The ship was pulled free tonight after workers finished pumping her 143,000 gallons of fuel onto a waiting tank barge.

This category of vessel includes tank ships and tank barges.

The city's ocean tank barges take the sludge 106 miles offshore and dump it outside the Continental Shelf.

While tank barges can be cleaned in port, shipboard tanks are generally cleaned at sea.

By 1871 the Pennsylvania oil fields were making limited use of oil tank barges and cylindrical railroad tank-cars similar to those in use today.

It was converted into a tank barge in 1921 and was donated to the Maritiman marine museum by a scrapping shipyard after being retired from service.

Virtually no change to the current Space Shuttle infrastructure, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the External Tank barge to the launch pads is required.

A tank barge operating without a valid permit sank in the Kill van Kull yesterday morning, spilling as much as 50,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil, Coast Guard officials said.

A tank barge traveling on the Ohio River has spilled up to 8,000 gallons of a toxic liquid after hitting a submerged concrete lock wall, the United States Coast Guard said.

Until recently, this area was relatively un-impacted by oil and yet they needed crane barges, skimmers, tugs, tank barges, and miles of boom standing by for the eventual containment and cleanup.

Globs of oil believed to have leaked from a 350-foot-long tank barge being towed across Long Island Sound washed up along a 20-mile stretch of Long Island's North Shore today, the authorities said.

The bow and midbody from Abiqua were towed to the Bethlehem Steel Co., at Beaumont, Tex., and converted into a tank barge, which was renamed Tide Mar XIX.

The North Cape oil spill occurred when the tank barge North Cape and the tug Scandia grounded on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island in the United States.

Lieutenant Carroll said the substance was believed to have leaked from the tank barge Rhode Island as it was being towed near New Haven on March 20 by Moran Towing Corporation, whose subsidiary owns the vessel.

Globs of oil continued to wash up along a 25-mile stretch of Long Island's North Shore yesterday and cleanup efforts were expected to intensify today following a spill that apparently originated with a tank barge in Long Island Sound.

It installed containment walls to protect the Shooter's Island bird sanctuary, hours after the spill of 150 gallons of oil during a cargo transfer from the tank barge Josephine Gellatly to the motor vessel Brasilia, said Coast Guard spokeswoman Martha LaGuardia.

Under the name Gunderson Marine LLC, the Portland, Oregon, United States plant manufactures ocean-going conventional deck barges, double-hull tank barges, railcar/deck barges, barges for aggregates and other heavy industrial products and ocean-going dump barges.

Today Rix Shipping Ltd is based at the head office of parent firm, J.R. Rix & Sons Ltd, in Spyvee Street, Hull, and owns and operates a fleet of estuarial tank barges, coastal tankers and high speed crew transfer workboats.