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Maritime Craft Type Thesaurus

Report Format: Hierarchical listing - alpha

Notes: A thesaurus of maritime craft.

Date: February 2019

100 Gun Admiralty Trawler USE FIRST RATE USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL TRAWLER 24 Gun Ship SN Use both terms. USE SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE Admiralty Tug 30 Gun Ship USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL USE SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE TUG 32 Gun Ship SN Use both terms. USE FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE ADMIRALTY VESSEL 36 Gun Ship UF Admiralty Admiralty USE FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE Admiralty Lighter 4 Masted Ship Admiralty Netlayer Admiralty Oiler USE FULL RIGGED SHIP Admiralty Trawler 44 Gun Ship Admiralty Tug USE FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE Admiralty SN Any vessel which has been hired or impressed 5 Masted for use by the Admiralty. USE SCHOONER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL 5 Masted Ship USE FULL RIGGED SHIP Admiralty Whaler USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL 64 Gun Ship WHALER USE FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN Use both terms. 70 Gun Ship ADVICE USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN A small, fast boat used for carrying orders 72 Gun Ship between vessels. CL MARITIME CRAFT USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL 74 Gun Ship USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN A major equipped with a clear flat 90 Gun Ship to provide a landing and taking off place for aircraft. USE SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE CL MARITIME CRAFT A Class BT WARSHIP USE SUBMARINE RT VESSEL Admiralty Collier AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL SN A vessel fitted with a catapult for launching an COLLIER aircraft. SN Use both terms. CL MARITIME CRAFT NT CATAPULT Admiralty Drifter RT AIRCRAFT CARRIER USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER DRIFTER AMMUNITION SN Use both terms. SN Shallow vessel used to carry ammunition. Admiralty Lighter CL MARITIME CRAFT USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL BT BARGE LIGHTER AMPHIBIOUS SN Use both terms. SN Vehicle either adapted, or purpose-built, to Admiralty Netlayer operate on both land and , for example a USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL or DUKW. NET LAYER CL MARITIME CRAFT SN Use both terms. ANTI AIRCRAFT VESSEL Admiralty Oiler SN A vessel (often small obsolete or USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL pleasure steamers) equipped with batteries of OILER anti aircraft guns as its main armament. SN Use both terms. CL MARITIME CRAFT BT WARSHIP

2 ANTI SUBMARINE VESSEL SN A small warship (often adapted from a trawler or LUG BOAT drifter) used to hunt enemy . MOORING BUOY LIFTER BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT MUD BARGE BT ESCORT VESSEL PILE DRIVING BARGE REFUGE BARGE ARMED BOARDING STEAMER BARGE SN Mercantile vessel converted during the First TANK BARGE World War for the purposes of examining and boarding enemy vessels. SN A sailing vessel, generally with three masts, CL MARITIME CRAFT square rigged on the fore and main . BT WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT ARMED CARGO VESSEL BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL SN A vessel used for carrying cargoes, fitted with defensive . Use with specific type and SN Sailing vessel generally with three masts square form where known. rigged on the foremast only. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL BT SAILING VESSEL NT BARRAGE BALLOON VESSEL Ascot Class SN A vessel used as a platform for flying a barrage USE MINESWEEPER balloon from. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT SUBMARINE Basilisk Class NT U BOAT (TYPE U31) USE DESTROYER U BOAT (TYPE U43) U BOAT (TYPE U5) U BOAT (TYPE U81) SN A capital warship lightly armoured but with the U BOAT (TYPE U87) same gun armament and turbine propulsion U BOAT (TYPE U93) as a . U BOAT (TYPE UBI) CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT (TYPE ) BT WARSHIP U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) BATTLESHIP Auxiliary Minesweeper UF First Class Battleship MINESWEEPER USE Orion Class Battleship Auxiliary Mooring Vessel SN A capital warship, often steam driven, heavily armoured with armament of large calibre guns USE MOORING VESSEL deployed in turrets. Auxiliary Trawler CL MARITIME CRAFT USE TRAWLER BT WARSHIP NT DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP B Class Motor USE SN A small coastal vessel peculiar to Kent, B Class Submarine rigged. USE SUBMARINE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL BANKER BEETLE UNIT SN A employed exclusively on the Grand Banks . SN Concrete or steel pontoons that supported the CL MARITIME CRAFT Whale piers. They were moored in position using BT FISHING VESSEL wires attsched to Kite . CL MARITIME CRAFT BARGE BT WHALE UNIT UF Roads Barge BILLYBOY Stumpsail Barge Swimhead Barge SN Single masted east coast trading vessel, Barge rigged or single masted. SN Shallow draft cargo vessel, often broad beamed CL MARITIME CRAFT and flat bottomed, powered by engine and or . BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SHIP BT CARGO VESSEL NT AMMUNITION BARGE SN A or obsolete vessel filled with cement or BARGE similar material and scuttled to block an entrance

3 to a port or anchorage, usually as a defensive the foremast and fore and rigged on the main measure. mast. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BOARDING BOAT BT SAILING VESSEL SN Any boat used to transfer crew from shore to an BUCKET DREDGER offlying vessel. May also carry the catch from a SN A self propelled vessel for deepening harbours fishing boat to shore. Used as special by using a continuous chain of buckets the National Institution for CL MARITIME CRAFT conveying crew from the beach to a moored BT DREDGER lifeboat. BULK ORE CARRIER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT TRANSPORT VESSEL SN Large cargo vessel specially built and equipped for handling large quantities of ore. Boat CL MARITIME CRAFT USE CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL BOEIER C Class Destroyer UF Boier USE DESTROYER SN A -like sailing vessel whose shallow C Class Submarine draught enables it to navigate in shallow water not accessible by other vessels. Used for fishing USE SUBMARINE or carriage of cargo in the 19th century this type CRAFT of vessel was adapted for use as a type of leisure craft. SN A small vessel with a cabin as an integral part of CL MARITIME CRAFT its construction. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LEISURE CRAFT Boier NT CABIN USE BOEIER CABIN CRUISER BOMB SN A type of motorboat that provides accommodation SN A vessel used to transport bombs and depth for crew and passengers within the crafts cabin. charges from the shore to flying boats during the Cabin Cruisers are usually between 25 feet and Second World War. 45 feet long in length and are not to be confused CL MARITIME CRAFT with cruise which are substantially larger. BT TENDER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CABIN CRAFT SN A sailing warship armed with one or more heavy howitzers or mortars and used for bombarding SN A ship used for laying cables (often telephone shore positions. The modern equivalent is the cables) along the sea bed. . CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT Cam Ship BT USE CATAPULT ARMED MERCHANTMAN BOMBARDON CANOE SN A floating breakwater in the form of a hollow cruciform tube 200 ft long by 25 ft high. SN A small open boat, usually a very light craft Bombardons were designed to reduce the height propelled by a . of waves and formed the outer breakwater of CL MARITIME CRAFT the Mulberry harbours. BT CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT CAPER BT MULBERRY HARBOUR SN 17th/18th century lightly armed , usually DEFENCE VESSEL either a 'Dunkirker' or Dutch. SN A vessel for maintaining the buoys, hawsers and CL MARITIME CRAFT netting of a boom defence. BT PRIVATEER CL MARITIME CRAFT Captain Class BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL USE FRIGATE (NON SAIL) SN Two masted vessel with a on both SN Small two or three masted ship used as trading masts. vessels in the medieval mediterranean. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL BT SAILING VESSEL CARGO VESSEL SN A two masted craft which is square rigged on SN A craft used for the transportation of cargoes.

