(lighters aboard ship)

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• Lighter aboard ship — The lighter aboard ship (LASH) system refers to the practice of loading barges (lighters) aboard a larger vessel for transport. It was developed in response to a need to transport lighters, a type of unpowered barge, between inland waterways… …   Wikipedia

• Sevmorput — See also: Northern Sea Route Sevmorput in 2007 while docked at Atomflot, Murmansk alongside nuclear powered icebreaker NS Sibir (cropped away) Sevmorput (Севморпуть) is a Russian nuclear powered cargo ship with ice breaking abilities, one of only …   Wikipedia

• Lighter (barge) — For other uses, see Lighter (disambiguation) .A lighter is a type of flat bottomed barge used to transfer goods to and from moored ships. Lighters were traditionally unpowered and were moved and steered using long oars called sweeps , with their… …   Wikipedia

• lighter — lighter1 /luy teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that lights or ignites. 2. a mechanical device used in lighting cigarettes, cigars, or pipes for smoking. [1545 55; LIGHT1 + ER1] lighter2 /luy teuhr/, n. 1. a large, open, flat bottomed barge, used… …   Universalium

• LASH — Acronym for lighter aboard ship. This is a method of cargo handling in which cargo carrying barges (lighters) are lifted on and off ocean going ships by the ship s own crane, thus reducing to a minimum the need for port facilities …   Big dictionary of business and management

• lash — [1] The amount of free motion between two components (e.g., two gears). The British term is free play. also See backlash valvelash whiplash [2] Acronym for Lighter Aboard Ship : a ship designed to carry floating containers or lighters …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Edward Unwin — VC, CB, CMG (1864 ndash;19 April, 1950) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Unwin joined the merchant …   Wikipedia

• USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) — under way in 1919 Career (Germany) …   Wikipedia

• MS München — was a German LASH carrier of the Hapag Lloyd line that sank with all hands for unknown reasons in a severe storm in December 1978.The most accepted theory is that one or more freak waves hit the München and damaged her, so that she drifted for 33 …   Wikipedia

• Lightermen — Watermen s Hall (1778 80), by William Blackburn. Lightermen were workers who transferred goods between ships and quays, aboard flat bottomed barges called lighters in the Port of London. Contents …   Wikipedia

• SS America (1940) — The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America (carrying this name three different times during… …   Wikipedia