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Cargo ship
A cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year; they handle the bulk of international trade...

s past and present, which are freighters engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods. It includes ships which carry small numbers of passengers in addition to their primary freight cargo.

Note that ships with multiple names may be listed here under each name.

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Atlantic Causeway
Atlantic Causeway
The Atlantic Causeway was a container ship, operated by Cunard, and one of the merchant vessels requisitioned by the British government to support British forces in the Falklands War in 1982.-Pre-war:...
Atlantic Conveyor
Atlantic Conveyor
The Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War and sunk on 25 May 1982 after being hit by two Argentine Exocet missiles, killing 12 sailors...
Axel Mærsk
Axel Mærsk
The Axel Maersk is a Danish merchant ship. The container ship is part of the fleet of the Maersk Line. The container ship has a length of and a beam of...
MV Acavus
MV Acavus
MV Acavus was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana Class....
MV Adula
MV Adula
MV Adula was one of nine Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana class....
Akebono Maru
Akebono Maru
The Akebono Maru was a Japanese fishing trawler that capsized on January 5, 1982. The Mineral Management Service of Alaska reported she sank 50 miles north of the Adak and notes it at the top of its list of 'Alaska's Ten Worst Shipping LossesIn The Last 20 Years'...
MV Alexia
MV Alexia
MV Alexia was one of nine Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana class....
German tanker Altmark
German tanker Altmark
Altmark was a German oil tanker and supply vessel, one of five of a class built between 1937 and 1939. She is best known for her support of the German commerce raider, the "pocket battleship" and her subsequent involvement in the "Altmark Incident"....
MV Amastra
MV Amastra
MV Amastra was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana class....
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier , owned by Amoco, that ran aground on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.-Oil spill:Amoco Cadiz...
MV Ancylus
MV Ancylus
MV Ancylus was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana class....
USS Adhara (AK-71)
USS Adhara (AK-71)
USS Adhara was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named after the star Adhara in the constellation Canis Major, it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name....
USS Albireo (AK-90)
USS Albireo (AK-90)
The USS Albireo was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. It was the only ship of the Navy to have borne this name. It is named after Albireo, a star in the constellation of Cygnus....
USS Alderamin (AK-116)
USS Alderamin (AK-116)
USS Alderamin was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alderamin, the alpha star in constellation Cepheus. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.SS J. S...
USS Alkaid (AK-114)
USS Alkaid (AK-114)
USS Alkaid was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alkaid, the star in Big Dipper asterism or constellation Ursa Major. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.SS William G...
USS Alkes (AK-110)
USS Alkes (AK-110)
USS Alkes was an commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alkes, the alpha star in constellation Crater. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.SS Increase A...
USS Allegan (AK-225)
USS Allegan (AK-225)
USS Allegan was a commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone....
USS Allioth (AK-109)
USS Allioth (AK-109)
USS Allioth was a commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Alioth, the star in constellation Ursa Major...
USS Alnitah (AK-127)
USS Alnitah (AK-127)
The USS Alnitah was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named a spelling variation of the star Alnitak in the constellation Orion, it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name....
USS Aludra (AK-72)
USS Aludra (AK-72)
The USS Aludra was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Named after the star Aludra in the constellation Canis Major, it was the first ship of the Navy to bear this name....
SS American Victory
SS American Victory
SS American Victory is a Second World War Victory ship which has been preserved as a museum ship in Tampa, Florida. The ship is the main feature of the American Victory Ship & Museum, also known as the American Victory Mariners Memorial & Museum Ship.-History:Named after American University in...
MS Antenor (1957)
MS Antenor (1957)
MS Antenor was the fourth of five ships to bear the name. She was built in 1956 by Vickers Armstrong at Walker Naval Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne, England...
USS Appanoose (AK-226)
USS Appanoose (AK-226)
USS Appanoose was a Crater-class cargo ship in the United States Navy named for the Meskwaki chief Appanoose and Appanoose County, Iowa....
USS Ara (AK-136)
USS Ara (AK-136)
The SS Daniel Boone sailed from New York in January 1943 with a cargo of nearly 10 tons of high explosives. Welded and chained to the deck were two locomotives. It was Capt. Larz Neilson's first voyage as a master. He had been a ship's officer for American Hawaiian Steamship Co. since graduating...
Aranui 3
USS Arided (AK-73)
USS Arided (AK-73)
USS Arided , a Crater-class cargo ship, is the only ship of the United States Navy to have this name. She was named after Arided, the other name of Deneb, the alpha star of constellation Cygnus....
USS Arkab (AK-130)
USS Arkab (AK-130)
USS Arkab was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Arkab, the star in constellation Sagittarius...
SS Arthur M. Anderson
SS Arthur M. Anderson
The SS Arthur M. Anderson is a cargo ship of the laker type. It is famous for being the last ship to be in contact with the SS Edmund Fitzgerald . The Anderson was also the first rescue ship on the scene in a vain search for Fitzgerald survivors .- History :The SS Arthur M...
USS Ascella (AK-137)
USS Ascella (AK-137)
USS Ascella was an Crater-class cargo ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Ascella, a star in the constellation Sagittarius. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment to locations in the war zone.SS George C. Yount was laid down on 7...
MV Ascension
MV Ascension
MV Ascension is an American-flagged general cargo and container ship with a capacity of . Built in 1993, the ship was originally a Russian timber carrier...
Astron (ship)
Astron (ship)
The Astron is a shipwreck located off the coast of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. She was a Russian owned freighter built in France during 1957 and was 120 metres long....
USS Azimech (AK-124)
USS Azimech (AK-124)
USS Azimech was a commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II, named after Azimech, the other name of Spica, the brightest star in constellation Virgo...

