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100 Gun Admiralty Netlayer USE : FIRST RATE USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL

24 Gun Ship Admiralty Netlayer USE : SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : NET LAYER

30 Gun Ship Admiralty Oiler USE : SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL

32 Gun Ship Admiralty Oiler USE : FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : OILER

36 Gun Ship Admiralty Trawler USE : FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : TRAWLER

44 Gun Ship Admiralty Trawler USE : FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL

4 Masted Ship Admiralty Tug USE : FULL RIGGED SHIP USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL

5 Masted Admiralty Tug USE : SCHOONER USE : TUG

5 Masted Ship ADMIRALTY VESSEL USE : FULL RIGGED SHIP UF : Admiralty UF : Admiralty Drifter 64 Gun Ship UF : Admiralty Lighter USE : FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF : Admiralty Netlayer UF : Admiralty Oiler 70 Gun Ship UF : Admiralty Trawler USE : THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF : Admiralty Tug UF : Admiralty 72 Gun Ship BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : Any vessel which has been hired or impressed for use USE : THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE by the Admiralty.

74 Gun Ship Admiralty Whaler USE : THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL

90 Gun Ship Admiralty Whaler USE : SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE : WHALER

A Class ADVICE USE : SUBMARINE BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : A small, fast boat used for carrying orders between Admiralty Collier vessels. USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL Admiralty Collier BT : USE : COLLIER RT : VESSEL SN : A major warship equipped with a clear flat to Admiralty Drifter provide a landing and taking off place for aircraft. USE : DRIFTER AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL Admiralty Drifter BT : MARITIME CRAFT USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL NT : CATAPULT RT : AIRCRAFT CARRIER Admiralty Lighter RT : SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER USE : LIGHTER SN : A vessel fitted with a catapult for launching an aircraft.

Admiralty Lighter AMMUNITION USE : ADMIRALTY VESSEL BT : BARGE SN : Shallow draft vessel used to carry ammunition. SN : A vessel used as a platform for flying a barrage balloon AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE from. BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : Vehicle either adapted, or purpose-built, to operate on Basilisk Class both land and sea, for example a tank or DUKW. USE : DESTROYER

ANTI AIRCRAFT VESSEL BT : WARSHIP BT : WARSHIP SN : A vessel (often small obsolete or pleasure SN : A capital warship lightly armoured but with the same gun steamers) equipped with batteries of anti aircraft guns as its armament and stem turbine propulsion as a main armament. .

ANTI SUBMARINE VESSEL BATTLESHIP BT : ESCORT VESSEL UF : First Class Battleship SN : A small warship (often adapted from a trawler or drifter) UF : Orion Class Battleship used to hunt enemy . BT : WARSHIP NT : DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP ARMED CARGO VESSEL SN : A capital warship, often steam driven, heavily armoured BT : CARGO VESSEL with armament of large calibre guns deployed in turrets. SN : A vessel used for carrying cargoes, fitted with defensive . Use with specific type and form where known. BT : SAILING VESSEL Ascot Class SN : A small coastal vessel peculiar to , USE : MINESWEEPER rigged.

Auxiliary Minesweeper B Class USE : MINESWEEPER USE : MOTOR LAUNCH

Auxiliary Mooring Vessel B Class Submarine USE : MOORING VESSEL USE : SUBMARINE

Auxiliary Trawler BEETLE UNIT USE : TRAWLER BT : WHALE UNIT SN : Concrete or steel pontoons that supported the Whale BANKER piers. They were moored in position using wires attsched to BT : Kite anchors. SN : A fishing vessel employed exclusively on the Grand Banks . BILLYBOY BT : SAILING VESSEL BARGE SN : Single masted east coast trading vessel, rigged or UF : Roads Barge single masted. UF : Stumpsail Barge UF : Swimhead Barge BLOCK SHIP UF : Barge BT : MARITIME CRAFT BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A or obsolete vessel filled with or similar NT : AMMUNITION BARGE material and scuttled to block an entrance to a or NT : BARGE anchorage, usually as a defensive measure. NT : NT : MOORING BUOY LIFTER BARGE Boat NT : MUD BARGE USE : CRAFT NT : PILE DRIVING BARGE NT : REFUGE BARGE BOEIER NT : BARGE UF : Boier NT : TANK BARGE BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Shallow draft cargo vessel, often broad beamed and flat SN : A -like sailing vessel whose shallow draught bottomed, powered by engine and or . enables it to navigate in shallow water not accessible by other vessels. Used for fishing or carriage of cargo in the 19th century this type of vessel was adapted for use as a type of BT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL leisure craft. SN : A sailing vessel, generally with three masts, square rigged on the fore and main . Boier USE : BOEIER BT : SAILING VESSEL BOMBARDON SN : Sailing vessel generally with three masts square rigged BT : MULBERRY HARBOUR on the foremast only. SN : A floating breakwater in the form of a hollow cruciform tube 200 ft long by 25 ft high. Bombardons were designed to BARRAGE BALLOON VESSEL reduce the height of waves and formed the outer breakwater BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL of the Mulberry harbours. BOMB BT : TENDER BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : A vessel used to bombs and depth charges SN : Small two or three masted ship used as trading vessels from the shore to flying during the Second World War. in the medieval mediterranean.

