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 engin ...
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 oils, ...
, 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 crud ...
, 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 January ...
, 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 t ...
, 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 design ...
, a heavy road vehicle designed for carrying bulk liquids
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Fire tanker
A water tender is a type of firefighting apparatus that specialises in the transport of water from a water source to a fire scene.[Air tanker
The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases, known collectively as air, retained by Gravity of Earth, Earth's gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmosphere. The atmosphere of Earth protects life on Earth by creating Atmo ...]
, 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 sil ...
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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 a ...
, an aircraft designed for in-flight refueling
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Tanker 910
The DC-10 Air Tanker is a series of American wide-body jet air tankers, which have been in service as an aerial firefighting unit since 2006. The aircraft, operated by the joint technical venture 10 Tanker Air Carrier, are converted wide body ...
, 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 2 ...
, 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 pr ...
(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
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, 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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