Category:Ships by function

• Ships by country by function or type (73 C)

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• Ferries by function (6 C)

A

• Accommodation platforms (12 C, 1 F)
• Accommodation ships (10 C, 1 F)
• Advertising ships (1 C)
• Airbus ships (3 C, 2 F)
• Anchorhandling, tug and supply ships (321 C, 12 F)
• Ships as artificial reefs (89 C, 1 F)

B

• Barge hotels (11 C, 3 F)
• Barracks vessels (1 C)
• Block ships (8 C, 8 F)
• Bulk carriers (ships) (1535 C, 1 P, 64 F)
• Buoy tenders (50 C, 37 F)

C

• Cable-laying ships (127 C, 52 F)
• Cannery tenders (11 C, 21 F)
• Cannery transport ships (7 C, 16 F)
• Car carriers (384 C, 1 P, 20 F)
• Cargo ships (57 C, 132 F)
• Casino ships (9 C, 4 F)
• Chapel ships (14 C, 9 F)
• Chemical tankers (1720 C, 5 F)
• CNG carriers (1 C, 1 F)
• Coal ships (7 C, 33 F)
• Construction support vessels (74 C, 2 F)
• Convict ships (6 C, 1 F)
• Crane ships (149 C, 104 F)
• Crane transport ships (16 C)
• Crew transfer vessels (73 C, 2 F)

D

• Derrick ship (1 C, 15 F)
• Dormitory ships (1 C, 1 F)
• Dredge ships (53 C, 163 F)
• Drilling ships (55 C, 16 F)

E

• Ensilage vessels (5 C)
• Exhibition ships (11 C)
• Experimental ships (7 C, 4 F)
• Exploration ships (28 C, 38 F)

F

• Factory ships (7 C, 1 F)
• Ferries (39 C, 1 P, 392 F)
• Fire ships (4 C, 57 F)
• Fireboats (10 C, 1 P, 12 F)
• Fish carriers (ships) (17 C, 2 F)
• Fishing ships (42 C, 1 P, 120 F)
• Floating landing platforms (2 C)
• Floating launch platforms (1 C)
• Floating timber tugboats (1 F)

G

• Gambling ships (3 C, 10 F)
• Government ships (12 C)
• Grain ships (9 C, 31 F)

H

• Heavy-lift ships (164 C, 28 F)
• Hospital ships (27 C, 55 F)
• Hotel ships (48 C, 21 F)

I

• Icebreakers (22 C, 1 P, 50 F)
• Inn ships (1 C)

J

• Jewish immigrant ships (2 C, 3 F)

L

• Floating laboratories (2 C, 16 F)
• Leper ships (1 F)
• Lighthouse tenders (23 C, 11 F)
• Lightships (3 C, 1 P, 28 F)
• Live fish carriers (65 C, 9 F)
• Livestock carriers (74 C, 13 F)
• LNG carriers (199 C, 1 P, 52 F)
• LPG tankers (241 C, 7 F)

M

• Merchant ships (16 C, 145 F)
• Missionary ships (9 C, 9 F)
• Mission ships (3 C, 5 F)
• Museum ships (11 C, 25 F)

N

• Naval ships (84 C, 141 F)
• Nuclear fuel carriers (11 C, 1 F)

O

• Offshore supply vessels (77 C, 1 F)
• Offshore support vessels (347 C, 23 F)
• Oil tankers (2072 C, 1 P, 136 F)
• Ore carriers (15 C, 2 F)

P

• Palletised cargo ships (19 C)
• Passenger ships (35 C, 55 F)
• Passenger-cargo ships (175 C, 11 F)
• Patrol vessels (9 C, 160 F)
• Penal transportation ships (2 C, 3 F)
• Pirate radio ships (12 C, 4 F)
• Platform supply vessels (209 C, 16 F)
• Port tenders (11 C, 1 F)
• Postal ships (3 C, 2 F)
• Prison ships (17 C, 40 F)

R

• Radio ships (4 C)
• Reefer ships (566 C, 94 F)
• Rescue ships (50 C, 20 F)
• Research ships (37 C, 2 P, 26 F)
• Restaurant ships (54 C, 22 F)
• River cruise ships (837 C, 60 F)
• Royal barges (3 C, 23 F)
• Rum runners (2 C, 11 F)

S

• Salvage ships (3 C)
• Scouting ships (7 C, 5 F)
• Sealing (ships) (6 C, 4 F)
• Seismographic research ships (34 C, 2 F)
• Service vessels (40 C, 16 F)
• Slaughter boats (16 C)
• Slave ships (25 C, 124 F)
• Space exploration-related ships (4 C, 3 F)
• Supply ships (74 C, 7 F)
• Support vessel (2 C)
• Survey ships (57 C, 60 F)

T

• Tankers (198 C, 88 F)
• Theatre ships (29 C, 4 F)
• Tracking ships (6 C, 7 F)
• Training ships (40 C, 23 F)
• Troop ships (21 C, 24 F)
• Tugboats (33 C, 1 P, 347 F)

W

• Waste collecting barges (3 C, 3 F)
• Waste disposal vessels (46 C, 9 F)
• Water tankers (34 C, 2 F)
• Water taxis (10 C, 2 P, 65 F)
• Well intervention vessels (11 C)
• Whale watching ships (5 C, 37 F)
• Whaling vessels (31 C, 179 F)
• Wood chips carriers (29 C)

Y

• Yacht support vessels (3 C)
• Yachts of heads of state (25 C, 10 F)