BOMB VESSEL CARGO VESSEL BT : BT : TRANSPORT VESSEL SN : A sailing warship armed with one or more heavy NT : ARMED CARGO VESSEL howitzers or mortars and used for bombarding shore NT : BARGE positions. The modern equivalent is the . NT : BULK ORE CARRIER NT : COASTER DEFENCE VESSEL NT : COLLIER BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT : SN : A vessel for maintaining the buoys, hawsers and netting NT : DROMOND of a boom defence. NT : DRY BULK CARGO CARRIER NT : FLUIT NT : FREIGHTER BT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL NT : SN : Two masted vessel with a on both masts. NT : HULK (SAIL) NT : NT : LIVESTOCK SHIP NT : BT : SAILING VESSEL NT : PASSENGER VESSEL SN : A two masted craft which is square rigged on the NT : PUFFER foremast and fore and aft rigged on the main mast. NT : NT : BUCKET DREDGER NT : BT : DREDGER SN : A craft used for the transportation of cargoes. Use SN : A self propelled vessel for deepening harbours using a specific type where known. continuous chain of buckets BULK ORE CARRIER BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A three masted vessel with a square rig on the fore and SN : Large cargo vessel specially built and equipped for main masts and rig on the mizzen mast. handling large quantities of ore. CARTEL CABIN CRAFT BT : TRANSPORT VESSEL BT : LEISURE CRAFT SN : Transport vessel, usually a hired vessel of mercantile NT : CABIN origin, used for the exchange of prisoners-of-war; sometimes, SN : A small vessel with a cabin as an integral part of its specifically a with such prisoners. construction. CABIN CRUISER BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : CABIN CRAFT SN : A small cargo craft, usually with two masts and a lateen SN : A type of motorboat that provides accommodation for rig. crew and passengers within the crafts cabin. Cabin Cruisers are usually between 25 feet and 45 feet long in length and are CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP not to be confused with cruise which are substantially BT : TRANSPORT VESSEL larger. RT : HOSPITAL SHIP SN : Transport vessel used for the repatriation of wounded troops, particularly during the First World War. Loosely BT : MARITIME CRAFT described as "hospital ships", these ships were distinct from SN : A ship used for laying cables (often telephone cables) hospital ships proper by being defensively armed. along the sea bed. Cam Ship BT : CRAFT USE : CATAPULT ARMED MERCHANTMAN SN : A multihulled craft consisting of two hulls, or vakas, which are usually joined together by a frame or other CANOE structure, formed of akas. can be sail or engine BT : CRAFT powered. SN : A small open boat, usually a very light craft propelled by a paddle. CATAPULT ARMED MERCHANTMAN UF : Cam Ship CAPER BT : AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL BT : SN : World War II-era British merchant ships used in convoys SN : 17th/18th century lightly armed privateer, usually either a as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers 'Dunkirker' or Dutch. became available. They were equipped with a rocket- propelled catapult launching a single Hawker Sea Hurricane Class . USE : FRIGATE (NON SAIL) C Class Destroyer CONVICT TRANSPORT USE : DESTROYER BT : TRANSPORT VESSEL SN : Transport vessel hired for the enforced removal of C Class Submarine convicts to penal colonies abroad(e.g. , ), or USE : SUBMARINE for their return to Britain.

CHAIN BT : FERRY BT : CRAFT SN : A small ferry powered by steam or , which SN : A small craft of wickerwork covered with waterproof pull vessel from one side of a crossing along submerged material. chains. CORSAIR CHASSE MAREE BT : PRIVATEER UF : Chasse Marie SN : Privateer operating under government licence to act BT : SAILING VESSEL against enemy merchant shipping. The term is closely SN : French coasting vessel associated with North African which operated off the Barbary coast prior to the mid-1800's. Chasse Marie USE : CHASSE MAREE (NON SAIL) BT : ESCORT VESSEL Cherokee Class SN : A small anti submarine escort vessel built in World War USE : SLOOP OF WAR II

CLIPPER CORVETTE (SAIL) BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : ESCORT VESSEL SN : Generic term for fast sailing ships with schooner rig and SN : A flush decked sailing warship with a single tier of guns. fine lines. CRAFT HULK UF : Ship BT : HULK UF : Boat SN : Old ship converted to a floating coal store. BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : CANOE COASTER NT : CATAMARAN NT : BT : CARGO VESSEL NT : CORACLE NT : KOF NT : GIG SN : Small cargo vessel used for short coastal voyages NT : HOVERCRAFT carrying a variety of cargoes. NT : HYDROFOIL NT : LOGBOAT COASTGUARD VESSEL NT : SCHUIT BT : CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL NT : NT : REVENUE CUTTER NT : SHIPS BOAT RT : CUSTOMS BOAT SN : All vessels, use more specific type where known. RT : PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN : From 1822, any vessel in the service of HM Coastguard, CRANE BARGE principally deployed on Customs and Revenue duties, i.e. BT : BARGE anti-smuggling operations. Superseded the Preventive SN : A shallow draft vessel used to carry a crane. Service Vessel. CRAYER COBLE BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : CRAFT SN : A small, single-masted merchant vessel, designed for NT : FOYBOAT maximum capacity and not for sailing ability. SN : A small -built craft, dating primarily from the 19th and early 20th centuries, fitted with oars and often a sail, CRUISE BOAT usually found on the north-east coast of and used for fishing or pilotage. BT : PASSENGER VESSEL SN : Open decked vessel used for sight seeing or pleasure voyages. BT : SAILING VESSEL CRUISER SN : North European medieval merchant vessel. UF : Second Class Cruiser COLLIER BT : WARSHIP NT : UF : Admiralty Collier SN : Large warship equipped with turret mounted guns. BT : CARGO VESSEL Intended for independent action for trade protection, SN : A vessel for carrying a cargo of coal in bulk. reconaissance and fire support for amphibious operations.

CONTAINER SHIP BT : CARGO VESSEL BT : PASSENGER VESSEL SN : A cargo vessel designed to carry goods packed in large containers that can be loaded directly onto trains or lorries. SN : A passenger vessel equipped with recreational facilities BT : SHIPS BOAT for long voyages for pleasure and sight seeing. BT : LEISURE CRAFT SN : A type of small boat that was often carried, or towed by a CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL larger vessel and used as a ship's boat. can also be BT : MARITIME CRAFT used recreationally as independent sailing vessels. NT : COASTGUARD VESSEL NT : CUSTOMS BOAT DISTILLING SHIP NT : PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : Any vessel in the service of one of the historical or SN : World War II naval support vessel usually converted modern agencies concerned with the prevention of inbound from a mercantile or other warship type and used for the or outbound smuggling: namely the Preventive Service, the distillation of water by both the Royal and the American Coastguard, or the Customs and Excise. Use more specific Navy. term. CUSTOMS BOAT BT : KETCH BT : CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL SN : A short wide-beamed Dutch craft, often used as a fishing RT : PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL vessel or, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a privateer due to its RT : COASTGUARD VESSEL manoeuvrability. Fitted with a ketch rig or variations thereof. SN : A small vessel used as transport for customs officers. Used extensively in the .