4 Use specific type where known. were equipped with a rocket-propelled catapult CL MARITIME CRAFT launching a single Hawker Sea Hurricane . BT TRANSPORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT NT ARMED CARGO VESSEL BT AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL BARGE CHAIN BULK ORE CARRIER SN A small ferry powered by steam or , COASTER which pull vessel from one side of a river COLLIER crossing along submerged . CL MARITIME CRAFT DROMOND BT FERRY DRY BULK CARGO CARRIER FLUIT CHASSE MAREE FREIGHTER UF Chasse Marie SN French coasting vessel HULK (SAIL) CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL LIVESTOCK SHIP Chasse Marie PASSENGER VESSEL USE CHASSE MAREE PUFFER Cherokee Class USE SLOOP OF WAR SN Generic term for fast sailing ships with schooner SN A three masted vessel with a square rig on the rig and fine lines. fore and main masts and rig on the mizzen CL MARITIME CRAFT mast. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT HULK BT SAILING VESSEL SN Old ship converted to a floating coal store. CARTEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SN Transport vessel, usually a hired vessel of BT HULK mercantile origin, used for the exchange of COASTER prisoners-of-war; sometimes, specifically a with such prisoners. SN Small cargo vessel used for short coastal CL MARITIME CRAFT voyages carrying a variety of cargoes. BT TRANSPORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL NT KOF SN A small cargo craft, usually with two masts and a COASTGUARD VESSEL lateen rig. CL MARITIME CRAFT SN From 1822, any vessel in the service of HM BT SAILING VESSEL Coastguard, principally deployed on Customs and Revenue duties, i.e. anti-smuggling operations. CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP Superseded the Preventive Service Vessel. SN Transport vessel used for the repatriation of CL MARITIME CRAFT wounded troops, particularly during the First BT CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL World War. Loosely described as "hospital NT REVENUE CUTTER ships", these ships were distinct from hospital RT CUSTOMS BOAT ships proper by being defensively armed. PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT TRANSPORT VESSEL RT HOSPITAL SHIP SN A small -built craft, dating primarily from the 19th and early 20th centuries, fitted with and often a sail, usually found on the north-east SN A multihulled craft consisting of two hulls, or coast of England and used for fishing or pilotage. vakas, which are usually joined together by a CL MARITIME CRAFT or other structure, formed of akas. BT CRAFT can be sail or engine powered. NT FOYBOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CRAFT SN North European medieval merchant vessel. CATAPULT ARMED MERCHANTMAN CL MARITIME CRAFT UF Cam Ship BT SAILING VESSEL SN World War II-era British merchant ships used in COLLIER convoys as an emergency stop-gap until sufficient escort carriers became available. They UF Admiralty Collier

5 SN A vessel for carrying a cargo of coal in bulk. SN A small, single-masted merchant vessel, CL MARITIME CRAFT designed for maximum capacity and not for BT CARGO VESSEL sailing ability. CL MARITIME CRAFT CONTAINER SHIP BT SAILING VESSEL SN A cargo vessel designed to carry goods packed in large containers that can be loaded directly CRUISE BOAT onto trains or lorries. SN Open decked vessel used for sight seeing or CL MARITIME CRAFT pleasure voyages. BT CARGO VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT PASSENGER VESSEL CONVICT TRANSPORT SN Transport vessel hired for the enforced removal of convicts to penal colonies abroad(e.g. , SN A passenger vessel equipped with recreational ), or for their return to Britain. facilities for long voyages for pleasure and sight CL MARITIME CRAFT seeing. BT TRANSPORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT PASSENGER VESSEL SN A small craft of wickerwork covered with CRUISER waterproof material. UF Second Class Cruiser CL MARITIME CRAFT SN Large warship equipped with turret mounted BT CRAFT guns. Intended for independent action for trade protection, reconaissance and fire support for CORSAIR amphibious operations. SN Privateer operating under government licence to CL MARITIME CRAFT act against enemy merchant shipping. The term is BT WARSHIP closely associated with North African NT which operated off the Barbary coast prior to the mid-1800's. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SN Any vessel in the service of one of the historical BT PRIVATEER or modern agencies concerned with the prevention of inbound or outbound smuggling: (NON SAIL) namely the Preventive Service, the Coastguard, SN A small anti submarine escort vessel built in or the Customs and Excise. Use more specific World War II term. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT ESCORT VESSEL NT COASTGUARD VESSEL CORVETTE (SAIL) CUSTOMS BOAT PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN A flush decked sailing warship with a single tier of guns. CUSTOMS BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A small vessel used as transport for customs BT ESCORT VESSEL officers. CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL UF Boat RT COASTGUARD VESSEL Ship PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN All vessels, use more specific type where known. CUTTER CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A small one masted craft, often using oars as NT CANOE well as . CATAMARAN CL MARITIME CRAFT COBLE BT SAILING VESSEL CORACLE D Class Destroyer USE DESTROYER HYDROFOIL DAN LAYER LOGBOAT SCHUIT SN A vessel used for the laying and removal of buoys and other navigational markers. SHIPS BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT CRANE BARGE DANDY SN A shallow draft vessel used to carry a crane. CL MARITIME CRAFT SN Ketch or rigged vessel with a large mizzen BT BARGE sail used in the west country. CL MARITIME CRAFT CRAYER BT SAILING VESSEL

