A motor ship or motor vessel is a ship propelled by an internal combustion engine, usually a diesel engine. The names of motor ships are often prefixed...

Mail Motor Vessel and RMMS for Royal Mail Motor Ship, were used for a period when RMS was restricted to steam-ships. Motor Vessel and Motor Ship indicated...

vessel's mode of propulsion, such as "MV" (motor vessel), "SS" (screw steamer; often cited as "steam ship"), or "PS" (paddle steamer). These days, general...

operations Motor ship or motor vessel A vessel powered by a non-steam engine, typically diesel. Ship prefix MS or MV Nef A large medieval sailing ship Oil Tanker...

Sierra is a historic motor ship used to transport lumber. Built in 1916, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Sierra was built...

ship prefix being an abbreviation of the ship class, for example "MS" (motor ship) or "SV" (sailing vessel), making it easier to distinguish a ship name...

successful motor ship, the Etzel, and from then on the fleet became increasingly motorized. For the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939 [de], four sister motor ships...

MFV = Motor Fishing Vessel MS = Motorship MSV = Motor Stand-by Vessel MT = Motor Tanker or Motor Tug Boat MV = Motor/Merchant Vessel MY = Motor Yacht...

example: speed of sound=340 m/s. M/S or m/s may also refer to: Motor ship, also MS, MV, M/V, or motor vessel, a maritime prefix M/S stereo coding (Mid/Side stereo...

propeller shaft - which would have made Oceanic the first quadruple-screw motor ship. Despite construction on Oceanic slowing down, construction of the smaller...