CUTTER DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : BATTLESHIP SN : A small one masted craft, often using oars as well as SN : A heavily armoured with an armament . composed entirely of large calibre guns and powered by stem turbines. In effect any battleship constructed after 1908. DANDY BT : SAILING VESSEL DREDGER SN : Ketch or rigged vessel with a large mizzen sail BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT used in the west country. BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : BUCKET DREDGER DAN LAYER NT : DREDGER BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT NT : HOPPER DREDGER SN : A vessel used for the laying and removal of buoys and NT : OYSTER DREDGER other navigational markers. NT : SUCTION DREDGER SN : A craft used to deepen shipping channels, harbours and D Class Destroyer other water courses. USE : DESTROYER DRIFTER DECOY VESSEL UF : Admiralty Drifter BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT : FISHING VESSEL NT : DUMMY WARSHIP SN : A fishing boat using nets which are free to move with the NT : Q SHIP tides and currents. SN : A vessel, usually a merchant vessel, altered to resemble a warship or another vessel. DROMOND BT : CARGO VESSEL DEGAUSSING VESSEL SN : Originally denoting a Byzantine vessel, powered by oars, BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL from the 6th century onwards, this developed into a large SN : A vessel containing equipment for reducing the magnetic Mediterranean ship with oars and a single mast, used for structure of a ship's hull making it immune to magnetic mines. trade or for war transport, (e.g. during the Crusades) until the 15th century. Dryad Class Boat BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : A ship acting as a base for smaller vessels and or USE : DESTROYER submarines. DRY BULK CARGO CARRIER DESTROYER BT : CARGO VESSEL UF : Hunt Class Destroyer SN : Cargo vessel specially constructed to carry bulk items UF : R Class Destroyer such as grain. Does not include liquid cargoes. UF : Scott Class Destroyer UF : Basilisk Class Destroyer Dublin Class 74 Gun Ship UF : C Class Destroyer USE : THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF : D Class Destroyer BT : WARSHIP DUMMY WARSHIP NT : TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER BT : DECOY VESSEL SN : A very fast small warship, armed with small calibre guns SN : A civil vessel disguised as a warship. and torpedoes. Used for attacking enemy vessels, escort duties and anti submarine duties. Sloop USE : BT : TENDER EAST INDIAMAN UF : East India Company Sloop BT : SAILING VESSEL FIRE FIGHTING TUG SN : Name given to a vessel of the East India Company. BT : TUG Usually large, well built and magnificently decorated. BT : FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL SN : A tug equipped with water tanks and pumps for fighting E BOAT fires at sea or on the shore line. UF : S Boot UF : Schnellboot FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL BT : BT : SERVICE VESSEL SN : The name given by the Allies during the Second World NT : FIRE FIGHTING TUG War to the German motor torpedo boat. E Boats carried two SN : A vessel equipped with water tanks and pumps for torpedo tubes and anti aircraft guns. They had a maximum fighting fires at sea or on the shore line. speed of 39 knots and were considered superior to their Allied counterparts. FIRESHIP BT : WARSHIP E Class Submarine SN : A small vessel used to attack other vessels and setting USE : PATROL SUBMARINE themselves and then the enemy alight.

EMIGRANT SHIP First Class Battleship BT : PASSENGER VESSEL USE : BATTLESHIP SN : A passenger vessel equipped to carry a large number of emigrants usually with large third class decks and plenty of FIRST RATE SHIP OF THE LINE cargo space. UF : 100 Gun Ship BT : SHIP OF THE LINE ESCORT VESSEL SN : A ship of the line mounting 100 guns or more on three BT : WARSHIP gundecks. NT : ANTI SUBMARINE VESSEL NT : CORVETTE (NON SAIL) FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSEL NT : CORVETTE (SAIL) BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT : FRIGATE (NON SAIL) SN : A vessel for policing fishing grounds and fishing vessels. NT : FRIGATE (SAIL) SN : A warship used to provide an escort to other or Fishing Boat merchant ships against attack. USE : FISHING VESSEL EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL FISHING VESSEL UF : BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL UF : Fishing Boat SN : A vessel used for inspecting vessels entering port during BT : MARITIME CRAFT wartime. NT : BANKER NT : DRIFTER Examination Vessel NT : FIVE MAN BOAT NT : LANCASHIRE USE : EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL NT : OYSTER DREDGER NT : SEINER EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT NT : TERRE NEUVA BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : TRAWLER SN : A craft built with the intention of demonstrating or NT : WHALER advertising a novel design feature. SN : A vessel or craft used for catching or harvesting marine life by a variety of methods, use specific method where known. BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : WHALE PROCESSING SHIP FIVE MAN BOAT SN : A vessel with equipment for processing dead marine life BT : whilst still at sea. BT : FISHING VESSEL SN : Three-masted fishing lugger built in and operating out FERRY of on the North Sea fisheries; so named as it was BT : PASSENGER VESSEL crewed by five joint owners, plus two or three paid hands. NT : CHAIN FERRY NT : ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY FLAT SN : A vessel designed for the transport of persons and BT : SAILING VESSEL goods from one place to another an a regular schedule of SN : A broad, flat-bottomed boat. sailings. Use specific type were known. FLEET MESSENGER FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL UF : 32 Gun Ship SN : A vessel for carrying messages between warships. UF : 36 Gun Ship UF : 44 Gun Ship BT : SHIP OF THE LINE BT : SUBMARINE SN : A sailing frigate mounting 32 to 44 guns with the main SN : Large submarine intended to operate with a surface fleet battery on a single deck. at sea. FLOATING BATTERY GALEAS BT : WARSHIP BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A small stem powered warship with its hull protected by SN : Any one of the cargo vessels of that name belonging to plates. Used to bombard targets onshore, especially in the different Baltic nations, in use from the mid 18th to the the . early 20th century. Usually ketch-rigged. Not to be confused with the oared GALEASS. FLUIT UF : BT : CARGO VESSEL UF : Oared Galleass SN : 17th century Dutch vessel built for naval or East BT : SAILING VESSEL India service, with a relatively flat bottom and narrow hull; SN : Oared sailing vessel developed in the 15th century, the sometimes rendered into English as `fly-boat'. larger English version with secondary oars coming into use in the 16th century. Not to be confused with GALEAS. FLUTE BT : WARSHIP SN : French warship broadly equivalent to the English 4th to BT : SAILING VESSEL 6th Rates, with as few as 4 to as many as 50 guns. SN : Warship or trading vessel, three masted with a low . Fluyt USE : FLUIT UF : Oared Galley FLY BOAT BT : MARITIME CRAFT UF : Vlieboot RT : BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Oared fighting ship with ancillary sails. SN : Flat bottomed, two-masted Dutch coastal vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Sometimes used as an GALLIOT English term for fluit, also a flat-bottomed vessel. BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : A small galley or Dutch trading vessel similar to a barge FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE in construction. UF : 64 Gun Ship BT : SHIP OF THE LINE G Class Submarine SN : A ship of the line mounting between 46 and 64 guns USE : SUBMARINE