6 BT KETCH DECOY VESSEL DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP SN A vessel, usually a merchant vessel, altered to SN A heavily armoured with an armament resemble a warship or another vessel. composed entirely of large calibre guns and CL MARITIME CRAFT powered by stem turbines. In effect any BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL battleship constructed after 1908. NT DUMMY WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT Q SHIP BT BATTLESHIP DEGAUSSING VESSEL DREDGER SN A vessel containing equipment for reducing the SN A craft used to deepen shipping channels, magnetic structure of a ship's hull making it harbours and other water courses. immune to magnetic mines. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT BUCKET DREDGER DREDGER SN A ship acting as a base for smaller vessels and HOPPER DREDGER or submarines. OYSTER DREDGER CL MARITIME CRAFT SUCTION DREDGER BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL DRIFTER DESTROYER UF Admiralty Drifter UF Basilisk Class Destroyer SN A fishing boat using nets which are free to move C Class Destroyer with the and currents. D Class Destroyer CL MARITIME CRAFT Hunt Class Destroyer BT FISHING VESSEL R Class Destroyer DROMOND Scott Class Destroyer SN Originally denoting a Byzantine vessel, powered SN A very fast small warship, armed with small by oars, from the 6th century onwards, this calibre guns and torpedoes. Used for attacking developed into a large Mediterranean ship with enemy vessels, escort duties and anti submarine oars and a single mast, used for trade or for war duties. transport, (e.g. during the Crusades) until the CL MARITIME CRAFT 15th century. BT WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT NT BOAT DESTROYER BT CARGO VESSEL DRY BULK CARGO CARRIER SN A type of small boat that was often carried, or SN Cargo vessel specially constructed to carry bulk towed by a larger vessel and used as a ship's items such as grain. Does not include liquid boat. can also be used recreationally as cargoes. independent sailing vessels. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL BT TENDER LEISURE CRAFT Dryad Class SHIPS BOAT USE TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER DISTILLING SHIP Dublin Class 74 Gun Ship SN World War II naval support vessel usually USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE converted from a mercantile or other warship type and used for the distillation of water by both DUMMY WARSHIP the Royal and the American Navy. SN A civil vessel disguised as a warship. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT DECOY VESSEL E BOAT SN A vessel used to carry supplies and equipment UF S Boot needed by recreational or deep sea divers. Schnellboot CL MARITIME CRAFT SN The name given by the Allies during the Second BT SERVICE VESSEL World War to the German . E Boats carried two torpedo tubes and anti aircraft guns. They had a maximum speed of 39 knots SN A short wide-beamed Dutch craft, often used as and were considered superior to their Allied a fishing vessel or, in the 17th and 18th counterparts. centuries, a privateer due to its manoeuvrability. CL MARITIME CRAFT Fitted with a ketch rig or variations thereof. Used BT MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT extensively in the . CL MARITIME CRAFT

7 E Class Submarine CL MARITIME CRAFT USE PATROL SUBMARINE BT SHIP OF THE LINE Sloop FIRE FIGHTING TUG USE SN A tug equipped with water and pumps for fighting fires at sea or on the shore line. EAST INDIAMAN CL MARITIME CRAFT UF East India Company Sloop BT TUG SN Name given to a vessel of the East India FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL Company. Usually large, well built and magnificently decorated. FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel equipped with water tanks and pumps BT SAILING VESSEL for fighting fires at sea or on the shore line. CL MARITIME CRAFT EMIGRANT SHIP BT SERVICE VESSEL SN A passenger vessel equipped to carry a large NT FIRE FIGHTING TUG number of emigrants usually with large third class decks and plenty of cargo space. FIRESHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A small vessel used to attack other vessels and BT PASSENGER VESSEL setting themselves and then the enemy alight. CL MARITIME CRAFT ESCORT VESSEL BT WARSHIP SN A warship used to provide an escort to other or merchant ships against attack. First Class Battleship CL MARITIME CRAFT USE BATTLESHIP BT WARSHIP FIRST RATE SHIP OF THE LINE NT ANTI SUBMARINE VESSEL CORVETTE (NON SAIL) UF 100 Gun Ship CORVETTE (SAIL) SN mounting 100 guns or more on FRIGATE (NON SAIL) three gundecks. FRIGATE (SAIL) CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SHIP OF THE LINE EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSEL UF SN A vessel used for inspecting vessels entering SN A vessel for policing fishing grounds and fishing port during wartime. vessels. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL Examination Vessel Fishing Boat USE EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL USE FISHING VESSEL EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT FISHING VESSEL SN A craft built with the intention of demonstrating or UF Fishing Boat advertising a novel design feature. SN A vessel or craft used for catching or harvesting CL MARITIME CRAFT marine life by a variety of methods, use specific method where known. CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel with equipment for processing dead NT BANKER marine life whilst still at sea. DRIFTER CL MARITIME CRAFT FIVE MAN BOAT NT WHALE PROCESSING SHIP HOVELLER FERRY LANCASHIRE OYSTER DREDGER SN A vessel designed for the transport of persons SEINER and goods from one place to another an a regular SKIFF schedule of sailings. Use specific type were TERRE NEUVA known. TRAWLER CL MARITIME CRAFT WHALER BT PASSENGER VESSEL NT CHAIN FERRY FIVE MAN BOAT ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY SN Three-masted fishing built in and operating out of on the North Sea fisheries; so FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE named as it was crewed by five joint owners, UF 32 Gun Ship plus two or three paid hands. 36 Gun Ship CL MARITIME CRAFT 44 Gun Ship BT FISHING VESSEL SN A sailing frigate mounting 32 to 44 guns with the LUGGER main battery on a single deck.

8 FLAT BT COBLE SN A broad, flat-bottomed boat. FREIGHTER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL SN A single decked cargo vessel carrying the majority of its cargo on deck. FLEET MESSENGER CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel for carrying messages between BT CARGO VESSEL warships. FRIGATE (NON SAIL) CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL UF Captain Class Frigate SN A medium speed anti submarine escort vessel built from World War II SN Large submarine intended to operate with a CL MARITIME CRAFT surface fleet at sea. BT ESCORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT FRIGATE (SAIL) BT SUBMARINE SN A three masted fully rigged warship armed with FLOATING BATTERY 24 to 38 guns on a single gundeck. SN A small stem powered warship with its hull CL MARITIME CRAFT protected by iron plates. Used to bombard targets BT ESCORT VESSEL onshore, especially in the Crimean War. Fueler CL MARITIME CRAFT BT WARSHIP USE OILER FLUIT FULL RIGGED SHIP UF UF 4 Masted Ship SN 17th century Dutch vessel built for naval or East 5 Masted Ship India service, with a relatively flat bottom and SN A vessel carrying square sails on all masts and narrow hull; sometimes rendered into English as having three or more masts. `fly-boat'. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL BT CARGO VESSEL G Class Submarine FLUTE USE SUBMARINE SN French warship broadly equivalent to the English GALEAS 4th to 6th Rates, with as few as 4 to as many as SN Any one of the cargo vessels of that name 50 guns. belonging to the different Baltic nations, in use CL MARITIME CRAFT from the mid 18th to the early 20th century. BT WARSHIP Usually ketch-rigged. Not to be confused with the Fluyt oared GALEASS. USE FLUIT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL FLY BOAT UF Vlieboot SN Flat bottomed, two-masted Dutch coastal vessel UF Oared Galleass of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. SN Oared sailing vessel developed in the 15th Sometimes used as an English term for fluit, also century, the larger English version with a flat-bottomed vessel. secondary oars coming into use in the 16th CL MARITIME CRAFT century. Not to be confused with GALEAS. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF 64 Gun Ship SN A ship of the line mounting between 46 and 64 SN Warship or trading vessel, three masted with a guns low . CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SHIP OF THE LINE BT SAILING VESSEL Foy USE FOYBOAT UF Oared Galley SN Oared fighting ship with ancillary sails. FOYBOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT UF Foy RT SN Small, heavily built coble, usually fitted with lugsail GALLIOT and oars, used on the north-east coast of England to assist, tow, pilot, provision or SN A small galley or Dutch trading vessel similar to a otherwise attend ships. barge in construction. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT

