Salvage ship

Salvage ship (also: Bergeschiff ) is a summary term for ship types whose task is the recovery of other watercraft , cargo , crew or other people. This includes:

• Lifting ships for lifting sunken shipwrecks and material: An early German salvage ship was the submarine lifting ship SMS Vulkan , built before the First World War .
• Salvage tugs that tow immobilized ships
• Salvage submarines :
  • to rescue the crews of submerged submarines (see rescue submarine )
  • for cannibalizing shipwrecks
• Ships for the recovery of return capsules from spaceships and their crews that have landed in the sea
• Cargo ships with devices to recover the cargo from stranded ships
• in underwater archeology, the ship on which the recovered finds are stored (there is usually a basic conservation laboratory on board)

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  NASA's Freedom Star work ship transporting a discarded solid fuel booster from the STS-114 mission at the Kennedy Space Center in 2005

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  Drone recovery vessels ( Drone Recovery Ships of the US Air Force (82 ATRS))

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  Nordic sea ​​rescue tug

See also

• Rescue boat , motor lifeboat , rescue boat , lifeboat
• Fireboat
• Distress

Web links

• Entry salvage steamer in Otto Lueger : Lexicon of all technology , 2nd edition 1904 (on zeno.org )