Foy GIG USE : FOYBOAT BT : CRAFT SN : A six oared rowing boat which originated in in FOYBOAT the 18th century. Originally used as a pilot vessel, useage UF : Foy adapted to include cargo vessel and . Today gigs are BT : COBLE used in sporting events. SN : Small, heavily built coble, usually fitted with lugsail and oars, used on the north-east coast of England to assist, tow, GRAB DREDGER pilot, provision or otherwise attend ships. BT : DREDGER SN : A dredger with a grab hung on ropes or chains giving it FREIGHTER unlimited depth of excavation. they can lift solids or pieces of BT : CARGO VESSEL wreckages and can work close to ships or to a dock wall. SN : A single decked cargo vessel carrying the majority of its cargo on deck. GRAIN BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT FRIGATE (NON SAIL) SN : A craft on which is a machine for the loading and UF : Captain Class Frigate unloading of grain to and from a warehouse. BT : ESCORT VESSEL SN : A medium speed anti submarine escort vessel built from GRAIN HULK World War II BT : STORAGE HULK SN : A demasted ship used exclusively for the storage of FRIGATE (SAIL) grain. BT : ESCORT VESSEL SN : A three masted fully rigged warship armed with 24 to 38 GUNBOAT guns on a single gundeck. BT : WARSHIP NT : Fueler NT : GUN BRIG USE : OILER NT : MOTOR GUNBOAT NT : RIVER GUNBOAT FULL RIGGED SHIP NT : UF : 4 Masted Ship SN : A small warship built to operate close to the shore or UF : 5 Masted Ship in river estuaries. Used for shore bombardment and patrol BT : SAILING VESSEL duties. SN : A vessel carrying square sails on all masts and having three or more masts. GUN BRIG BT : GUNBOAT SN : A small sailing vessel armed with guns. SN : A large Mediterranean cargo or transport vessel of the 15th to 17th century, usually less than 400 tons. H21 Class Submarine USE : PATROL SUBMARINE BT : SAILING VESSEL HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT SN : Flat bottomed vessel used for coasting on the River BT : SERVICE VESSEL Humber. NT : DAN LAYER NT : DREDGER Hunt Class Destroyer NT : USE : DESTROYER NT : LIGHTER NT : MOORING VESSEL HYDROFOIL NT : TUG BT : CRAFT NT : WATER CARRIER SN : High speed craft developed in the 20th Century which SN : Craft used to maintain, supply or assist larger vessels employ a wing-like structure mounted on struts below the whilst in harbour. hull which lift the vessel above the water line during forward motion, reducing drag and increasing speed. HOLLAND SUBMARINE BT : SUBMARINE IRONCLAD SN : First practical submarine design. The first to use a BT : WARSHIP combination of battery power and internal combustion NT : TURRET IRONCLAD engines. SN : Warships constructed of iron plate or with wooden hulls covered by iron plates. Used as a generic name for the first Hopper examples of plated warships. USE : HOPPER BARGE J Class Submarine HOPPER BARGE USE : SUBMARINE UF : Hopper BT : BARGE KEEL SN : A vessel used to carry away mud etc from a BT : SAILING VESSEL machine and discharging it elsewhere. SN : Flat bottomed vessel used for loading colliers in the north east, similar to a lighter. HOPPER DREDGER BT : DREDGER KETCH SN : A dredger which can act as its own hopper and can thus BT : SAILING VESSEL transport the mud which it picks up to dump it at the desired NT : DOGGER place. SN : A vessel with two masts, rigged as a ketch, used for coastal trading. HOSPITAL SHIP BT : PASSENGER VESSEL KOF BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT : COASTER RT : CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP SN : Dutch coaster of the late 17th to late 19th centuries with SN : A ship used for treating patients or moving them a square hull and 2 masts, generally having a heavy keel and between a battle zone and a safe area. round and bilges, although later examples were built on more refined lines. HOUSE BOAT BT : MARITIME CRAFT LANCASHIRE NOBBY SN : A boat used as private or domestic living accomodation. BT : FISHING VESSEL SN : Fishing specialised both for working water HOVERCRAFT and for for shrimp, predominantly in and around BT : CRAFT Morecambe Bay. SN : An air-cushioned vehicle capable of travelling over land or water. BT : WARSHIP NT : BT : SAILING VESSEL NT : LANDING CRAFT MECHANISED SN : Small coastal vessel. NT : LANDING CRAFT TANK SN : Inshore craft used for carrying troops and HULK equipment used either for beach landings or as a ferry. Use BT : MARITIME CRAFT specific type where known. NT : COAL HULK NT : PRISON HULK LANDING CRAFT INFANTRY NT : SHEER HULK BT : LANDING CRAFT NT : STORAGE HULK SN : Small landing craft often armoured, designed to carry SN : An old ship converted for a variety of uses for which it is infantrymen and their equipment ashore from larger vessels not required to move under its own power. offshore.

HULK (SAIL) LANDING CRAFT MECHANISED BT : CARGO VESSEL BT : LANDING CRAFT BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Landing craft designed for carrying military vehicles and used for beach landings and as a ferry. LINER BT : PASSENGER VESSEL LANDING CRAFT TANK SN : A ship belonging to a shipping company which carries UF : Lct Mk 40 passengers on a scheduled route usually applied to steam BT : LANDING CRAFT ships only. SN : Large inshore craft with a retractable loading ramp in the . Used to carry tanks ashore for a beach landing or as a LIVESTOCK SHIP tank ferry. BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A designed for the carriage of livestock usually cattle or LANDING SHIP TANK sheep. BT : WARSHIP SN : Small going vessel fitted with loading doors in LOGBOAT the bow. Used for ferrying tanks or other fighting vehicles to BT : CRAFT beach landings. SN : A boat fashioned out of a section of tree trunk.

