Ships built to carry liquid and dry cargo in bulk, including oil tankers, liquefied gas carriers, colliers and bulk carriers. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship a tanker, bulk carrier, collier or gas carrier. It excludes container ships and general cargo ships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Bulk Carrier
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A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, typically grain, coal, ore, forest products, steel coils, or cement, in its cargo holds.
Oil tanker, Wikipedia
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An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.
LNG carrier, Wikipedia
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An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Collier (ship), Wikipedia
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A collier is a bulk cargo ship designed or used to carry coal. Early evidence of coal being transported by sea includes use of coal in London in 1306.
Seawise Giant (Wikipedia)
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TT Seawise Giant-formerly Oppama; later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, and Mont-was a ULCC supertanker and the longest self-propelled ship ever built.
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