Different types of ship

Ship: A ship is a unsymmetrical large buoyant watercraft, large range of sizes designed to
float, plan, work or travel on water by following the rules of IMO.

Classification of ship: Ships are classified in type according to their materials construction
and operation.

According to materials construction:

a) Wooden ship b) Iron ship
b) Steel ship d) Fiber ship

According to operation:
a) Commercial ship b) Industrial ship
c) Service ship

Commercial ship: 1. General cargo ship ------- i) Refrigerated Cargo Ship

ii) Passenger/General Cargo Ship

iii) Deck Cargo Ship
iv) Palletized Cargo Ship

2. Specialized cargo ship ---- i) Stone Carrier

ii) Log-Tipping Ship
iii) Nuclear Fuel Carrier
iv) Heavy Load Carrier
v) Barge Carrier
vi) Livestock Carrier

3. Roll on Ro off ship ------ i) Ro-Ro Cargo Ship

ii) Vehicles Carrier
iii) Container Ro-Ro Cargo Ship

4. Bulk carrier ------------------ i) Ore/Oil Carrier

ii) Bulk Carrier
iii) Powder Carrier
iv) Bulk/Oil Carrier
v) Aggregates Carrier
vi) Self-Discharging Bulk Carrier
 vii) Cement Carrier
viii) Wood Chips Carrier
ix) Refined Sugar Carrier
x) Alumina Carrier
xi) Limestone Carrier
xii) Ore Carrier

5.Oil tanker ------------------- i) Chemical Tanker

ii)Chemical/Oil Products Tanker
iii) Crude Oil Tanker
iv) Oil Products Tanker

6. Gas tanker ----------------- i) LPG Tanker

ii) LNG Tanker

7. Others tanker ------------- i) Wine Tanker

ii) Vegetable Oil Tanker
iii) Water Tanker
iv) Fruit Juice Tanker
v) Molasses Tanker
vi) Oil-Sludge Tanker
vii) Edible Oil Tanker
viii) Bitumen Tanker

8. Ferry-------------------------- i) Passenger ferry

ii) Car carrying ferry

9. Passenger ship ----------- i) Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship

ii) Passenger (Cruise) Ship
iii) Launch
10. Container ship
11. Barge carrier
12. Heavy lift ship
13. Cattle ship
14. Barges

Industrial ship: 1. Oceanographic ship 2. Ocean inning ship

3. Hydrographic research ship 4. Hopper dredger

5. Fish catching ship 6. Fish processing ship

 7. Suction dredgers 8.Drilling ship

Service ship: 1. Search & Rescue Vessel 16. Salvage Ship

2. Buoy/Lighthouse Vessel 17. Work/Repair Vessel

3. Hospital Vessel 18. Other Non-Merchant Ships
4. Sail Training Ship 19. Utility Vessel
5. Research Vessel 20. Naval/Naval Auxiliary
6. Training Ship 21.Pollution Control Vessel
7. Fire-Fighting Vessel 22. Waste Disposal Vessel
8. Cable-Layer 23. Icebreaker
9. Crane Ship 24. Dredger
10. Hopper Dredger 25. House boat

11. Crew boat 26. Pilot boat

12. Fire boat 27. Yatch

13. Submergible ship 28. Tow boat

14.Driving support ship 29. Tug boati) Pusher Tug

ii)Tug

15. Battle ship 30. Offshore supplying ship --- i) Pipe-Layer

ii) Offshore Supply Ship
iii)Offshore Tug
iv) Supply Vessel
v) Offshore Processing Ship
vi) Well-Stimulation Vessel
vii) Standby-Safety Vessel
viii) Production Testing Vessel
ix) Offshore Support Vessel

Description: There are many ship with huge type in different categories. The Description
of some different ships are given below:

Cargo Ships:Cargo ships are generally used to transport cargo safely from one place to
another. They will have a ship with a multi-deck or single-deck hull. There are thousands
of cargo ships on the move around the world, transporting good across the globe. They
are crucial to international trade. Cargo ships can transport things such as food,
petroleum, furniture, metals, clothes and machinery.
 Bulk carriers: Like general cargo ships bulk carriers will have large hydraulic hatches
covering the holds, but will not have any overhead rigging. Bulk carriers are used for
things such as grain, ore, wood chips, etc, that can be poured down into a hold. They will
load and off-load at special port terminals for whatever cargo they may carry. Sometimes
the holds must be steamed cleaned by laborers when the ship is set to carry a different
cargo than the one that it unloaded. The average bulk carrier ship is around 800 feet
long.