9 BT SAILING VESSEL SN First practical submarine design. The first to use a combination of battery power and internal GIG combustion engines. SN A six oared rowing boat which originated in CL MARITIME CRAFT in the 18th century. Originally used as a BT SUBMARINE pilot vessel, useage adapted to include cargo vessel and lifeboat. Today gigs are used in Hopper sporting events. USE HOPPER BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT HOPPER BARGE BT CRAFT UF Hopper GRAB DREDGER SN A vessel used to carry away mud etc from a SN A dredger with a grab hung on ropes or chains machine and discharging it elsewhere. giving it unlimited depth of excavation. they can CL MARITIME CRAFT lift solids or pieces of wreckages and can work BT BARGE close to ships or to a dock wall. HOPPER DREDGER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT DREDGER SN A dredger which can act as its own hopper and can thus transport the mud which it picks up to GRAIN dump it at the desired place. SN A craft on which is a machine for the loading and CL MARITIME CRAFT unloading of grain to and from a warehouse. BT DREDGER CL MARITIME CRAFT HOSPITAL SHIP BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT SN A ship used for treating patients or moving them GRAIN HULK between a battle zone and a safe area. SN A demasted ship used exclusively for the storage CL MARITIME CRAFT of grain. BT PASSENGER VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT STORAGE HULK RT CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP GUN BRIG HOUSE BOAT SN A small sailing vessel armed with guns. SN A boat used as private or domestic living CL MARITIME CRAFT accomodation. BT GUNBOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT GUNBOAT Hoveler SN A small warship built to operate close to the USE HOVELLER shore or in river estuaries. Used for shore HOVELLER bombardment and patrol duties. CL MARITIME CRAFT UF Hobbler BT WARSHIP Hoveler NT BOMB VESSEL Hubbler GUN BRIG Huffler MOTOR GUNBOAT SN A freelance boat used off the south and east RIVER GUNBOAT coasts of England to provide passing ships with TORPEDO BOAT pilots, supplies, new anchors and other gear. Some helped sailing ships and get underway. Generally lug-rigged. Also used for H21 Class Submarine fishing. Half decked. USE PATROL SUBMARINE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT TRANSPORT VESSEL HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT FISHING VESSEL SN Craft used to maintain, supply or assist larger SALVAGE VESSEL vessels whilst in harbour. HOVERCRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SERVICE VESSEL SN An air-cushioned vehicle capable of travelling NT DAN LAYER over land or water. DREDGER CL MARITIME CRAFT GRAIN ELEVATOR BT CRAFT LIGHTER MOORING VESSEL TUG SN Small coastal vessel. WATER CARRIER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL Hobbler Hubbler USE HOVELLER USE HOVELLER HOLLAND SUBMARINE

10 Huffler NT DOGGER USE HOVELLER KOF HULK SN Dutch coaster of the late 17th to late 19th SN An old ship converted for a variety of uses for centuries with a square hull and 2 masts, which it is not required to move under its own generally having a heavy and round power. and , although later examples were built on CL MARITIME CRAFT more refined lines. NT COAL HULK CL MARITIME CRAFT PRISON HULK BT COASTER SHEER HULK L Class Submarine STORAGE HULK USE PATROL SUBMARINE HULK (SAIL) LANCASHIRE NOBBY SN A large Mediterranean cargo or transport vessel of the 15th to 17th century, usually less than 400 SN Fishing specialised both for working shoal tons. water and for for , predominantly CL MARITIME CRAFT in and around Morecambe Bay. BT CARGO VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SAILING VESSEL BT FISHING VESSEL KEEL SN Flat bottomed vessel used for coasting on the SN Inshore craft used for carrying troops and military River Humber. equipment used either for beach landings or as a CL MARITIME CRAFT ferry. Use specific type where known. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT WARSHIP Hunt Class Destroyer NT LANDING CRAFT USE DESTROYER LANDING CRAFT MECHANISED LANDING CRAFT TANK HYDROFOIL SN High speed craft developed in the 20th Century which employ a wing-like structure mounted on SN Small landing craft often armoured, designed to struts below the hull which lift the vessel above carry infantrymen and their equipment ashore the water line during forward motion, reducing from larger vessels offshore. drag and increasing speed. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LANDING CRAFT BT CRAFT LANDING CRAFT MECHANISED INTERMEDIATE PIERHEAD PONTOON SN Landing craft designed for carrying military SN A pontoon element of a Mulberry Harbour that sits and used for beach landings and as a between the Spud Pontoons that allow oit to rise ferry. and fall with the . CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LANDING CRAFT BT MULBERRY HARBOUR LANDING CRAFT TANK IRONCLAD UF Lct Mk 40 SN Warships constructed of iron plate or with SN Large inshore craft with a retractable loading wooden hulls covered by iron plates. Used as a ramp in the . Used to carry tanks ashore for generic name for the first examples of armour a beach landing or as a tank ferry. plated warships. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LANDING CRAFT BT WARSHIP LANDING SHIP TANK NT TURRET IRONCLAD SN Small going vessel fitted with loading J Class Submarine doors in the bow. Used for ferrying tanks or USE SUBMARINE other fighting vehicles to beach landings. CL MARITIME CRAFT KEEL BT WARSHIP SN Flat bottomed vessel used for loading colliers in the north east, similar to a lighter. LAUNCH CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A large ship's boat powered by oars and or an BT SAILING VESSEL engine. CL MARITIME CRAFT KETCH SN A vessel with two masts, rigged as a ketch, used Lct Mk 40 for coastal trading. USE LANDING CRAFT TANK CL MARITIME CRAFT LEISURE CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL

