FISH TERMINOLOGIES Maritime Craft Type Thesaurus Report Format: Hierarchical listing - alpha Notes: A thesaurus of maritime craft. Date: February 2021 100 Gun Ship Admiralty Trawler USE FIRST RATE SHIP OF THE LINE 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 Collier Admiralty Drifter 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 Whaler SN Any vessel which has been hired or impressed 5 Masted Schooner 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 BOAT USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN A small, fast boat used for carrying orders 72 Gun Ship between sailing vessels. CL MARITIME CRAFT USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL 74 Gun Ship AIRCRAFT CARRIER USE THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE SN A major warship equipped with a clear flat deck 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 Submarine BT WARSHIP USE SUBMARINE RT AIRCRAFT CATAPULT 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 ARMED MERCHANTMAN Admiralty Drifter RT AIRCRAFT CARRIER USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL SUBMARINE SEAPLANE CARRIER DRIFTER AMMUNITION BARGE SN Use both terms. SN Shallow draft vessel used to carry ammunition. Admiralty Lighter CL MARITIME CRAFT USE ADMIRALTY VESSEL BT BARGE LIGHTER AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE SN Use both terms. SN Vehicle either adapted, or purpose-built, to Admiralty Netlayer operate on both land and sea, for example a tank 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 cruisers 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 HOPPER BARGE SN A small warship (often adapted from a trawler or LUG BOAT drifter) used to hunt enemy submarines. MOORING BUOY LIFTER BARGE CL MARITIME CRAFT MUD BARGE BT ESCORT VESSEL PILE DRIVING BARGE REFUGE BARGE ARMED BOARDING STEAMER SPRITSAIL BARGE SN Mercantile vessel converted during the First TANK BARGE World War for the purposes of examining and BARQUE boarding enemy vessels. SN A sailing vessel, generally with three masts, CL MARITIME CRAFT square rigged on the fore and main mast. BT WARSHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT ARMED CARGO VESSEL BT SQUARE RIGGED VESSEL SN A vessel used for carrying cargoes, fitted with BARQUENTINE defensive weapons. 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 <BY RIG> NT SUBMARINE TENDER BARRAGE BALLOON VESSEL Ascot Class Minesweeper SN A vessel used as a platform for flying a barrage USE MINESWEEPER balloon from. ATTACK SUBMARINE CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL BT SUBMARINE Basilisk Class Destroyer NT U BOAT (TYPE U31) USE DESTROYER U BOAT (TYPE U43) U BOAT (TYPE U5) BATTLECRUISER U BOAT (TYPE U81) SN A capital warship lightly armoured but with the U BOAT (TYPE U87) same gun armament and stem turbine propulsion U BOAT (TYPE U93) as a DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP. U BOAT (TYPE UBI) CL MARITIME CRAFT U BOAT (TYPE UBII) 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 Launch BAWLEY USE MOTOR LAUNCH SN A small coastal fishing vessel peculiar to Kent, B Class Submarine cutter rigged. USE SUBMARINE CL MARITIME CRAFT BT SAILING VESSEL <BY FORM/TYPE> BANKER BEETLE UNIT SN A fishing vessel employed exclusively on the Grand Banks cod fisheries. 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 anchors. CL MARITIME CRAFT BARGE BT WHALE UNIT UF Roads Barge BILLYBOY Stumpsail Barge Swimhead Barge SN Single masted east coast trading vessel, ketch Topsail Barge rigged or single masted. SN Shallow draft cargo vessel, often broad beamed CL MARITIME CRAFT and flat bottomed, powered by engine and or sail. BT SAILING VESSEL <BY FORM/TYPE> CL MARITIME CRAFT BLOCK SHIP BT CARGO VESSEL NT AMMUNITION BARGE SN A hulk or obsolete vessel filled with cement or CRANE BARGE similar material and scuttled to block an entrance 3 to a port or anchorage, usually as a defensive the foremast and fore and aft rigged on the main measure. mast. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT BOARDING BOAT BT SAILING VESSEL <BY RIG> 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 boats by using a continuous chain of buckets the Royal National Lifeboat 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 Dutch barge-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 CABIN 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 <BY FORM/TYPE> CL MARITIME CRAFT BT LEISURE CRAFT Boier NT CABIN CRUISER USE BOEIER CABIN CRUISER BOMB SCOW 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 ships which are substantially larger. BT TENDER CL MARITIME CRAFT BT CABIN CRAFT BOMB VESSEL CABLE LAYER 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. MONITOR. CL MARITIME CRAFT CL MARITIME CRAFT Cam Ship BT GUNBOAT 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 paddle. 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 privateer, usually BOOM 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 Frigate BT NAVAL SUPPORT VESSEL USE FRIGATE (NON SAIL) BRIG CARAVEL SN Two masted vessel with a square rig 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 <BY FORM/TYPE> BRIGANTINE 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 plane. BT TRANSPORT VESSEL CL MARITIME CRAFT NT ARMED CARGO VESSEL BT AIRCRAFT CATAPULT VESSEL BARGE CHAIN FERRY BULK ORE CARRIER SN A small ferry powered by steam or diesel engine, COASTER which pull vessel from one side of a river COLLIER crossing along submerged chains. CONTAINER SHIP CL MARITIME CRAFT DROMOND BT FERRY DRY BULK CARGO CARRIER FLUIT CHASSE MAREE FREIGHTER UF Chasse Marie GALEAS SN French coasting vessel HULK (SAIL) CL MARITIME CRAFT LIBERTY SHIP BT SAILING VESSEL <BY FORM/TYPE> LIVESTOCK SHIP NARROW BOAT Chasse Marie PASSENGER VESSEL USE CHASSE MAREE PUFFER Cherokee Class Sloop SLAVE SHIP TANKER USE SLOOP OF WAR VICTORY SHIP CLIPPER CARRACK SN Generic term for fast sailing ships with schooner SN A three masted vessel with a square rig on the rig and fine hull lines. fore and main masts and lateen rig on the mizzen CL MARITIME CRAFT mast. BT SAILING VESSEL <BY FORM/TYPE> CL MARITIME CRAFT COAL HULK BT SAILING VESSEL <BY FORM/TYPE> SN Old ship converted to a floating coal store.