Boats & ships

Boats & ships

Of or relating to transportation vessels that can travel over water.

Industry: Transportation

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Prinzessin Victoria Luise

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A German passenger ship of the Hamburg-America Line of some 4,409 gross register tonnes (GRT). She is credited with having been the first purpose-built cruise ship. Launched on June 29, 1900 she ...

A cruise ship owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, the lead ship of Fantasy class cruise ships. She is the currently the oldest ship in the Carnival fleet. Carnival Fantasy entered service in 1990 and is ...

Allure of the Seas

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A cruise ship owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. Together with her sister ship, Oasis of the Seas, she holds the record for the largest passenger ship ever constructed, although ...

Shuttle tanker

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An oil tanker which makes regular round trips between a producing field and an onshore terminal or refinery.

Standby boat

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A boat (often a converted fishing boat) which maintains permanent station near an offshore structure in order to provide support facilities in an emergency.

Ultra-large crude carrier (ulcc)

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An extremely large ocean-going tanker of over 300,000 metric tonnes deadweight used to transport crude oil from its source to a transhipment storage facility or directly to a refinery .