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MV Baffin Strait (T-AK-W9519)
MV Baffin Strait (T-AK-W9519)
MV TransAtlantic is a U.S.-flagged container ship owned and operated by TransAtlantic Lines LLC. The long ship was built at Wuhu Shipyard in Wuhu, China in 1997 as Steamers Future...
SS Bandırma
SS Bandirma
SS Bandırma was an Ottoman mixed-freight ship, which became famous for her historical role in taking Mustafa Kemal Pasha from Constantinople to Samsun in May 1919 that marked the establishment of the Turkish national movement.-The ship:The steamer Bandırma, built 1878 in Paisley, Scotland, was a...
SS Bessemer Victory
SS Bessemer Victory
SS Bessemer Victory was one of 534 Victory ships built during World War II. Named for Bessemer, Alabama, an industrial city honoring Sir Henry Bessemer , she was one of 218 such ships that were named after American cities.Bessemer Victory was laid down on 28 May 1945 at Los Angeles, California by...
Biruinţa
MV Biscaglia
MV Biscaglia
Unarmed, the security guards attempted to repel the attackers for about 40 minutes by firing water cannon, zigzagging the skiff, and using a LRAD, a non-lethal weapon that fires focused sound beams producing excruciating pain. A distress signal was received at 0447 hours UTC by the International...
USS Bali (ID-2483)
USS Bali (ID-2483)
USS Bali was a large Dutch freighter seized in New York City by the U.S. Customs Service during World War I. She was assigned to the U.S. Navy and later the U.S. Army as a cargo ship to be used to carry military cargo to Allied forces in France. After a number of transatlantic voyages, she was...

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TSS Camito
TSS Camito
TSS Camito was a passenger-carrying banana boat of the Fyffes Line. At 8501.73 tons gross, 3878.90 tons nett, 448 feet long and with a cruising speed of 18 Knots, she was the second ship to bear the name.-History:...

, banana boat of Fyffes Line
Fyffes Line
Fyffes Line was the name given to the fleet of passenger-carrying banana boats owned and operated by the UK banana importer Elders & Fyffes Limited.-History:...

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CMA CGM Medea
CMA CGM Medea
CMA CGM Medea is a container ship, and among the largest in the world, though she can carry four thousand fewer containers than the largest, Emma Mærsk. The CMA CGM Medea was built in 2006.- Design :...
CMA CGM Thalassa
CMA CGM Thalassa
CMA CGM Thalassa is a container ship owned by Global Ship Lease and on long-term charter to the shipping line - CMA CGM. The ship delivered to the ship-operator on 30 December 2008...
CMA CGM Vela
CMA CGM Vela
CMA CGM Vela is a container ship operated by CMA CGM. The ship is owned by Reederei NSB and operated by CMA CGM. The CMA CGM Vela was finished in 2008 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Ltd and delivered to the owner on 19th October 2008...
COSCO Guangzhou
COSCO Guangzhou
COSCO Guangzhou is a container ship, and one of the largest currently in service. She was built for Cosco Ship Management in 2006 at the company's shipyards. The ship has capacity for 9,500 TEU and mostly sails between the ports in China, India and Japan and those in Western Europe and the United...
Colombo Express
Colombo Express
Colombo Express is one of the largest container ships in the world. When launched in 2005, she was claimed by her owner to be the world's largest container ship....
Costa Allegra
Costa Allegra
MS Costa Allegra is a cruise ship owned and operated by the Italy-based Costa Cruises. She was built in 1969 by the Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard in Turku, Finland as the container ship MS Annie Johnson for the Sweden-based Rederi AB Nordstjernan...
MV Craigantlet
MV Craigantlet
MV Craigantlet was a British container ship that ran aground on 26 February 1982 at Killantringan Lighthouse in Portamaggie Bay, Wigtownshire in southwestern Scotland. The 800 ton cargo ship was bound to Liverpool from Belfast at the time...
MV Cristina A
MV Cristina A
The MV Cristina A. is a full container ship owned by the Istanbul, Turkey based Limar Liman ve Gemi Isletmeleri A.S. and operated by the Delmas Shipping Co. in Le Havre, France, sailing under Turkish flag. Having a capacity of 1,604 nominal teus or 1,174 teus 14TH, she is in service since June 8,...