LAUNCH LONG BOAT BT : MARITIME CRAFT BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : A large ship's boat powered by oars and or an engine. SN : The largest boat belonging to a sailing vessel, and usually the means of escape from a sinking ship; powered by L Class Submarine oars. USE : PATROL SUBMARINE LONGSHIP Lct Mk 40 BT : WARSHIP USE : LANDING CRAFT TANK RT : GALLEY SN : A term for any vessel powered principally by sail and LEISURE CRAFT oars, or oars alone, used especially for war. As a broad term BT : MARITIME CRAFT it may refer to Roman galleys, or more specifically to an NT : CABIN CRAFT Anglo-Saxon or Norse warship of the Age. NT : DINGHY NT : RACING CRAFT LUGGER NT : BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Craft intended for recreation and not intended for any NT : FIVE MAN BOAT commercial use. SN : A vessel with a rig. A lug is a four sided sail set on a lug or . LIBERTY SHIP BT : CARGO VESSEL Man Of War RT : VICTORY SHIP USE : WARSHIP SN : A cargo vessel constructed in the U.S.A. during World War II from prefabricated sections by . MARITIME CRAFT NT : AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL LIFEBOAT NT : AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE BT : RESCUE VESSEL NT : BLOCK SHIP SN : A boat specifically designed for saving lives at sea, they NT : CABLE LAYER can be either: a boat carried on a larger vessel for use in NT : CRAFT emergency evacuation of crew and passengers in the event NT : CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL of shipwreck or a boat built for the purpose of shore-to-sea NT : DREDGER rescue missions. NT : EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT NT : FACTORY SHIP LIGHT CRUISER NT : FISHING VESSEL BT : CRUISER NT : GALLEY SN : Large warship with no armour and a high speed. Used NT : HOUSE BOAT for reconnaisance and raids on enemy merchant shipping. NT : HULK NT : LAUNCH LIGHTER NT : LEISURE CRAFT UF : Admiralty Lighter NT : LONG BOAT BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT NT : MOTOR LAUNCH SN : Unpowered flat bottomed vessel, used for carrying cargo NT : MULBERRY HARBOUR from ship to shore or as a working platform. NT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT : LIGHTHOUSE TENDER NT : PATROL VESSEL NT : PONTOON BT : SERVICE VESSEL NT : PRIVATEER SN : A small vessel used to carry supplies and personnel to NT : VESSEL lighthouses. NT : RADIO SHIP NT : RAFT LIGHTSHIP NT : REFUGE BUOY BT : TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL NT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Normally an unpowered vessel, moored in places where NT : SAILING VESSEL the construction of a lighthouse is impractical. NT : SCREW STEAMER NT : SERVICE VESSEL NT : SEWAGE DUMPING VESSEL BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT NT : SURVEY VESSEL SN : A vessel used to put down and pick up moorings on the NT : sea bed for large vessels. NT : TRANSPORT VESSEL NT : TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL MOTOR GUNBOAT NT : TUG BT : GUNBOAT NT : WARSHIP SN : A small fast warship powered by diesel or petrol NT : WORK BOAT engines. Built during World War II for coastal patrol work and SN : The class term, use more specific terms. anti shipping missions close in shore

MIDGET SUBMARINE MOTOR LAUNCH UF : X Craft UF : B Class Motor Launch BT : SUBMARINE BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : Small submarine with a two or three man crew. Used SN : Generic name for a small steam or power boat often for special missions such as sinking warships in heavily carried on board a larger vessel. defended harbours. MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT MINE CARRIER BT : WARSHIP BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT : E BOAT SN : A vessel used for carrying mines between warships and SN : A small warship powered by petrol or diesel engines and supply depots. armed with torpedo tubes and small guns. Used for coastal anti shipping patrols and warfare in coastal waters. MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL BT : WARSHIP MUD BARGE NT : BT : BARGE NT : MINESWEEPER SN : A flat bottomed vessel for receiving mud and other SN : A vessel designed or adapted for the task of keeping material from a dredger. shipping lanes and free from the threat of naval mines. Use specific type where known. of MULBERRY HARBOUR BT : MARITIME CRAFT MINEHUNTER NT : BOMBARDON UF : Mine Hunter NT : PHOENIX CAISSON BT : MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL NT : WHALE UNIT SN : A mine countermeasure vessel built to detect and SN : An artificial harbour, constructed using prefabricated, destroy individual naval mines. (See Minesweeper for vessels concrete caissons, floating breakwaters and blockships, that sweep and explode mined areas at sea without prior which were towed across the channel and assembled off the detection). coast of Normandy to assist the allied forces after the D-Day landings in June 1944. Mine Hunter USE : MINEHUNTER USE : NARROW BOAT BT : WARSHIP NARROW BOAT SN : A ship designed or modified to carry large numbers of UF : Narrowboat mines and be able to lay them as a minefield. BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A craft designed for use on and inland MINE LAYING SUBMARINE waterways. Usually 70ft long x 7ft wide though can be longer BT : SUBMARINE and broader. SN : A submarine built or adapted to carry mines and lay minefields. NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT : MARITIME CRAFT MINESWEEPER NT : ADMIRALTY VESSEL UF : Mine Sweeper NT : ADVICE BOAT UF : Ascot Class Minesweeper NT : BARRAGE BALLOON VESSEL UF : Auxiliary Minesweeper NT : BOOM DEFENCE VESSEL BT : MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL NT : DECOY VESSEL SN : A vessel designed or adapted to sweep and explode NT : DEGAUSSING VESSEL mined areas at sea without prior detection. (See Minehunter NT : DEPOT SHIP for vessels that detect and destroy individual mines). NT : DISTILLING SHIP NT : EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL Mine Sweeper NT : FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSEL USE : MINESWEEPER NT : FLEET MESSENGER NT : HOSPITAL SHIP MOORING BUOY LIFTER BARGE NT : MINE CARRIER BT : BARGE NT : OILER SN : A barge with a crane or sheer legs used for moving and NT : ORDNANCE SHIP maintaining mooring buoys. NT : STORESHIP NT : TARGET CRAFT MOORING VESSEL NT : TENDER NT : TORPEDO RECOVERY VESSEL UF : Auxiliary Mooring Vessel NT : TROOP SHIP NT : VICTUALLER NT : WATER TAXI SN : A vessel used to carry essential supplies, such as SN : A vessel designed principally for the carriage of fare food and armaments, to naval ships in order to keep them paying passengers. replenished whilst on patrol. Use more specific term. NET LAYER BT : PATROL VESSEL UF : Admiralty Netlayer SN : A small warship engaged in patrolling coastal waters. BT : WARSHIP SN : Small vessel built or adapted to lay and recover anti Patrol Ship submarine nets in harbours and anchorages. USE : PATROL VESSEL