Auto carriers: These are huge ships that are nothing more than floating parking garages.
They can hold between 2,000 and 4,000 vehicles. Ramps are lowered out of the side of
the ship and the vehicles are driven off. The average auto carrier is about 600 feet long,
100 feet wide, and over 100 feet tall.

Container ships: These ships are designed to carry large steel containers that are usually
20 feet or 40 feet long, eight feet wide and eight feet tall. These ships are loaded and off
loaded by large cranes to and from trucks. There are some that are also designed where
the bow opens up and barges are pulled in that have containers on them. Container
ships are limited to ports that have container terminals.The advantage of using
containers is that all the cargo in each container will be destine for some location away
from the port taken there by either truck or rail. This does away with the warehouses
that are needed for general cargo ships where the cargo is divided up and loaded into
truck trailers or railcars. Container ships come in many different sizes; some now are
incredibly huge.

Tankers: Tankers are ships that primarily carry huge quantities of liquid. They can carry a
wide range of liquids such as oil, water, wine and lots of different chemicals that need
transporting. They come in lots of different sizes but some of the larger vessels have the
capacity to carry several hundred thousand tons.

Ferries and Cruise ships: Ferries usually perform short journeys for a mix of passengers,
cars and commercial vehicles. Most of these ships are Ro-Ro (roll on - roll off) ferries,
where vehicles can drive straight on and off, making it a speedy and easily accessible
way to travel. Demand for cruise ships expanded rapidly during the 1980s, leading to a
new generation of large and luxurious 'floating hotels'.
 RoRo (Roll on Roll Off): Most vehicles that are being transported over water
internationally are done on a Roll on Roll off ship. The reason this ship is so popular to
transport vehicles is that its safer and much faster to just drive a car onto the ship than
using a crane. Once the cars are aboard, they are braced to the ships deck to keep them
from moving around while the ship is at sea.

Passenger Ships: Passenger ships are officially defined as ships that carry more than 12
passengers. If you own a passenger ship then you will need to abide by strict safety
regulations. There have been several disasters with passenger ships lately so the rules
and regulations have been updated in a bid to try and improve safety. Passengers should
be able to travel in a safe and comfortable environment. Passenger ships also include
cruise and holiday ships.

High Speed Craf: High speed crafts are also sometimes called fast ferries. They are
mainly designed for civilian use as passenger ferries. They also include hovercrafts,
catamarans and hydrofoil boats. High speed crafts are able to go faster because they use
air pressure and powerful turbine propellers.

Fishing vessels: Most people think of fishing vessels as being just boats, but in today's
industrial world many of these vessels are as large as some ships and, in some cases,
they are converted general cargo ships. The following are different types of fishing
vessels:

A. Fishing boats - These may be as long as 90 feet and will have refrigerated holds.

B. Processors - These ships not only catch fish, but also within them there is a factory to
completely process the fish. The factory deck will be right under the main deck and the
fish come in and they are cleaned, filleted and packaged.

C. Non-fishing processors - These are a rather new type of ship that a few multinational
corporations use. All that I have seen have been converted general cargo ships that have
huge factory decks and refrigerated holds.

Oil industry vessels: These are the vessels that are used by the oil industry in offshore
drilling. These include work and living barges, supply boats, and pipeline vessels. The
 pipeline vessels will have huge rolls of pipe that they roll out into the water to connect
the offshore oil well with an onshore facility.

Tow and tug boats: These are small vessels that generally have two powerful engines.
Towboats are used for moving barges while tugboats are used to move ships, in most
cases to dock them.

Barges: These are unpowered vessels that require a towboat to move. Barges are used
to transport different cargoes of which there are three basic types: there is the sunken
hold type for such things as grain and ore, the flat top type for such things as containers
and the tanker barges for liquids and gases. There are also barges for many other
purposes; living barges, work barges, crane barges to name a few.