Ice cream barge
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ice-cream-barge-189-7723494
title:
Ice cream barge
text:
An ice cream barge was a vessel employed by the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of World War II to produce ice cream in large quantities to be provisioned to sailors and U.S. Marines. The craft, a concrete barge acquired from the U.S. Army and worth one million dollars, was able to create 10 US gallons (38 L) of ice cream every seven minutes, or approximately 500 US gal (1,900 L) per shift, and could store 2,000 US gal (7,600 L). It was employed in the USN's Western Pacific area of ope
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encyclopedia
description:
Frozen dessert ship
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_barge
date created:
2018-06-23T21:01:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T09:31:10Z
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