Ice cream barge
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"Ice cream barge" is the colloquial term for a BRL. BRLs were towed vessels employed by the United States Navy in the Pacific theater of World War II to store frozen and refrigerated foodstuffs. They
A 1945 advertisement for the National Dairy Products Corporation describing the ice cream barge
USS Mizar (AF-12)
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USS Mizar was the United Fruit Company fruit, mail and passenger liner Quirigua that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II.
Ice cream barge
…in The Atlantic similarly reported survivors describing sailors breaking into freezers and scooping ice cream into helmets during the abandonment. USS Mizar (AF-12), a class of converted civilian refrigerated food carriers also used by the US Navy Bovbjerg, R. V. (2004). Steaming as Before. G - Reference, Information…
USS Mizar departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, 8 February 1946
Quirigua at Brewer Ship Yard, Staten Island, N.Y. to be converted, 6 June 1941.