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Edith Mærsk
Edith Mærsk
Edith Maersk is a container ship and the sister ship of Emma Maersk, thus the world's largest cargo ship. It has capacity for 13,500 containers, in spite of calculations from Maersk Line company, that the ship has only 11,000 TEUs capacity. It can reach up to 15,200 TEUs according to specialists.-...

- container ship for Maersk Line
Emma Maersk - container ship for Maersk Line
Estelle Maersk
Estelle Maersk
Estelle Mærsk is a container ship owned and run by the Mærsk Line. She was, and still is, as of 2009, one of the eight largest container ships ever built by terms of gross tonnage. Estelle Mærsk has a capacity of 11,000 twenty-foot equivalent units , including around 1,000 reefer containers,...

- container ship for Maersk Line
MOL Enterprise
MOL Enterprise
The MOL Enterprise is a Panamax-type container ship owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, a Japanese transport company that cover major worldwide services/destinations....

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MV Gadila
MV Gadila
MV Gadila was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana class....
MV Golden Nori
MV Golden Nori
The ' is a Japanese chemical tanker that was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia on 28 October 2007. In news reports, she has at times been mistakenly referred to as the Golden Nory and Golden Mori....
TSS Golfito
TSS Golfito
TSS Golfito was a passenger-carrying banana boat of the Fyffes Line. She was 8687 tons and long.-History:She was built in 1949 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow and scrapped at Faslane in 1972.-Accommodation:...

, banana boat of Fyffes Line
Fyffes Line
Fyffes Line was the name given to the fleet of passenger-carrying banana boats owned and operated by the UK banana importer Elders & Fyffes Limited.-History:...

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Gudrun Mærsk
Gudrun Mærsk
The Gudrun Maersk is a very large container ship, capable of carrying 8,500 TEU and with a deadweight of 115,700 metric tons. The ship was built in 2005 and is operated by the Maersk Line.- Design :...

- container ship for Maersk Line

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Hansa Carrier
Hansa Carrier
The Hansa Carrier is a container ship. On 27 May 1990, en route from Korea to the United States, the ship encountered a storm which caused the loss of twenty-one 40-foot cargo containers south of the Alaska Peninsula, near...
MV Harpa
MV Harpa
MV Harpa was an oil tanker of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and was in service with the British Merchant Navy during World War II.-Bombing:...
Houston Express
Houston Express
The Houston Express is a cargo ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd company out of Hamburg, Germany and was completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8400 containers at any one time. The Deadweight Tonnage is 107,000 metric tons and the maximum speed of this ship is . The ship is 332...

- container ship for Hapag-Lloyd line
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, which in turn owns other subsidiaries such as Hapag-Lloyd Ships and a cruise line, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises which is now integrated into TUI AG, Hanover...
Histria Agata
Histria Agata
Histria Agata is a floating storage and offloading unit owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.-History:...
Histria Azure
Histria Azure
Histria Azure is a floating storage and offloading unit owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Majuro, Marshall Islands.-History:...
Histria Coral
Histria Coral
Histria Coral is a floating storage and offloading unit owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.-History:...
Hudson Cavalier