11 SN Craft intended for recreation and not intended for SN A boat fashioned out of a section of tree trunk. any commercial use. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CRAFT NT CABIN CRAFT LONG BOAT DINGHY RACING CRAFT SN The largest boat belonging to a sailing vessel, and SKIFF usually the means of escape from a sinking ship; powered by oars. CL MARITIME CRAFT LIBERTY SHIP LONGSHIP SN A cargo vessel constructed in the U.S.A. during World War II from prefabricated sections by SN A term for any vessel powered principally by sail welding. and oars, or oars alone, used especially for war. CL MARITIME CRAFT As a broad term it may refer to Roman galleys, or BT CARGO VESSEL more specifically to an Anglo-Saxon or Norse RT VICTORY SHIP warship of the Age. CL MARITIME CRAFT LIFEBOAT BT WARSHIP SN A boat specifically designed for saving lives at RT GALLEY sea, they can be either: a boat carried on a larger LUG BOAT vessel for use in emergency evacuation of crew and passengers in the event of shipwreck or a UF Lugsail Barge boat built for the purpose of shore-to-sea rescue SN A barge with a lugsail rig commonly found on the missions. in the late 19th century. Also a CL MARITIME CRAFT general term applied to the family of Deal . BT RESCUE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT THAMES LIGHT CRUISER SAILING VESSEL SN Large warship with no armour and a high speed. BARGE Used for reconnaisance and raids on enemy SAILING VESSEL merchant shipping. RT LUGGER CL MARITIME CRAFT LUGGER BT CRUISER SN A vessel with a rig. A lug is a four sided LIGHTER sail set on a lug or . Modified from square- UF Admiralty Lighter rigged vessels from the late 17th century. SN Unpowered flat bottomed vessel, used for Became a popular fishing boat rig in the 19th carrying cargo from ship to shore or as a century. working platform. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT NT FIVE MAN BOAT RT LUG BOAT LIGHTHOUSE TENDER SN A small vessel used to carry supplies and Lugsail Barge personnel to lighthouses. USE LUG BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT Man Of War BT SERVICE VESSEL USE WARSHIP LIGHTSHIP MARITIME CRAFT SN Normally an unpowered vessel, moored in places where the construction of a lighthouse is SN The class term, use more specific terms. impractical. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT NT AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL BT TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL BLOCK SHIP LINER BOARDING BOAT SN A ship belonging to a shipping company which CABLE LAYER carries passengers on a scheduled route usually CRAFT applied to steam ships only. CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT DREDGER BT PASSENGER VESSEL EXPERIMENTAL CRAFT FACTORY SHIP LIVESTOCK SHIP FISHING VESSEL SN A designed for the carriage of livestock usually GALLEY cattle or sheep. HOUSE BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT HOVELLER BT CARGO VESSEL HULK LOGBOAT LAUNCH

12 LEISURE CRAFT LONG BOAT UF Mine Hunter LUG BOAT SN A mine countermeasure vessel built to detect and MOTOR LAUNCH destroy individual naval mines. (See MULBERRY HARBOUR Minesweeper for vessels that sweep and NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL explode mined areas at sea without prior PADDLE STEAMER detection). PATROL VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT PONTOON BT MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL PRIVATEER VESSEL RADIO SHIP SN A ship designed or modified to carry large RAFT numbers of mines and be able to lay them as a REFUGE BUOY minefield. SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SAILING VESSEL BT WARSHIP SCREW STEAMER MINESWEEPER SERVICE VESSEL SEWAGE DUMPING VESSEL UF Ascot Class Minesweeper SKIFF Auxiliary Minesweeper SURVEY VESSEL Mine Sweeper SN A vessel designed or adapted to sweep and TRANSPORT VESSEL explode mined areas at sea without prior TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL detection. (See Minehunter for vessels that TUG detect and destroy individual mines). WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT WORK BOAT BT MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL MOORING BUOY LIFTER BARGE UF X Craft SN A barge with a crane or sheer legs used for SN Small submarine with a two or three man crew. moving and maintaining mooring buoys. Used for special missions such as sinking CL MARITIME CRAFT warships in heavily defended harbours. BT BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SUBMARINE MOORING VESSEL UF Auxiliary Mooring Vessel MINE CARRIER SN A vessel used to put down and pick up moorings SN A vessel used for carrying mines between on the sea bed for large vessels. warships and supply depots. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL MOTOR GUNBOAT MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL SN A small fast warship powered by diesel or petrol SN A vessel designed or adapted for the task of engines. Built during World War II for coastal keeping shipping lanes and ports free from the patrol work and anti shipping missions close in threat of naval mines. Use specific type where shore known. of CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT GUNBOAT BT WARSHIP NT MINEHUNTER MOTOR LAUNCH MINESWEEPER UF B Class Motor Launch SN Generic name for a small steam or power boat Mine Hunter often carried on board a larger vessel. USE MINEHUNTER CL MARITIME CRAFT MINE LAYING SUBMARINE MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SN A submarine built or adapted to carry mines and SN A small warship powered by petrol or diesel lay minefields. engines and armed with torpedo tubes and small CL MARITIME CRAFT guns. Used for coastal anti shipping patrols and BT SUBMARINE warfare in coastal waters. NT U BOAT (TYPE UCI) CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT (TYPE UCII) BT WARSHIP U BOAT (TYPE UCIII) NT E BOAT U BOAT (TYPE UE2) MUD BARGE Mine Sweeper SN A flat bottomed vessel for receiving mud and USE MINESWEEPER other material from a dredger. CL MARITIME CRAFT

13 BT BARGE Offshore Supply Vessel MULBERRY HARBOUR USE SN An artificial harbour, constructed using OILER prefabricated, concrete caissons, floating UF Admiralty Oiler breakwaters and blockships, which were towed Fueler across the channel and assembled off the coast SN Generic term for all vessels used to supply of Normandy to assist the allied forces after the warships with any type of fuel. D-Day landings in June 1944. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL NT BOMBARDON INTERMEDIATE PIERHEAD PONTOON ORDNANCE SHIP PHOENIX CAISSON SN A vessel used for carrying weapons and WHALE UNIT ammunition to warships. NARROW BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL UF NT ORDNANCE SLOOP SN A craft designed for use on and inland waterways. Usually 70ft long x 7ft wide though ORDNANCE SLOOP can be longer and broader. SN A sloop used for carrying weapons and CL MARITIME CRAFT ammunition to warships. BT CARGO VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT Narrowboat BT ORDNANCE SHIP USE NARROW BOAT Orion Class Battleship NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL USE BATTLESHIP SN A vessel used to carry essential supplies, such OYSTER DREDGER as food and armaments, to naval ships in order to SN A fishing vessel which tows a dredger to gather keep them replenished whilst on patrol. Use more oysters. This is an iron wedge shaped specific term. contrivance with a small net attached. Towed CL MARITIME CRAFT behind the vessel the iron wedge loosens the NT ADMIRALTY VESSEL oysters and they fall into the net. ADVICE BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BARRAGE BALLOON VESSEL BT FISHING VESSEL BOOM DEFENCE VESSEL DREDGER DECOY VESSEL DEGAUSSING VESSEL PACKET DEPOT SHIP SN A fast, armed vessel, small in size, often used for DISTILLING SHIP despatches and mail. EXAMINATION SERVICE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSEL BT SAILING VESSEL FLEET MESSENGER PADDLE STEAMER HOSPITAL SHIP MINE CARRIER SN A steam vessel propelled by a pair of paddle OILER wheels amidships or a single wheel astern, ORDNANCE SHIP driven by a reciprocating engine. STORESHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT SUBMARINE TENDER RT SCREW STEAMER TARGET CRAFT PASSENGER VESSEL TENDER TORPEDO RECOVERY VESSEL SN A vessel designed principally for the carriage of TROOP SHIP fare paying passengers. VICTUALLER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL NET LAYER NT CRUISE BOAT UF Admiralty Netlayer CRUISE SHIP SN Small vessel built or adapted to lay and recover EMIGRANT SHIP anti submarine nets in harbours and anchorages. FERRY CL MARITIME CRAFT HOSPITAL SHIP BT WARSHIP LINER TROOP SHIP Oared Galleass WATER TAXI USE GALLEASS Oared Galley SN A small warship engaged in patrolling coastal USE GALLEY waters. CL MARITIME CRAFT BT PATROL VESSEL

