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- Dracone_Barge abstract "A Dracone Barge is a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship. One large current example of the type has a capacity of 935 cubic metres (4.23m diameter, 91m long) while weighing only 6.5 tonnes empty.The Dracone Barge was invented in 1956 by Professor William Hawthorne as a new type of oil tanker. The intent was to create an improved transport technology: the long tube can be pulled by a lower powered vessel than the equivalent tanker, the cargo can be handed off at the destination very quickly, and incurs no drag cost when empty (because it can easily be taken aboard), as compared to the similar unladen to laden drag of the rigid-hulled tanker of equivalent capacity.The common modern use (described in a patent application filed by BP in 1972 in combination with capture booms) is in the clean-up of petroleum spills or pollution slicks, where any small and manouevrable vessel (e.g. a harbour tug) with pumping gear mounted on it can gather up a much larger volume of liquid than it can carry by pumping it promptly back over the side into a tanker or Dracone Barge. A secondary, but related use, is the offloading of bilgewater from large ships that must be treated (at a shore-side facility) and not dumped directly into the sea. The vessels were given the name \"dracone\" as it was \"the nearest word in Greek for a mythical monster such as a sea serpent.\" However, one year earlier Frank Herbert wrote his first novel The Dragon in the Sea about submarines towing large bags to carry oil, and other sources say the naming was an \"overt acknowledgment of the source of his idea\". While being towed by a vessel, they display only one all round light placed at their stern so that it can be seen by other vessels and risk of collision can be reduced.".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageID "19448760".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageLength "3753".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageOutDegree "9".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageRevisionID "690774468".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink BP.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Bilgewater.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ship_types.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Flexible_barge.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Herbert.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Petroleum.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink The_Dragon_in_the_Sea.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink Tugboat.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLink William_Hawthorne.
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dracone Barge".
- Dracone_Barge wikiPageWikiLinkText "dracones".
- Dracone_Barge subject Category:Ship_types.
- Dracone_Barge hypernym Tube.
- Dracone_Barge type AnatomicalStructure.
- Dracone_Barge type Ship.
- Dracone_Barge type Redirect.
- Dracone_Barge type Ship.
- Dracone_Barge type Vessel.
- Dracone_Barge comment "A Dracone Barge is a large flexible watertight tube intended to carry a liquid cargo while towed mostly-submerged behind a ship. One large current example of the type has a capacity of 935 cubic metres (4.23m diameter, 91m long) while weighing only 6.5 tonnes empty.The Dracone Barge was invented in 1956 by Professor William Hawthorne as a new type of oil tanker.".
- Dracone_Barge label "Dracone Barge".
- Dracone_Barge sameAs Q5304648.
- Dracone_Barge sameAs m.04n44z4.
- Dracone_Barge sameAs Q5304648.
- Dracone_Barge wasDerivedFrom Dracone_Barge?oldid=690774468.
- Dracone_Barge isPrimaryTopicOf Dracone_Barge.