Specialised Vessel

Naval/Specialized Vessels

A Naval ship is a military ship or boat used by a Navy. Naval ships are generally damage resilient and armed with weapon systems, even though armament can be light or non-existent.

Speciality vessels are constructed and used for specific purposes:

• Tug is a boat or ship that renders assistance to other vessels by towing them.
• Tender is a boat or a larger ship used to service or support other boats or ships, generally to transport people and/or supplies.
• Pilot Crafts are used for the transportation of harbour pilots.
• Cable laying vessels help in laying cables onto the seabed. 
• Research vessels can be seismic vessels, hydrographic vessels, oceanographic vessels, polar vessels etc.
• Salvage vessels are used in salvage and recovery operations.
• A barge is a flat-bottomed boat utilised for river and canal transport of goods.
• Ice breakers are used for cutting through ice for movement under extreme cold weather conditions.