14 BT TRANSPORT VESSEL Patrol Ship USE PATROL VESSEL USE POLACRE PATROL SUBMARINE POLACRE UF E Class Submarine UF Polacca H21 Class Submarine SN A ship or brig peculiar to the Mediterranean. L Class Submarine CL MARITIME CRAFT Swordfish Class Submarine BT SAILING VESSEL U Class Submarine SN Diesel engined submarine designed for long PONTOON ocean voyages in search of enemy shipping. SN A flat bottomed boat or hollow float of which a CL MARITIME CRAFT number are used to support a temporary BT SUBMARINE over a river. PATROL VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT PATROL VESSEL POWDER HULK UF Patrol Ship SN A vessel used for storing and issuing SN A vessel, purpose-built or requisitioned, used for gunpowder, usually moored well away from the patrolling inland or coastal waters, e.g. dockyard. Coastguard and Customs vessels. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT STORAGE HULK NT PATROL BOAT PATROL SUBMARINE Preventative Service Vessel PHOENIX CAISSON USE PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL UF Phoenix Unit PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN A floatable concrete vessel, numbers of which UF Preventative Service Vessel made up the main breakwater of the Mulberry SN Prior to 1822 a vessel used by the customs Harbours used to secure beachheads during the department involved with the prevention of allied of in June 1944. smuggling. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT MULBERRY HARBOUR BT CUSTOMS AND EXCISE VESSEL Phoenix Unit NT REVENUE CUTTER RT COASTGUARD VESSEL USE PHOENIX CAISSON CUSTOMS BOAT Pile Driver PRISON HULK USE PILE DRIVING BARGE SN Demasted old ship used as a floating prison. PILE DRIVING BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT HULK UF Pile Driver SN Flat bottomed vessel used as a platform for a pile PRIVATEER driver. SN A private fighting ship under a or CL MARITIME CRAFT financed by subscribers, shareholders or BT BARGE individuals. PILOT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT NT CAPER SN A vessel used to carry a pilot to a ship. CORSAIR CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SERVICE VESSEL PRIZE VESSEL SN Cargo vessel or warship captured by a warship or privateer of a hostile nation in time of war, SN Small square rigged ship with a narrow usually taken into that nation¿s mercantile, overhanging stern. privateering or naval service. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL PUFFER SN A small cargo vessel used on the West coast of SN A small two masted craft, with oars as well as Scotland. sails. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL Q SHIP PLATFORM SUPPLY VESSEL SN A small or warship with concealed UF Offshore Supply Vessel weapons, intended as a trap for enemy SN Specially designed/fitted carriers of crew and/or submarines. supplies to offshore oil platforms. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT

15 BT DECOY VESSEL SN A single masted cutter built specifically for the R Class Destroyer prevention of smuggling and the enforcement of USE DESTROYER customs regulations. CL MARITIME CRAFT RACING CRAFT BT PREVENTIVE SERVICE VESSEL SN Any vessel designed for speed or COASTGUARD VESSEL racing. RIVER GUNBOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LEISURE CRAFT SN A small warship with a shallow draught. Used for patrol duties and shore bombardment on major RADIO SHIP rivers. SN Vessel fitted with broadcasting equipment and CL MARITIME CRAFT used for off-shore radio programme BT GUNBOAT transmission. Roads Barge CL MARITIME CRAFT USE BARGE RAFT ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY SN A flat floating framework of planks or other materials used for supporting or carrying persons UF Roro Ferry or goods. SN A type of ferry that is designed to carry wheeled CL MARITIME CRAFT vehicles that can be driven on to and off the vessel. REFORMATORY SHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A training ship to which boys who had committed BT FERRY petty crimes were sentenced for 4 to 5 years to Roro Ferry be reformed and trained as sailors. CL MARITIME CRAFT USE ROLL ON ROLL OFF FERRY BT TRAINING SHIP S Boot REFUGE BARGE USE E BOAT SN Moored barge providing a refuge for SAILING VESSEL shipwrecked sailors or downed airmen, for SN A sailing vessel defined by a combination of such example the air-sea rescue Cuckoo barges of factors as hull design, locality and rig. WWII. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT NT BAWLEY BT BARGE BILLYBOY REFUGE BUOY BOEIER SN A buoy with a compartment into which CARAVEL shipwrecked mariners could climb to await CARRACK rescue. CARVEL CL MARITIME CRAFT CHASSE MAREE CLIPPER REPAIR VESSEL COG SN Auxiliary or support vessel used for the repair of CRAYER naval craft. CUTTER CL MARITIME CRAFT DANDY BT SERVICE VESSEL EAST INDIAMAN FLAT RESCUE TUG FLY BOAT SN A rescue tug equipped to care for survivors from GALLEASS torpedoed vessels and also available for towing GALLEON to port ships damaged by enemy action. GALLIOT CL MARITIME CRAFT HOY BT TUG HULK (SAIL) RESCUE VESSEL HUMBER KEEL KEEL RESCUE VESSEL KETCH UF Standby Safety Vessel LUG BOAT SN A specially equipped ship designed to care for LUGGER survivors of stricken vessels and offshore drilling PACKET platforms. These ships were often converted POLACRE naval trawlers or . SHALLOP CL MARITIME CRAFT SLOOP BT SERVICE VESSEL SMACK NT LIFEBOAT TROW RESCUE TUG REVENUE CUTTER WHERRY

16 hang in the water by attaching weights along the YACHT bottom edge and counteracting floats along the YAWL . SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SN The characteristics of a sailing vessel where her BT FISHING VESSEL type is determined by her masts and sails. SERVICE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel used to maintain supply or assist larger NT BARQUENTINE vessels. Use more specific term. BRIGANTINE CL MARITIME CRAFT FULL RIGGED SHIP NT DIVING SUPPORT VESSEL LUG BOAT FIRE FIGHTING VESSEL SCHOONER HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL LIGHTHOUSE TENDER PILOT VESSEL SN A small and powerful vessel used to assist REPAIR VESSEL vessels that are sinking or disabled at sea. RESCUE VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT SALVAGE VESSEL BT TUG SEWAGE DUMPING VESSEL SALVAGE VESSEL SN A vessel equipped with sealed tanks for SALVAGE VESSEL transporting sewage and dumping it in deep SN A vessel used for the underwater recovery of a water. ship and/or her contents or to assist vessels that CL MARITIME CRAFT are sinking. SEWN BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A type of clinker built wooden boat or ship held BT SERVICE VESSEL together with tendons of flexible such as NT HOVELLER roots and willow branches. Sewn boat SALVAGE TUG construction techniques were used in many parts Schnellboot of the world prior to the development of metal USE E BOAT fasteners. CL MARITIME CRAFT SCHOONER BT CRAFT UF 5 Masted Schooner SHALLOP SN Two masted ship with fore and aft sails and two or more masts. SN A small light vessel with a schooner rig often CL MARITIME CRAFT used for fishing. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL SCHUIT SHEER HULK SN Dutch galliot-rigged vessel used mostly for river trade in Holland but sometimes also for coasting SN Old ship with a hull stripped to the water line and or short sea-going voyages used as a platform for mounting the sheers used CL MARITIME CRAFT to lift masts into and out of sailing ships. BT CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT HULK Scott Class Destroyer Ship USE DESTROYER USE CRAFT SCREW STEAMER SHIP OF THE LINE SN A steam vessel propelled by rotating called screws. SN A with a sufficient numerically large CL MARITIME CRAFT gun armament to stand in the line of battle. RT PADDLE STEAMER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT WARSHIP Second Class Cruiser NT FIFTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE USE CRUISER FIRST RATE SHIP OF THE LINE FOURTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SECOND RATE SHIP OF THE LINE UF 90 Gun Ship SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN A ship of the line mounting between 90 and 98 THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE guns on three gun decks SHIPS BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SHIP OF THE LINE SN Satellite craft belonging to a larger vessel, usually a rowing vessel; used to pick up or set down SEINER passengers or crew when lying offshore, or SN A fishing vessel that catches fish by using a stowed on board as the "long boat" or "" Seining net, that is a large net that is made to for lifesaving purposes.