Oared Galleass PATROL SUBMARINE USE : GALLEASS UF : E Class Submarine UF : H21 Class Submarine Oared Galley UF : L Class Submarine USE : GALLEY UF : Swordfish Class Submarine UF : U Class Submarine Offshore Supply Vessel BT : PATROL VESSEL USE : BT : SUBMARINE SN : Diesel engined submarine designed for long ocean OILER voyages in search of enemy shipping. UF : Fueler UF : Admiralty Oiler PATROL VESSEL BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL UF : Patrol Ship SN : Generic term for all vessels used to supply warships with BT : MARITIME CRAFT any type of fuel. NT : PATROL BOAT NT : PATROL SUBMARINE ORDNANCE SHIP SN : A vessel, purpose-built or requisitioned, used for BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL patrolling inland or coastal waters, e.g. Coastguard and NT : ORDNANCE SLOOP Customs vessels. SN : A vessel used for carrying weapons and ammunition to warships. PHOENIX CAISSON UF : Phoenix Unit ORDNANCE SLOOP BT : MULBERRY HARBOUR BT : ORDNANCE SHIP SN : A floatable concrete vessel, numbers of which made SN : A sloop used for carrying weapons and ammunition to up the main breakwater of the Mulberry Harbours used to warships. secure beachheads during the allied invasion of in June 1944. Orion Class Battleship Phoenix Unit USE : BATTLESHIP USE : PHOENIX CAISSON OYSTER DREDGER Pile Driver BT : DREDGER BT : FISHING VESSEL USE : PILE DRIVING BARGE SN : A fishing vessel which tows a dredger to gather oysters. This is an iron wedge shaped contrivance with a small net PILE DRIVING BARGE attached. Towed behind the vessel the iron wedge loosens UF : Pile Driver the oysters and they fall into the net. BT : BARGE SN : Flat bottomed vessel used as a platform for a pile driver. PACKET BT : SAILING VESSEL PILOT VESSEL SN : A fast, armed vessel, small in size, often used for BT : SERVICE VESSEL despatches and mail. SN : A vessel used to carry a pilot to a ship.

PADDLE STEAMER BT : MARITIME CRAFT BT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL RT : SCREW STEAMER SN : Small square rigged ship with a narrow overhanging SN : A steam vessel propelled by a pair of paddle wheels stern. amidships or a single wheel astern, driven by a reciprocating engine. BT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL PASSENGER VESSEL SN : A small two masted craft, with oars as well as sails. BT : CARGO VESSEL NT : CRUISE BOAT PLATFORM SUPPLY VESSEL NT : CRUISE SHIP UF : Offshore Supply Vessel NT : EMIGRANT SHIP BT : TRANSPORT VESSEL NT : FERRY SN : Specially designed/fitted carriers of crew and/or supplies NT : HOSPITAL SHIP to offshore oil platforms. NT : LINER NT : TROOP SHIP USE : POLACRE R Class Destroyer POLACRE USE : DESTROYER UF : Polacca BT : SAILING VESSEL REFORMATORY SHIP SN : A ship or brig peculiar to the Mediterranean. BT : TRAINING SHIP SN : A training ship to which boys who had committed petty PONTOON crimes were sentenced for 4 to 5 years to be reformed and BT : MARITIME CRAFT trained as sailors. SN : A flat bottomed boat or hollow float of which a number are used to support a temporary over a river. REFUGE BARGE BT : BARGE POWDER HULK SN : Moored barge providing a refuge for shipwrecked sailors BT : STORAGE HULK or downed airmen, for example the air-sea rescue Cuckoo SN : A vessel used for storing and issuing gunpowder, usually of WWII. moored well away from the dockyard. REFUGE BUOY Preventative Service Vessel BT : MARITIME CRAFT USE : PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN : A buoy with a compartment into which shipwrecked mariners could climb to await rescue. PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL UF : Preventative Service Vessel RESCUE TUG BT : CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL BT : TUG NT : REVENUE CUTTER BT : RESCUE VESSEL RT : CUSTOMS BOAT SN : A rescue tug equipped to care for survivors from RT : COASTGUARD VESSEL torpedoed vessels and also available for towing to port ships SN : Prior to 1822 a vessel used by the customs department damaged by enemy action. involved with the prevention of smuggling. RESCUE VESSEL PRISON HULK UF : Standby Safety Vessel BT : HULK BT : SERVICE VESSEL SN : Demasted old ship used as a floating prison. NT : LIFEBOAT NT : RESCUE TUG PRIVATEER SN : A specially equipped ship designed to care for survivors BT : MARITIME CRAFT of stricken vessels and offshore drilling platforms. These NT : CAPER ships were often converted naval trawlers or . NT : CORSAIR SN : A private fighting ship under a or REVENUE CUTTER financed by subscribers, shareholders or individuals. BT : COASTGUARD VESSEL BT : PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL PRIZE VESSEL SN : A single masted cutter built specifically for the prevention BT : MARITIME CRAFT of smuggling and the enforcement of customs regulations. SN : Cargo vessel or warship captured by a warship or privateer of a hostile nation in time of war, usually taken into RIVER GUNBOAT that nation¿s mercantile, privateering or naval service. BT : GUNBOAT SN : A small warship with a shallow draught. Used for patrol PUFFER duties and shore bombardment on major . BT : CARGO VESSEL SN : A small cargo vessel used on the West coast of Roads Barge . USE : BARGE

Q SHIP ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY BT : DECOY VESSEL UF : Roro Ferry SN : A small or warship with concealed BT : FERRY weapons, intended as a trap for enemy submarines. SN : A type of ferry that is designed to carry wheeled vehicles that can be driven on to and off the vessel. RACING CRAFT BT : LEISURE CRAFT Roro Ferry SN : Any vessel designed for speed or racing. USE : ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY

RADIO SHIP SAILING VESSEL BT : MARITIME CRAFT BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : Vessel fitted with broadcasting equipment and used for NT : BAWLEY off-shore radio programme transmission. NT : BILLYBOY NT : BOEIER RAFT NT : CARAVEL BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : CARRACK SN : A flat floating framework of planks or other materials NT : CARVEL used for supporting or carrying persons or goods. NT : CHASSE MAREE NT : NT : COG USE : DESTROYER NT : CRAYER NT : CUTTER SCREW STEAMER NT : DANDY BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : EAST INDIAMAN RT : PADDLE STEAMER NT : FLAT SN : A steam vessel propelled by rotating called NT : FLY BOAT screws. NT : GALLEASS NT : GALLEON Second Class Cruiser NT : GALLIOT USE : CRUISER NT : HOY NT : HULK (SAIL) SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE NT : HUMBER KEEL NT : KEEL UF : 90 Gun Ship NT : KETCH BT : SHIP OF THE LINE NT : LUGGER SN : A ship of the line mounting between 90 and 98 guns on NT : PACKET three gun decks NT : POLACRE NT : SHALLOP SEINER NT : SLOOP BT : FISHING VESSEL NT : SMACK SN : A fishing vessel that catches fish by using a Seining NT : TROW net, that is a large net that is made to hang in the water by NT : attaching weights along the bottom edge and counteracting NT : floats along the top. NT : NT : YACHT SERVICE VESSEL NT : YAWL BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : A sailing vessel defined by a combination of such factors NT : FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL as hull design, locality and rig. NT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT NT : LIGHTHOUSE TENDER SAILING VESSEL NT : PILOT VESSEL BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : RESCUE VESSEL NT : BARQUENTINE NT : SALVAGE VESSEL NT : BRIGANTINE SN : A vessel used to maintain supply or assist larger NT : FULL RIGGED SHIP vessels. Use more specific term. NT : SCHOONER NT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL SEWAGE DUMPING VESSEL SN : The characteristics of a sailing vessel where her type is BT : MARITIME CRAFT determined by her masts and sails. SN : A vessel equipped with sealed tanks for transporting sewage and dumping it in deep water. BT : TUG SEWN BOAT BT : SALVAGE VESSEL BT : CRAFT SN : A small and powerful vessel used to assist vessels that SN : A type of clinker built wooden boat or ship held together are sinking or disabled at sea. with tendons of flexible such as roots and willow branches. Sewn boat construction techniques were used in SALVAGE VESSEL many parts of the world prior to the development of metal BT : SERVICE VESSEL fasteners. NT : SALVAGE TUG SN : A vessel used for the underwater recovery of a ship and/ SHALLOP or her contents or to assist vessels that are sinking. BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : A small light vessel with a schooner rig often used for S Boot fishing. USE : E BOAT SHEER HULK Schnellboot BT : HULK USE : E BOAT SN : Old ship with a hull stripped to the water line and used as a platform for mounting the sheers used to lift masts into SCHOONER and out of sailing ships. UF : 5 Masted Schooner BT : SAILING VESSEL Ship SN : Two masted ship with fore and aft sails and two or more USE : CRAFT masts. SHIP OF THE LINE SCHUIT BT : WARSHIP BT : CRAFT NT : FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN : Dutch galliot-rigged vessel used mostly for river trade in NT : FIRST RATE SHIP OF THE LINE Holland but sometimes also for coasting or short sea-going NT : FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE voyages NT : SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE NT : SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE Scott Class Destroyer NT : THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN : A with a sufficient numerically large gun SN : A ship in government use, used to carry naval or military armament to stand in the . stores.

SHIPS BOAT Stumpsail Barge BT : CRAFT USE : BARGE NT : DINGHY SN : Satellite craft belonging to a larger vessel, usually a SUBMARINE rowing vessel; used to pick up or set down passengers or UF : G Class Submarine crew when lying offshore, or stowed on board as the "long UF : J Class Submarine boat" or "" for lifesaving purposes. UF : A Class Submarine UF : B Class Submarine SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF : C Class Submarine UF : 24 Gun Ship BT : WARSHIP UF : 30 Gun Ship NT : FLEET SUBMARINE BT : SHIP OF THE LINE NT : HOLLAND SUBMARINE SN : A small warship mounting between 20 and 28 nine- NT : pounder guns on a single deck. NT : MINE LAYING SUBMARINE NT : PATROL SUBMARINE SLAVE SHIP NT : SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER BT : CARGO VESSEL NT : U BOAT SN : A large cargo vessel, either purpose-fitted or converted, SN : A vessel designed to operate below the surface of the for the transportation of slaves. sea.

SLOOP SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : SUBMARINE SN : A vessel with a single mast, fore and aft rigged. RT : AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL SN : British 'M' class submarine modified to carry and launch SLOOP OF WAR a small sea plane. UF : Cherokee Class Sloop BT : WARSHIP SUCTION DREDGER SN : Any small rigged warship below the sailing classification BT : DREDGER of frigate. SN : A dredger that works by the use of suction.

SMACK SURVEY VESSEL BT : SAILING VESSEL BT : MARITIME CRAFT SN : Small fishing craft used mainly for fishing, cutter or ketch SN : A craft which is equipped for and performs hydrographic rigged. surveys.

SNOW Swimhead Barge BT : SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL USE : BARGE SN : Two masted merchant vessel, rigged as a brig. Swordfish Class Submarine SPRITSAIL BARGE USE : PATROL SUBMARINE BT : BARGE NT : THAMES TANK BARGE SN : A barge with a spritsail rig commonly found on the River BT : BARGE Thames. SN : A barge fitted with a large tank in its hull for carried liquid cargoes. SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL BT : SAILING VESSEL TANKER NT : BARQUE BT : CARGO VESSEL NT : BRIG SN : A ship designed specifically for the carriage of liquid NT : PINK cargoes, particularly oil. NT : PINNACE NT : TARGET CRAFT SN : A vessel with a type of where the main driving BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL sails are fixed to yards which lie square to the mast. SN : An obsolete vessel used as a weapons target.

Standby Safety Vessel TENDER USE : RESCUE VESSEL BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT : BOMB SCOW STORAGE HULK NT : DINGHY BT : HULK SN : A small vessel attached to a larger vessel (usually a NT : GRAIN HULK warship) for general harbour duties such as taking crewmen NT : POWDER HULK ashore or fetching supplies. SN : A demasted old ship used for storing items. TERRE NEUVA STORESHIP BT : FISHING VESSEL BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : French Banker, fishing vessel for the Grand Banks of SN : Any vessel operated by Trinity house masters and , generally three-masted or of brig type, from brethren in the maintenance of lighthouses, lightships, buoys the late 19th and 20th centuries. and other navigation aids.

