Civil ships are mainly represented by transport and fishing vessels ensuring normal operation of which other types of ships are designed. These ships ensure peaceful relations between states (foreign trade, business and cultural relations), extraction of sea products, their processing, etc.
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Depending on their main purpose, civil ships are divided into the following types:
Transport ships
In the maritime fleet they are often called merchant ships, which in turn are divided into:
- Passenger, designed to carry at least 12 passengers and a small amount of urgent cargo (luggage, mail, etc.);
- Cargo ships for carrying various cargoes; depending on the peculiarities of the cargoes these vessels are divided into dry-cargo ships (general cargo, bulk cargoes, lumber carriers, cotton-carriers, track and container ships), refrigerator ships (for carrying perishable goods) and tankers, or liquid carriers carrying liquid cargoes in bulk;
- Cargo-passenger ships - for carrying passengers and simultaneously cargo.
Transport liner ships which make regular voyages between two definite ports (for example, Leningrad - London) are called liners. Cargo ships, transporting cargoes not in definite lines, but in any direction (depending on transportation needs - tramp vessels), are called tramp;
Ferries, self-propelled vessels carrying various means of land transportation and people across waters - seas, straits, lakes, rivers, etc.
Fishing boats
Mining sea products (fish, sea animals, seaweed, etc.), processing (into semi-finished or finished products) and transporting them to onshore or offshore bases.
These vessels are subdivided into:
- Fishing vessels for catching fish in different ways;
- Whaling ships, specially designed for whale hunting (they have a harpoon gun in their bow) and for towing whale carcasses to the floating plants;
- Sea-beast ships - small motor-sail ships of small displacement, adapted for navigating in ice conditions to the rookeries of sea animals (walruses, seals, etc), their plucking and delivery of carcasses to the base;
- Floating bases - vessels which service fisheries in remote areas: accept their catch from whaling and sealing vessels, process it into finished products, store it in refrigerator holds as well as provide supply and repair of fishing vessels, medical, cultural and amenity services for their personnel;
- Fish canneries - vessels, which are both floating bases and plants producing canned fish from the products, produced by fishing vessels;
- Production reefer ships - vessels that receive raw fish from fishing vessels, freeze it and deliver it to the port or other vessels;
- Transport refrigerator vessels designed to receive finished fish products in the fishery and transport them to shore bases.