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A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys. This term can also apply to an actual person who does this work.

USCGC *Obion*, a river buoy tender, maintaining navigational buoys on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky.

The United States Coast Guard uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missions of maintaining all U.S. aids to navigation (ATON).^[1]

The Canadian Coast Guard uses multi-use vessels (most being icebreakers) with tasks including buoy tending.^[2]

Types of coast guard buoy tenders edit

Maritime Gendarmerie buoy tender Provence

United States Coast Guard

240' USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30)
225' USCG seagoing buoy tender (WLB)
175' USCG coastal buoy tender (WLM)
100' USCG inland buoy tender (WLI)
100' USCG inland construction tender (WLIC)
75' River buoy tender (WLR)
75' Inland construction tender (WLIC)
65' River buoy tender (WLR)
65' Inland buoy tender (WLI)
49' Buoy utility stern loading boat (BUSL)
Other miscellaneous aids to navigation boats

CCGS buoy tender Samuel Risley

Canadian Coast Guard

References edit

^ "Aids to Navigation – Mapping the Waters | GoCoastGuard.com". www.gocoastguard.com. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
^ "Icebreaker Fleet". Canadian Coast Guard. May 6, 2019.

[1] "Aids to Navigation – Mapping the Waters | GoCoastGuard.com". www.gocoastguard.com. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

[2] "Icebreaker Fleet". Canadian Coast Guard. May 6, 2019.

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Types of coast guard buoy tenders edit

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