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Peterson Builders Incorporated (PBI) was an American ship building company that constructed small to medium, naval and commercial ships and boats. The company mainly operated from a shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Spare parts and logistics were managed from Virginia Beach, Virginia and a ship repair operation in Ingleside, Texas made up ...
The Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, nicknamed "Old Shaky", is an American heavy-lift cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.. The C-124 was the primary heavy-lift transport for United States Air Force (USAF) Military Air Transport Service (MATS) during the 1950s and early 1960s, until the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter entered service.
A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be transported by normal ships. They are of two types: Semi-submersible ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's deck and cargo raised above the ...
The CH-53 Sea Stallion (Sikorsky S-65) is an American family of heavy-lift transport helicopters designed and built by the American manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft.The Sea Stallion was originally developed in response to a request from the United States Navy's Bureau of Naval Weapons made in March 1962 for a replacement for the Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave helicopters flown by the United States Marine ...
LCTs and LCMs land supplies on the beach west of Saint-Raphaël on 20 August 1944. Matted ramp in foreground is for DUKWs. Logistics played a key role in the success of Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France during World War II that commenced with the US Seventh Army landings on the French Riviera on 15 August 1944.
The SS Cape Mohican (T-AKR-5065) is a steam turbine powered heavy-lift Seabee barge carrier, one of two ships of her type in the Military Sealift Command 's Ready Reserve Force . Cape Mohican was activated for service during Desert Storm, and has performed various transportation duties over the years. She was berthed at Port of Oakland ...
The Oculina in Riviera Beach would be near Nautilus 220 in Lake Park by the same deveoper. No one would confuse it with its French namesake but our county’s Riviera Beach is on the verge of a ...
MV Virginian (T-AK 9205), formerly named the MV Strong Virginian (T-AKR-9205), is a combination container, heavy lift, and roll-on/roll-off ship. Owned and operated by Sealift Incorporated of Oyster Bay, New York, the ship is one of seventeen container—roll-on/roll-off ships in use by the Military Sealift Command, and one of 28 ships assigned to that organization's Sealift Program Office.