Tour ship
A tour ship is a ship that is mainly used by competent authorities to travel to specific destinations. This includes, for example, the monitoring of shipping facilities such as sea marks and lighthouses .
Today tour ships are often found in the fleets of the waterways and shipping authorities . Unlike buoy layers or other ships with technical tasks, a tour ship is used exclusively to transport people to a specific destination, for example to maintain navigation marks, gauges or coastal protection systems.
Tour ships usually have quite simple equipment.
Examples of tour ships
The Mainz on the Rhine
The Schaarhörn
The Ems in the Emden inland port