17 CL MARITIME CRAFT Standby Safety Vessel BT CRAFT NT DINGHY USE RESCUE VESSEL SIXTH RATE SHIP OF THE LINE STORAGE HULK UF 24 Gun Ship SN A demasted old ship used for storing items. 30 Gun Ship CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A small warship mounting between 20 and 28 BT HULK nine-pounder guns on a single deck. NT GRAIN HULK CL MARITIME CRAFT POWDER HULK BT SHIP OF THE LINE STORESHIP SKIFF SN A ship in government use, used to carry naval or SN Small, light, fast, all-purpose craft designed military stores. primarily for inland use. Generally flat-bottomed, CL MARITIME CRAFT often with rocker; sharp bow, sharp or BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL stern, lapstrake or carvel planking. Propelled by Stumpsail Barge oars, sails or motor. Used for fishing and leisure. USE BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT FISHING VESSEL SUBMARINE LEISURE CRAFT UF A Class Submarine SLAVE SHIP B Class Submarine C Class Submarine SN A large cargo vessel, either purpose-fitted or G Class Submarine converted, for the transportation of slaves. J Class Submarine CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel designed to operate below the surface BT CARGO VESSEL of the sea. SLOOP CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A vessel with a single mast, fore and aft rigged. BT WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT NT ATTACK SUBMARINE BT SAILING VESSEL FLEET SUBMARINE HOLLAND SUBMARINE SLOOP OF WAR MIDGET SUBMARINE UF Cherokee Class Sloop MINE LAYING SUBMARINE SN Any small rigged warship below the sailing PATROL SUBMARINE classification of frigate. SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT BT WARSHIP SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER SMACK SN British 'M' class submarine modified to carry and SN Small fishing craft used mainly for fishing, cutter launch a small sea plane. or ketch rigged. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SUBMARINE BT SAILING VESSEL RT AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL SUBMARINE TENDER SN Two masted merchant vessel, rigged as a brig. SN Support or 'mother ship' used for the repair, CL MARITIME CRAFT maintenance and refuelling of submarines, BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL specifically 20th century submarines. CL MARITIME CRAFT SPRITSAIL BARGE BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN A barge with a spritsail rig commonly found on ARMED CARGO VESSEL the River Thames. RT TENDER CL MARITIME CRAFT SUCTION DREDGER BT BARGE NT SN A dredger that works by the use of suction. CL MARITIME CRAFT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL BT DREDGER SN A vessel with a type of where the main SURVEY VESSEL driving sails are fixed to yards which lie square to the mast. SN A craft which is equipped for and performs CL MARITIME CRAFT hydrographic surveys. BT SAILING VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT NT BARQUE Swimhead Barge BRIG PINK USE BARGE PINNACE SNOW

18 Swordfish Class Submarine destroyer, and distinct from the motor torpedo USE PATROL SUBMARINE boat of WWII. CL MARITIME CRAFT TANK BARGE BT GUNBOAT SN A barge fitted with a large tank in its hull for carried liquid cargoes. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER CL MARITIME CRAFT UF Dryad Class Torpedo Boat BT BARGE SN A small fast warship developed in the late nineteenth century. Armed principally with quick TANKER firing guns to destroy enemy torpedo boats. SN A ship designed specifically for the carriage of CL MARITIME CRAFT liquid cargoes, particularly oil. BT DESTROYER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CARGO VESSEL TORPEDO GUNBOAT SN Late nineteenth and early twentieth century TARGET CRAFT warship armed with guns and torpedoes. SN An obsolete vessel used as a weapons target. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT GUNBOAT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL TORPEDO RECOVERY VESSEL TENDER SN A craft used to retrieve torpedoes after practice SN A small vessel attached to a larger vessel firings. (usually a warship) for general harbour duties CL MARITIME CRAFT such as taking crewmen ashore or fetching BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL supplies. CL MARITIME CRAFT TRAINING SHIP BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN Vessels of various types used specifically for NT BOMB SCOW providing an initial training in seamanship. DINGHY CL MARITIME CRAFT RT SUBMARINE TENDER NT REFORMATORY SHIP TERRE NEUVA TRANSPORT VESSEL SN French Banker, fishing vessel for the Grand SN A vessel used for transporting passengers or Banks of , generally three-masted goods. or of brig type, from the late 19th and 20th CL MARITIME CRAFT centuries. NT BOARDING BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT CARGO VESSEL BT FISHING VESSEL CARTEL CASUALTY CLEARING SHIP Thames Barge CONVICT TRANSPORT USE THAMES SAILING BARGE HOVELLER THAMES SAILING BARGE PLATFORM SUPPLY VESSEL UF Thames Barge TRAWLER SN Flat-bottomed barge with shallow draft adapted UF Admiralty Trawler for carrying bulk cargoes among the shoals of Auxiliary Trawler the Thames Estuary; usually spritsail-rigged, SN A fishing vessel specially designed to operate though other rigs were permissible. and trawl for the catching of bottom lying fish. CL MARITIME CRAFT Use with power where known. BT SPRITSAIL BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT NT LUG BOAT BT FISHING VESSEL THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE TRINITY HOUSE VESSEL UF 70 Gun Ship SN Any vessel operated by Trinity house masters 72 Gun Ship and brethren in the maintenance of lighthouses, 74 Gun Ship lightships, buoys and other navigation aids. Dublin Class 74 Gun Ship CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A ship of the line mounting between 64 and 80 NT LIGHTSHIP guns typically built with two gun decks. TROOP SHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SHIP OF THE LINE SN A vessel used for the transport of troops, either during wartime or for garrison duties in Topsail Barge peacetime. USE BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT TORPEDO BOAT BT PASSENGER VESSEL NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL SN Steam-powered torpedo boat developed in the early 20th century, and used in the First World TROW War, a development of the torpedo boat SN A small cargo boat found on the River Severn in

