Tanker may refer to:
Transportation
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Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful e ...
er, a tank crewman (US)
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Tanker (ship)
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable o ...
, a ship designed to carry bulk liquids
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Chemical tanker
A chemical tanker is a type of tanker ship designed to transport chemicals in bulk. As defined in MARPOL Annex II, chemical tanker means a ship constructed or adapted for carrying in bulk any liquid product listed in chapter 17 of the Internat ...
, a type of tanker designed to transport chemicals in bulk
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Oil tanker
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined c ...
, also known as a petroleum tanker
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LNG carrier
An LNG carrier is a tank ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas (LNG).
History
The first LNG carrier '' Methane Pioneer'' () carrying , classed by Bureau Veritas, left the Calcasieu River on the Louisiana Gulf coast on 25 Januar ...
, a ship designed for transporting liquefied natural gas
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Tank car
A tank car (International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities.
History
Timeline
The following major events occurred in the ...
, a railroad freight car designed for carrying bulk liquids
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Tank truck
A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars, which are also desig ...
, a heavy road vehicle designed for carrying bulk liquids
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Fire tanker, a firefighting vehicle used to carry large amounts of water to a fire
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Air tanker, an aircraft used in
Aerial firefighting
Aerial may refer to:
Music
* ''Aerial'' (album), by Kate Bush
* ''Aerials'' (song), from the album ''Toxicity'' by System of a Down
Bands
* Aerial (Canadian band)
*Aerial (Scottish band)
*Aerial (Swedish band)
Performance art
*Aerial silk, ...
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Tanker (aircraft)
Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring aviation fuel from one aircraft (the tanker) to another (the receiver) while both aircraft ar ...
, an aircraft designed for in-flight refueling
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Tanker 910, a specific aircraft used to drop water or retardant on fires in California
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Tanker Pacific
Tanker Pacific is the largest privately owned tanking fleet globally. Founded in 1989, it is headquartered in Singapore and owned by London-based Israeli businessman Idan Ofer. The company was under US sanctions for docking at Iranian ports from 20 ...
, a Singapore-based shipping company
Other
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André Tanker
André Michael Tanker (25 September 1941 – 28 February 2003) was a Trinidad and Tobago musician and composer.
Background and career
Born in Woodbrook, Port of Spain, Tanker was considered one of the most original musicians that his country p ...
(1941–2003), Trinidadian musician and composer
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''Tanker'' (album), a 1988 album by Bailter Space
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Tanker boot
Tanker may refer to:
Transportation
* Tanker, a tank crewman (US)
* Tanker (ship), a ship designed to carry bulk liquids
** Chemical tanker, a type of tanker designed to transport chemicals in bulk
** Oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanke ...
, a laceless military boot
* Tanker, titular hippopotamus character of the ''
Tinker and Tanker
''Tinker and Tanker'' is a children's book series written and illustrated by Richard Scarry, and published in the U.S. by Doubleday from 1960 to 1963.
Overview
The title characters live in a place called Tootletown. Upon the first book's relea ...
'' book series
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''Tankers'' (film), a 2018 Russian war film
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Tanker Brewery, an Estonian brewery
See also
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