A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational

buoy A buoy () is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents. Types Navigational buoys * Race course marker buoys are used for buoy racing, the most prevalent form of y ...

s. This term can also apply to an actual person who does this work. The

United States Coast Guard The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services. The service is a maritime, military, m ...

uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of maintaining all U.S. aids to navigation (ATON). The

Canadian Coast Guard The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; french: links=no, Garde côtière canadienne, GCC) is the coast guard of Canada. Formed in 1962, the coast guard is tasked with marine search and rescue (SAR), communication, navigation, and transportation issues ...

uses multi-use vessels (most being icebreakers) with tasks including buoy tending.

Types of coast guard buoy tenders

United States Coast Guard *240' *225' USCG seagoing buoy tender (WLB) *175'

USCG coastal buoy tender The United States Coast Guard commissioned a new Keeper class of coastal buoy tenders in the 1990s that are 175 feet (53 m) in length and named after lighthouse keepers. Keeper-class cutters serve the Coast Guard in a variety of missions and a ...

(WLM) *100' USCG inland buoy tender ( WLI) *100'

USCG inland construction tender An inland construction tender is a type of ship used to build and service shore structures such as piers and buoy trestles. It is also used to maintain buoys and aids to navigation. Less frequently, they may be used for law enforcement, environmen ...

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) * 75'

River buoy tender A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...

( WLR) * 75'

Inland construction tender Inland may refer to: Places Sweden * Inland Fräkne Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Northern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Southern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Torpe Hundred, a hundred ...

(

) * 65'

( WLR) * 65'

Inland buoy tender Inland may refer to: Places Sweden * Inland Fräkne Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Northern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Southern Hundred, a hundred of Bohuslän in Sweden * Inland Torpe Hundred, a hundred ...

( WLI) * 49'

Buoy utility stern loading boat A buoy () is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents. Types Navigational buoys * Race course marker buoys are used for buoy racing, the most prevalent form of y ...

(BUSL) * Other miscellaneous aids to navigation boats Canadian Coast Guard *272' *272' *228' *228' *198' *180' *179' *180' *144' *125' *66'

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Boat types * * Ships of the United States Lighthouse Service {{ship-type-stub

Types of coast guard buoy tenders

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