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MCP Altona
MCP Altona
The MCP Altona is a 629 TEU container vessel built by Shandong Huangai Shibuilding Co in 2007. On December 23, 2010 while enroute from the Port of Vancouver, Canada, to Zhanjiang, China, the ship ran into rough weather between Hawaii and Midway Islands, causing some containers of uranium...
MSC Carmen
MSC Carmen
The MS MSC Carmen is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the seventh ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered.The ship has a container capacity of...
MSC Carouge
MSC Carouge
The MS MSC Carouge is a container ship built in 2007 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the third ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered....
MSC Cordoba
MSC Cordoba
The MS MSC Cordoba is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the sixth ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered....
MSC Geneva
MSC Geneva
The MS MSC Geneva is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the first ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered....
MSC Leigh
MSC Leigh
The MS MSC Leigh is a container ship built in 2006 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the second ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered....
MSC Monterey
MSC Monterey
The MS MSC Monterey is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the fifth ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered.The ship has a container capacity of...
MSC Napoli
MSC Napoli
MSC Napoli was a United Kingdom-flagged container ship that was deliberately broken up by salvors after she ran into difficulty in the English Channel on 18 January 2007.-Early history:...
MSC Nuria
MSC Nuria
The MS MSC Nuria is a container ship built in 2008 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the largest container ship ever constructed in Romania....
MSC Rosaria
MSC Rosaria
The MS MSC Rosaria is a container ship built in 2007 by the Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries in Mangalia, Romania and currently operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A.. She is the fourth ship delivered to the Swiss company in a series of 12 ordered.The ship has a container capacity of...
MSC Sabrina
MSC Sabrina
MSC Sabrina is a container ship built in South Korea in 1989 and registered in Panama. She is managed by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A....
MV Mairangi Bay
MV Mairangi Bay
The mv Mairangi Bay was a container ship owned by Overseas Containers Limited .- History :Mairangi Bay was launched and delivered to OCL in 1978, and was scrapped in 2002 in China. The ship was one of two identical sisters built by Bremer Vulkan shipyard in West Germany, the other being the MV...
MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher (T-AK-4396)
MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher (T-AK-4396)
MV Maj. Bernard F. Fisher is a US Military Sealift Command vessel named for US Air Force Medal of Honor recipient Bernard F. Fisher. The vessel is a civilian-owned and operated container ship under contract to deliver pre-positioned supplies and equipment under the Military Sealift Command's...
SS Mayagüez
SS Mayagüez
SS Mayaguez was a U.S.-flagged container ship that attained notoriety for its 12 May 1975 seizure by Khmer Rouge forces of Cambodia, which resulted in a confrontation with the United States at the close of the Vietnam War....
Monchegorsk (ship)
Monchegorsk (ship)
MV Monchegorsk was an SA-15 class cargo ship built by Wärtsilä in Turku, Finland, in 1983. Named after a town of the same name, the freighter was the tenth ship of a series of 19 icebreaking multipurpose arctic freighters built by Wärtsilä and Valmet for the Soviet Union for year-round service in...
MV Empire MacCabe
MV Empire MacCabe
MV Empire MacCabe was an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier or MAC ship.MV Empire MacCabe was built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in December 1943, however only her air crew and the necessary maintenance...
MV Empire MacColl
MV Empire MacColl
MV Empire MacColl was an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier ship.MV Empire MacColl was built by Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in November 1943, however only her air crew and the necessary maintenance...
MV Empire MacKay
MV Empire MacKay
MV Empire MacKay was an oil tanker constructed with rudimentary aircraft handling facilities as a merchant aircraft carrier .MV Empire MacKay was built by Harland and Wolff, Govan under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in October 1943, however only her air...
MV Empire MacMahon
MV Empire MacMahon
MV Empire MacMahon was an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier or MAC ship.MV Empire MacMahon was built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in December 1943, however only her air crew and the necessary maintenance...
MV Erika
MT Haven
MV DenDen
MV DenDen
The MV DenDen was an oil tanker that could carry 7,000 metric tons of furnace oil. The ship capsized and sank in June 2007, with the loss of seven lives....
MV Macoma
MV Macoma
MV Macoma was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier . The group is collectively known as the Rapana Class....
Maritime Jewel
Maritime Jewel
The Maritime Jewel is a double hull oil tanker built in 2000; its length is and its width is . It was known as the Limburg until 2003.-Bombing:...

