Buoy laying machine

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Bucket laying Amrumbank of the WSA Tönning in front of Amrum
Bucket layer "Ranzow" of the WSA Stralsund on Dänholm (2012)
Historic buoy laying buzzard (built in 1906, today a museum ship)

A buoy laying ship is a special ship that is primarily used to lay out and haul in "buoys" ( navigation signs for the identification of fairways and the like).

There are buoy layers in different sizes. Often these are vehicles with a length of 20 meters, a width of six to seven meters and a draft of 1.30 to 1.60 meters. The permanent crew is almost always small.

In addition to their main task, the issuing of navigation marks, buoy layers serve many different purposes: These include the transport of people and materials, supervision and control trips, beacon setting , traffic safety tasks , obstacle recovery, assistance in case of accidents and direction finding work for sea ​​surveying and structures as well as port and excavator bearings. For these orders fulfillment they have hydraulic cranes and winches, multibeam systems and GPS radiolocation.

An earlier name for such ships is barrel buoy .

Web links

Commons : Bucket Layers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.wsv.de