19 England, with a mast which could be taken down U BOAT to allow the boat to pass under low bridges. U BOAT (TYPE U43) CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during the First World War. TUG CL MARITIME CRAFT UF Admiralty Tug BT ATTACK SUBMARINE SN A relatively small and heavily built vessel U BOAT equipped with large engines. Used for towing U BOAT (TYPE U5) ships at sea or manouevring them in tight spaces. CL MARITIME CRAFT SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT the First World War. NT FIRE FIGHTING TUG CL MARITIME CRAFT RESCUE TUG BT ATTACK SUBMARINE SALVAGE TUG U BOAT TURRET IRONCLAD U BOAT (TYPE U81) SN A warship constructed of iron plate with its main SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during armament mounted in a revolving turret on deck. the First World War. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT IRONCLAD BT ATTACK SUBMARINE U BOAT Type Ubi Submarine U BOAT (TYPE U87) USE U BOAT (TYPE UBI) SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during Type Ubii Submarine the First World War. USE U BOAT (TYPE UBII) CL MARITIME CRAFT BT ATTACK SUBMARINE Type Ubiii Submarine U BOAT USE U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) U BOAT (TYPE U93) Type Uci Submarine SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during USE U BOAT (TYPE UCI) the First World War. Type Ucii Submarine CL MARITIME CRAFT BT ATTACK SUBMARINE USE U BOAT (TYPE UCII) U BOAT Type Uciii Submarine U BOAT (TYPE UBI) USE U BOAT (TYPE UCIII) UF Type Ubi Submarine U BOAT SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during UF U Boot the First World War. Unterseeboot CL MARITIME CRAFT SN The British designation for any German BT ATTACK SUBMARINE submarine built for military purposes. U-Boat is an U BOAT anglicization of the German U-Boot, an U BOAT (TYPE UBII) abbreviation for Unterseeboot (Undersea Boat). UF Type Ubii Submarine In German U-Boot refers to any submarine. SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during CL MARITIME CRAFT the First World War. BT SUBMARINE CL MARITIME CRAFT NT U BOAT (TYPE U31) BT ATTACK SUBMARINE U BOAT (TYPE U43) U BOAT U BOAT (TYPE U5) U BOAT (TYPE U81) U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) U BOAT (TYPE U87) UF Type Ubiii Submarine U BOAT (TYPE U93) SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during U BOAT (TYPE UBI) the First World War. The U Boat had 5 torpedo U BOAT (TYPE UBII) tubes (4 bow/1 stern) and carried 10 torpedoes U BOAT (TYPE UBIII) as well as an 88mm (or in some cases 105mm) U BOAT (TYPE UCI) deck gun. U BOAT (TYPE UCII) CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT (TYPE UCIII) BT ATTACK SUBMARINE U BOAT (TYPE UE2) U BOAT U BOAT (TYPE U31) U BOAT (TYPE UCI) SN A German coastal attack submarine in use during UF Type Uci Submarine the First World War. SN A German coastal minelaying submarine in use CL MARITIME CRAFT during the First World War. The U Boat carried 12 BT ATTACK SUBMARINE mines but was otherwise unarmed with no deck

20 gun or torpedo tubes. DESTROYER CL MARITIME CRAFT ESCORT VESSEL BT MINE LAYING SUBMARINE FIRESHIP U BOAT FLOATING BATTERY FLUTE U BOAT (TYPE UCII) GUNBOAT UF Type Ucii Submarine IRONCLAD SN A German coastal minelaying submarine in use LANDING CRAFT during the First World War. In addition to 18 LANDING SHIP TANK mines, the U BOAT also carried 7 torpedoes in 3 LONGSHIP tubes (2 bow/1 stern) and and 88mm or 105mm MINE COUNTERMEASURE VESSEL deck gun. A very successful design, UCIIs sank MINELAYER more than 1800 vessels. MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT CL MARITIME CRAFT NET LAYER BT MINE LAYING SUBMARINE SHIP OF THE LINE U BOAT SLOOP OF WAR U BOAT (TYPE UCIII) SUBMARINE UF Type Uciii Submarine WATER CARRIER SN A German coastal minelaying submarine in use SN A small vessel used to carry fresh water to ships during the First World War. at or in harbour. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT MINE LAYING SUBMARINE BT HARBOUR SERVICE CRAFT U BOAT WATER TAXI U BOAT (TYPE UE2) SN A craft available for public hire for short SN A German coastal minelaying submarine in use journeys. during the First World War. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT PASSENGER VESSEL BT MINE LAYING SUBMARINE WEST INDIAMAN U BOAT SN Any vessel in use by the West India Company. U Boot CL MARITIME CRAFT USE U BOAT BT SAILING VESSEL U Class Submarine WHALE CATCHER USE PATROL SUBMARINE SN A craft employed to whales and bring Unterseeboot them in to be processed. CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT USE BT WHALER VICTORY SHIP WHALE PROCESSING SHIP SN A prefabricated cargo vessel produced in large SN A ship used to process whales into saleable numbers by North American during products. World War II to replace shipping losses caused CL MARITIME CRAFT by German submarines and replacing the earlier BT FACTORY SHIP 'LIBERTY' ships. CL MARITIME CRAFT WHALE UNIT BT CARGO VESSEL SN A floating pier, comprised of a floating pierhead RT LIBERTY SHIP (SPUD) and a roadway resting on pontoons VICTUALLER (BEETLES). The pierhead and roadway were capable of rising and falling with the tide enabling SN A vessel used to carry supplies to warships. unloading of troops and equipment to occur at CL MARITIME CRAFT any state of the tide. BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT Vlieboot BT MULBERRY HARBOUR NT BEETLE UNIT USE FLY BOAT WHALER WARSHIP UF Admiralty Whaler UF Man Of War SN Any vessel involved in the catching or SN A ship that is built and primarily intended for war. transportation of whales. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT NT AIRCRAFT CARRIER BT FISHING VESSEL ANTI AIRCRAFT VESSEL NT WHALE CATCHER ARMED BOARDING STEAMER BATTLECRUISER WHERRY BATTLESHIP SN A decked sailing vessel of shallow draft. CRUISER

21 CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL WORK BOAT SN Generic name for a vessel used for work rather than for recreation, transportation, or military purposes. The vessels include tugs, barges, landing craft, dredgers and standby safety vessels. Use only were the exact type of vessel is unknown. CL MARITIME CRAFT X Craft USE MIDGET SUBMARINE XEBEC SN A small three-masted lateen-rigged vessel used exclusively in the Mediterranean from the 16th to the 19th century. Its hull was similar in form to that of a polacre but with an extended bow and stern. CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL YACHT SN Any vessel propelled by sail or power and used for pleasure and not plying for hire. CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LEISURE CRAFT SAILING VESSEL YAWL SN A craft with two masts.It is usually cutter rigged on the foremast and has a small mizzen mast. CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL

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