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Savannah Express
Savannah Express
Savannah Express is a container ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd company out of Hamburg, Germany. She was completed in 2005. The ship is capable of transporting up to 8401 TEUs at any one time. The deadweight tonnage is 107,000 metric tons and the maximum speed of this ship is 25 knots. The ship...
MV Southern Lily
MV Southern Lily
MV Southern Lily is a ship of the Pacific Direct Line, which is a subsidiary of PDL International PTE Ltd, a Singapore-based company.The Southern Lily operates a regular service carrying containers and hold cargo on the route between New Zealand and Tonga, and Samoa ....
MV Star Osakana
MV Star Osakana
MV Star Osakana is a Container/Cargo Bulker....
SS Fredericksburg (T5)
SS Fredericksburg (T5)
SS Fredericksburg was a single-hulled T5-S-12b oil tanker, originally named the Eagle Courier. The ship was built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi as hull number 1030 and delivered on 10 October 1958. The ship was scrapped in Chittagong, Bangladesh on 16 April 2004.From delivery...
Salem (supertanker)
Salem (supertanker)
Salem was a supertanker which was scuttled off the coast of Guinea on 17 January 1980, after secretly unloading 192,000 tons of oil in Durban, South Africa. The oil was delivered in breach of the South African oil embargo, and the ship was scuttled to fraudulently claim insurance....
MV Sea Empress
Sea Star (tanker)
Sea Star (tanker)
Sea Star was a supertanker that spilled some 115,000 tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Oman on December 19, 1972, after colliding with the Brazilian tanker Horta Barbosa. After the collision both vessels caught fire and were abandoned by their crews...
Seabulk Pride
Seabulk Pride
The Seabulk Pride, operated by Seabulk Tankers of Ft. Lauderdale,FL, was constructed in 1998 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. She was built as part of a series of new double hulled tankers serving the domestic market....
Shuttle tanker
Shuttle tanker
A shuttle tanker is a ship designed for oil transport from an off-shore oil field. It is equipped with off-loading equipment compatible with the oil field in question...
MT Sidsel Knutsen
MT Sidsel Knutsen
-Design:The Sidsel Knutsen is long and is owned and operated by Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping. The Sidsel Knutsen is designed for the shipping of oil products, including gasoline, plain crude oil, and biodiesel. The Sidsel Knutsen also has a sistership, the Turid Knutsen, which is also a tanker, and...
MV Sirius Star
MV Sirius Star
MV Sirius Star is an oil tanker owned and operated by Vela International Marine. With a length overall of and a capacity of of crude oil, the ship is classified as a very large crude carrier or VLCC. Vela is based in the United Arab Emirates and is a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian state oil...
Sitakund
Sitakund
Sitakund was a Norwegian motor oil tanker owned by Tschudi & Eitzen was sailing from Wilhelmshaven to Libya on 20 October 1968, when three explosions occurred, one of which tore a large hole in the side of the vessel. Sitakund burst into flames...
Star Clipper
Star Clipper
Star Clipper was a Norwegian-owned tanker built by Kockums in Malmö, Sweden in 1968. In 1981 she was sold and changed name to Star Lanao. She was scrapped in India in 1986.-Almö Bridge Disaster:...
Mærsk Stralsund
MV Stolt Strength
MV Stolt Strength
The MV Stolt Strength is a Philippines-flagged ship, managed by a Panamanian company. It was hijacked by Somali pirates off the Gulf of Aden on November 10, 2008. The chemical tanker, carrying phosphoric acid and 21 Filipino crewmembers aboard, was attacked by armed men carrying automatic rifles...
MS Stolt Surf
MS Stolt Surf
The MS Stolt Surf was a Chemical tanker, operated by Stolt-Nielsen Inc. She achieved a measure of infamy when she was struck and damaged by a rogue wave, an event that was photographed by a crew member and subsequently added to the ongoing debate over the possibility of such waves out in the deep...
MT Stolt Valor
MT Stolt Valor
The MT Stolt Valor is a Hong Kong-flagged ship that was hijacked while in the Designated Safety Corridor within the Gulf of Aden, approximately away from the coast of Yemen, while heading from the United States south through the Gulf towards Asia. After the ship passed through the Suez Canal, it...

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MV Tampa
MV Tampa
MV Tampa is a roll-on/roll-off container ship completed in 1984 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in South Korea for the Norway based firm, Wilhelmsen Lines Shipowning.-Tampa affair:...
Thomas W. Lawson (ship)
Thomas W. Lawson (ship)
The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and the largest pure sailing...
Torben Spirit
Torben Spirit
The Torben Spirit is an Aframax oil tanker. She was built in 1994 at the Onomichi shipyard in Japan. She is registered in the Bahamian port of Nassau....
Torrey Canyon
Torrey Canyon
The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster...
Truelove (ship)

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Exxon Valdez
Exxon Valdez
Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean is an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska...
Vikartindur
Vikartindur
MV Vikartindur was a German registered 8,633 ton container ship that became stranded on a beach on the south coast of Iceland on March 5, 1997 while en route from Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Isles, to Reykjavík....
MV Virginian (T-AK 9205)

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