Thames Barge TROOP SHIP USE : BT : PASSENGER VESSEL BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL THAMES SAILING BARGE SN : A vessel used for the transport of troops, either during UF : Thames Barge wartime or for garrison duties in peacetime. BT : SPRITSAIL BARGE SN : Flat-bottomed barge with shallow draft adapted for TROW carrying bulk cargoes among the of the Thames BT : SAILING VESSEL Estuary; usually spritsail-rigged, though other rigs were SN : A small cargo boat found on the River Severn in permissible. England, with a mast which could be taken down to allow the boat to pass under low bridges. THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF : 70 Gun Ship TUG UF : 72 Gun Ship UF : Admiralty Tug UF : 74 Gun Ship BT : MARITIME CRAFT UF : Dublin Class 74 Gun Ship BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT BT : SHIP OF THE LINE NT : FIRE FIGHTING TUG SN : A ship of the line mounting between 64 and 80 guns NT : RESCUE TUG typically built with two gun decks. NT : SALVAGE TUG SN : A relatively small and heavily built vessel equipped with Topsail Barge large engines. Used for towing ships at sea or manouevring USE : BARGE them in tight spaces.

TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER TURRET IRONCLAD UF : Dryad Class Torpedo Boat BT : IRONCLAD BT : DESTROYER SN : A warship constructed of iron plate with its main SN : A small fast warship developed in the late nineteenth armament mounted in a revolving turret on deck. century. Armed principally with quick firing guns to destroy enemy torpedo boats. Type Ubiii Submarine USE : U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) TORPEDO GUNBOAT BT : GUNBOAT Type Ucii Submarine SN : Late nineteenth and early twentieth century warship USE : U BOAT (TYPE UCII) armed with guns and torpedoes. Type Uci Submarine TORPEDO RECOVERY VESSEL USE : U BOAT (TYPE UCI) BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : A craft used to retrieve torpedoes after practice firings. U BOAT UF : U Boot TRAINING SHIP UF : Unterseeboot BT : MARITIME CRAFT BT : SUBMARINE NT : REFORMATORY SHIP NT : U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) SN : Vessels of various types used specifically for providing NT : U BOAT (TYPE UCI) an initial training in seamanship. NT : U BOAT (TYPE UCII) SN : The British designation for any German submarine TRANSPORT VESSEL built for military purposes. U-Boat is an anglicization of the BT : MARITIME CRAFT German U-Boot, an abbreviation for Unterseeboot (Undersea NT : CARGO VESSEL Boat). In German U-Boot refers to any submarine. NT : CARTEL NT : CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) NT : CONVICT TRANSPORT UF : Type Ubiii Submarine NT : PLATFORM SUPPLY VESSEL BT : U BOAT SN : A vessel used for transporting passengers or goods. SN : A German coastal in use during the First World War. The U Boat had 5 torpedo tubes (4 bow/1 TRAWLER stern) and carried 10 torpedoes as well as an 88mm (or in UF : Admiralty Trawler some cases 105mm) . UF : Auxiliary Trawler BT : FISHING VESSEL U BOAT (TYPE UCI) SN : A fishing vessel specially designed to operate and trawl UF : Type Uci Submarine for the catching of bottom lying fish. Use with power where BT : U BOAT known. SN : A German coastal minelaying submarine in use during the First World War. The U Boat carried 12 mines but was TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL otherwise unarmed with no deck gun or torpedo tubes. BT : MARITIME CRAFT NT : LIGHTSHIP U BOAT (TYPE UCII) UF : Type Ucii Submarine BT : U BOAT SN : A German coastal minelaying submarine in use during WHALE CATCHER the First World War. In addition to 18 mines, the U BOAT also BT : WHALER carried 7 torpedoes in 3 tubes (2 bow/1 stern) and and 88mm SN : A craft employed to whales and bring them in to or 105mm deck gun. A very successful design, UCIIs sank be processed. more than 1800 vessels. WHALE PROCESSING SHIP U Boot BT : FACTORY SHIP USE : U BOAT SN : A ship used to process whales into saleable products.

U Class Submarine WHALER USE : PATROL SUBMARINE UF : Admiralty Whaler BT : FISHING VESSEL Unterseeboot NT : WHALE CATCHER USE : U BOAT SN : Any vessel involved in the catching or transportation of whales. VICTORY SHIP BT : CARGO VESSEL WHALE UNIT RT : LIBERTY SHIP BT : MULBERRY HARBOUR SN : A prefabricated cargo vessel produced in large numbers NT : BEETLE UNIT by North American during World War II to replace SN : A floating pier, comprised of a floating pierhead (SPUD) shipping losses caused by German submarines and replacing and a roadway resting on pontoons (BEETLES). The the earlier 'LIBERTY' ships. pierhead and roadway were capable of rising and falling with the tide enabling unloading of troops and equipment to occur VICTUALLER at any state of the tide. BT : NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN : A vessel used to carry supplies to warships. WHERRY BT : SAILING VESSEL Vlieboot SN : A decked sailing vessel of shallow draft. USE : FLY BOAT WORK BOAT WARSHIP BT : MARITIME CRAFT UF : Man Of War SN : Generic name for a vessel used for work rather than for BT : MARITIME CRAFT recreation, transportation, or military purposes. The vessels NT : AIRCRAFT CARRIER include tugs, barges, landing craft, dredgers and standby NT : ANTI AIRCRAFT VESSEL safety vessels. Use only were the exact type of vessel is NT : BATTLECRUISER unknown. NT : BATTLESHIP NT : CRUISER X Craft NT : DESTROYER USE : MIDGET SUBMARINE NT : ESCORT VESSEL NT : FIRESHIP XEBEC NT : FLOATING BATTERY BT : SAILING VESSEL NT : FLUTE SN : A small three-masted lateen-rigged vessel used NT : GUNBOAT exclusively in the Mediterranean from the 16th to the 19th NT : IRONCLAD century. Its hull was similar in form to that of a polacre but NT : LANDING CRAFT with an extended bow and stern. NT : LANDING SHIP TANK NT : LONGSHIP YACHT NT : MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL BT : LEISURE CRAFT NT : MINELAYER BT : SAILING VESSEL NT : MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SN : Any vessel propelled by sail or power and used for NT : NET LAYER pleasure and not plying for hire. NT : SHIP OF THE LINE NT : SLOOP OF WAR YAWL NT : SUBMARINE SN : A ship that is built and primarily intended for war. BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : A craft with two masts.It is usually cutter rigged on the WATER CARRIER foremast and has a small mizzen mast. BT : HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT SN : A small vessel used to carry fresh water to ships at anchor or in harbour.

WATER TAXI BT : PASSENGER VESSEL SN : A craft available for public hire for short journeys.

WEST INDIAMAN BT : SAILING VESSEL SN : Any vessel in use by the West India Company.