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For other uses, see Barge (disambiguation).

A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. A boat is a Watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane on water and provide transport over it "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Canals are artificial channels for water There are two types of canals water conveyance canals which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water and Waterways Most barges are not self-propelled and need to be moved by tugboats towing or towboats pushing them. TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207 is a journal published three times per year by the TeX Users Group. A towboat is a Boat designed for pushing Barges Towboats are characterized by a square bow with steel knees for pushing and powerful engines Barges on canals (towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath) contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution but were outcompeted in the carriage of high value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail transport. A towpath is a Road or Trail on the bank of a River, Canal, or other inland waterway "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the The British Canal system of Water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom 's Industrial Revolution at a time when Roads "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation.

Modern use

Barges are still used today for low value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low. Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items; a typical barge measures 195 feet by 35 feet (59. 4 meters by 10. 6 meters), and can carry up to 1500 tons of cargo. As an example, on June 26, 2006, a 565 ton catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. In Petroleum geology and Chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic Molecules such as Kerogens or heavy Hydrocarbons The Tulsa Port of Catoosa is located near the city of Catoosa in Rogers County, just inside the municipal fenceline of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. While such parts are normally shipped in sections and assembled onsite, shipping the assembled unit reduces costs and does not rely on availability of construction labor at the site (which in this case is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina). Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States Such a large item is not practical to transport over land for any significant distance and will need to be transported only 40 miles overland to get from the port to the refinery.

Self propelled barges may be used as such when traveling downstream or upstream in placid waters and operated as an unpowered barge with the assistance of a tugboat when traveling upstream in faster waters. Canal barges are usually made for the particular canal in which they will operate.

Types of barges

On the Great British canal system, the term barge is used to describe a boat wider than a narrowboat. Thailand's Royal Barge Procession ( ''th'' กระบวนพยุหยาตราชลมารค ''RIT translit A trow was a type of Cargo Boat found in the past on the River Severn in England and used to transport goods A Thames sailing barge was a type of commercial Sailing boat common on the River Thames in London in the 19th century Tom Pudding was the name given to the Tub boats on the Aire and Calder Navigation, introduced in 1863 and used until 1985 which were a very efficient means of transferring A narrowboat or narrow boat is a Boat of a distinctive design made to fit the narrow Canals of England and Wales.

The people who move barges are often known as lightermen. Lightermen were workers who transferred goods between ships and quays aboard flat-bottomed Barges called lighters They were one of

In the U. S. deckhands perform the labor and are supervised by a leadman and or the mate. The Captain and Pilot steer the towboat. The towboat pushes one or more barges that are held together with rigging and is called collectively the tow. The crew live aboard the towboat as it travels along the inland river system and or the intracoastal waterways. These towboats travel between ports and are also called line haul boats.

Poles are used on barges to fend off the barge as it nears other vessels or a wharf, often called pike poles, and on shallow canals for example in the UK long punt poles are used to manoeuvre or propel the barge. This article concentrates on the history and development of punts and punting in England for other usages see Norfolk punt and the general disambiguation pages at Punt

Etymology

Barge is attested from 1300, from Old French barge, from Vulgar Latin barga. Old French was the Romance Dialect continuum spoken in territories which span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium Vulgar Latin (in Latin sermo vulgaris, "folk speech" is a Blanket term covering the popular Dialects and Sociolects of the Latin The word originally could refer to any small boat, the modern meaning arose around 1480. Bark "small ship" is attested from 1420, from Old French barque, from Vulgar Latin barca (400 AD). A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel History of the term The word barc appears to have come from Celtic languages The more precise meaning "three-masted ship" arose in the 17th century, and often takes the French spelling for disambiguation.

Both are probably derived from a Latin *barica, from Greek baris "Egyptian boat", ultimately from Coptic bari "small boat", hieroglyphic
and similar ba-y-r = "basket-shaped boat". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Coptic or Coptic Egyptian ( MetRemenkīmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt Hieroglyph ( Greek grc-Grek ἱερογλύφος " sacred carving " or hieroglyphics ( = grc-Grek τὰ ἱερογλυφικά [1]

By extension, the term "embark" literally means to board the kind of boat called a "barque".

The long poles used to manoeuver or propel a barge have given rise to the saying, "I wouldn't touch that (subject/thing) with a barge pole. " This is a variation on the phrase "I wouldn't touch that with a (insert length) pole. " It appears that the association with barge poles came after the phrase was in use. Modern usage uses a ten foot pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty foot pole[2], which is improbably long for operating a barge.

Images

A diesel powered barge hauling coal in the Louisville and Portland Canal, the only man-made portion of the Ohio River

Self-propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone

Barge filled with recycled paper, on the Hudson River in New York City

A gravel-laden barge pulled by a tugboat on the River Thames in London

Self-propelled barge in the port of IJmuiden in The Netherlands

The barge carrying the Space Shuttle external tank for STS-119 is towed to Port Canaveral, Florida

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Diesel or Diesel fuel (ˈdiːzəl in general is any Fuel used in Diesel engines The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum The Louisville and Portland Canal was a canal bypassing the Falls of the Ohio in the Ohio River near Louisville Kentucky. The Ohio River is the largest Tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207 is a journal published three times per year by the TeX Users Group. The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. IJmuiden is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland, the main town of the municipality of Velsen. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands NASA 's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System ( STS) is the Spacecraft currently used by the United States Port Canaveral is a major cruise and cargo Port located in Brevard County Florida. A narrowboat or narrow boat is a Boat of a distinctive design made to fit the narrow Canals of England and Wales. A Thames sailing barge was a type of commercial Sailing boat common on the River Thames in London in the 19th century Theodore Tugboat is a children's television show about a Tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends The Mobro 4000 is a Barge made famous in 1987 for hauling the same load of Trash along the east coast of North America from New York This article is based on a section of Fictional characters from the 1988 television series TUGS from the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine The canal boat Ross Barlow is a hybrid Hydrogen Barge, power-assisted by an Electric motor that gets its Electricity from Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City.

Dictionary

barge

-noun

  1. A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo
  2. A richly decorated ceremonial state vessel propelled by rowers for river processions
  3. A large flat-bottomed coastal trading vessel having a large spritsail and jib-headed topsail, a fore staysail and a very small mizen, and having leeboards instead of a keel
  4. One of the boats of a warship having fourteen oars
  5. The wooden disk in which bread or biscuit is placed on a mess table

-verb

  1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
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