Buoy tender
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A buoy tender is a type of vessel
used to maintain and replace navigational buoy
s. The name is also used for someone who works on such a vessel and maintains buoys.
The United States Coast Guard
uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of maintaining all U. S. Aids to Navigation
(ATON).
The Canadian Coast Guard
uses multi-use vessels (icebreaker and navigation aid) with the buoy tender platform.
Canadian Coast Guard
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a...
used to maintain and replace navigational buoy
Buoy
A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes. It can be anchored or allowed to drift. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is now most commonly in UK English, although some orthoepists have traditionally prescribed the pronunciation...
s. The name is also used for someone who works on such a vessel and maintains buoys.
The United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of maintaining all U. S. Aids to Navigation
Navigational aid
A navigational aid is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or aviation travel...
(ATON).
The Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Coast Guard
The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking...
uses multi-use vessels (icebreaker and navigation aid) with the buoy tender platform.
Types of CG buoy tenders
US Coast Guard- 240' USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)USCGC Mackinaw is a vessel built as a heavy icebreaker for operations on the North American Great Lakes for the United States Coast Guard. IMO number: 9271054...
- 225' USCG Seagoing Buoy TenderUSCG Seagoing Buoy TenderThe Seagoing Buoy Tender is a type of U.S. Coast Guard cutter originally designed to service aids to navigation, throughout the waters of the United States, and wherever U.S. shipping interests require. The Coast Guard has maintained a fleet of seagoing buoy tenders dating back to its origins in...
(WLB) - 175' USCG Coastal Buoy TenderUSCG Coastal Buoy TenderThe United States Coast Guard commissioned a new Keeper-class of coastal buoy tenders in the 1990s that are 175 feet in length and named after Lighthouse keepers.Keeper Class cutters serve the Coast Guard in a variety of missions...
(WLM) - 100' Inland Buoy Tender (WLI)
- 100' Inland Construction Tender (WLIC)
- 75' River Buoy Tender (WLR)
- 75' Inland Construction Tender (WLIC)
- 65' River Buoy Tender (WLR)
- 65' Inland Buoy Tender (WLI)
Canadian Coast Guard
- 272' CCGS Ann HarveyCCGS Ann HarveyCCGS Ann Harvey is a Canadian Coast Guard Buoy tender and SAR vessel with Light icebreaker duties. She was constructed in 1987 by Halifax Dartmouth Industries, in Halifax, Nova Scotia....
- 272' CCGS George R. PearkesCCGS George R. PearkesThe CCGS George R. Pearkes is a light icebreaker and buoy support vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard.George R. Pearkes is a High Endurance Multi-Tasked Vessel Light Icebreaker and Buoy tender. She was built in 1986 by Versatile Pacific Shipyards Limited of Vancouver, BCGeorge Pearkes' home port is St...
- 228' CCGS Earl GreyCCGS Earl GreyCCGS Earl Grey is a Medium-endurance Multi-tasked Vessel in the Canadian Coast Guard.She serves a variety of roles, including light ice-breaking and buoy tending, as well as being strengthened for navigation in ice to perform tasking along the shores off PEI...
- 228' CCGS Samuel RisleyCCGS Samuel RisleyThe CCGS Samuel Risley is a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker and buoy tender assigned to the Upper Great Lakes area ....
- 198' CCGS Alexander HenryCCGS Alexander HenryCCGS Alexander Henry is a former Canadian Coast Guard Light icebreaker and Buoy tender in the Great Lakes.She is currently a museum ship preserved at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, Ontario. During the summer months it is also operated as a bed and breakfast.Built at Port Arthur...
- 180' CGS AberdeenCGS AberdeenCGS Aberdeen was a Canadian Government Ship launched in 1894, which served as a Lighthouse supply and buoy vessel. Originally flush-decked and able to set fore and aft sail, she was later rebuilt with a high foc'sle and a heavy derrick forward...
- 179' CCGS SimcoeCCGS SimcoeThe CCGS Simcoe, built in 1962, was one of the longest serving vessels in the Canadian Coast Guard Fleet at 45 years. It was the last ship of the original official Coast Guard fleet, created in 1962 to be decommissioned....
- 180' CGS Simcoe (1909)CGS Simcoe (1909)CGS Simcoe was a a 913 tonne lighthouse supply and buoy vessel of the Canadian government.She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine, generating 217 horse power....
- 144' CCGS C.P. EdwardsCCGS C.P. EdwardsThe CCGS C.P. Edwards was a Canadian Coast Guard ship.Commissioned as a coast freighter in 1946 with name Ottawa Mahill, it was commissioned in 1947 as the CCG C.P...
- 125' CCGS BrantCCGS BrantCCGS Brant was a Canadian Coast Guard Ship operating as a navigation aids vessel between 1928 and 1966.Commissioned in 1928, as CGS Brant , she saw service as a navigation aids vessel in the Department of Transport's Marine Service, stationed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.With the creation of the...
Additional reading
- United States Coast GuardUnited States Coast GuardThe United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...
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See also
- USCG Coastal Buoy TenderUSCG Coastal Buoy TenderThe United States Coast Guard commissioned a new Keeper-class of coastal buoy tenders in the 1990s that are 175 feet in length and named after Lighthouse keepers.Keeper Class cutters serve the Coast Guard in a variety of missions...
- USCG Inland Buoy TenderUSCG Inland Buoy TenderThere are two classes of USCG Inland Buoy Tenders.The 100-foot Class Inland Buoy Tenders consists of the following boats:*USCGC Bluebell ; Portland, Oregon, *USCGC Buckthorn ; Sault Ste...
- USCG Seagoing Buoy TenderUSCG Seagoing Buoy TenderThe Seagoing Buoy Tender is a type of U.S. Coast Guard cutter originally designed to service aids to navigation, throughout the waters of the United States, and wherever U.S. shipping interests require. The Coast Guard has maintained a fleet of seagoing buoy tenders dating back to its origins in...