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  • The setup is simple: an Imperial prison barge comes into contact with a deserted star destroyer and the barge's occupants (guards and prisoners alike) become infected with a plague that turns them into zombies.

    REVIEW: Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber 2009

  • The barge's flat steel structure allows it to hold 10,000 tons of water, and its shallow draft will let it dock close to the plant, unlike an oil tanker, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a senior regulator at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

    New Arms in Reactor Fight: Mega-Barge, Sticky Resin Andrew Morse 2011

  • Officials said six of the 15 passengers were rescued with the help of the barge's crew and another swam to safety as the boat sank quickly.

    Boat Sinks in Moscow, Killing Nine Richard Boudreaux 2011

  • Dropping his massive head, Heracles gives up his quest for the perfect wave, suspecting his coordinates are off once again, and pulls his powerful arms against the Hudson's currents to light out across a Jersey garbage barge's wake.

    Manhattan, Sunday Morning JP Reese 2011

  • Strong currents were blamed for knocking the barge's haul -- a fuel tank -- overboard.

    Periscope 2008

  • At first, I thought the rowers must have misjudged the current as they swung past the barge's stern.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • At first, I thought the rowers must have misjudged the current as they swung past the barge's stern.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • If he sent any of his men it would be the same, but then he thought of Luis and he summoned the barber, helping him up over the barge's heavy gunwale.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • There could be a question, although unlikely, of an unconscious captain or, you know, of the fishing vessel, and basically kind of unavoidable by the barge's path.

    CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2002 2002

  • Now, what's going to be important is to actually go back and listen to the recordings, if they exist, of the communications of the barge's captain who may have called for distress.

    CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2002 2002

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