Boat types

alt=Large roll-on roll-off ferry carrying passengers and vehicles across open water|thumb|Passenger and vehicle ferry in coastal waters A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus.

thumb|upright=1.35|Lookout, transport steamer on the Tennessee River, 1860–1865 thumb|upright=1.35|Dutch river steam-tugboat Mascotte II A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. The term steamboat is used to refer to small steam-powered vessels working on lakes, rivers, and in short-sea shipping. The development of the steamboat led to the larger steamship, which is a seaworthy and often ocean-going ship.

thumb|upright=1.35|Tugboat CSS Teaser|CSS Teaser is captured by USS Maratanza. thumb|Justine McAllister, a tug boat in New York Harbor, January 2008 thumb|The tugboats Reid McAllister and McAllister Responder push the LPG tanker BW Volans into port at Marcus Hook on the Delaware River.

naval watercraft designed for monitoring sea and littoral areas

thumb|A dhow in the Indian Ocean, near the islands of [[Zanzibar on the Swahili coast]] thumb|Fishermen's dhows moored at Dubai in 2014

boat or ship used to catch fish on a body of water

thumb|A houseboat on Lake Union in [[Seattle, Washington, US|alt=A houseboat on Lake Union in Seatlle, Washington, US]] thumb|Houseboat Cornelia in Ystad, Sweden, 2018

Nordic ships of the Viking Age

small warship armed with anti-ship missiles

type of boat

open motorboat

thumb|USA 17 (yacht)|USA-17—a trimaran, type BOR90. thumb|A traditional paraw double-outrigger sailboat (bangka) from the Philippines A trimaran (or double-outrigger) is a multihull boat that comprises a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls (or "floats") which are attached to the main hull with lateral beams. Most modern trimarans are sailing yachts designed for recreation or racing; others are ferries or warships. They originated from the traditional double-outrigger hulls of the Austronesian cultures of Maritime Southeast Asia; particularly in the Philippines and Eastern Indonesia, wher

thumb|right|London Fire Brigade fireboat, [[River Thames, London]] thumb|right|Toronto Fireboat WL Mackenzie thumb|right|Onboard view of Fireboat John J. Harvey in [[Tauba Auerbach dazzle camouflage performing a water pumping demonstration in Oyster Bay, New York with artificial rainbow visible]] thumb|right|Italian fireboat CLASS M thumb|right|A fireboat of the fire department of Frankfurt, Germany thumb|right|HKFS fireboat Excellence thumb|right|San Francisco fireboat Phoenix thumb|right|Deluge, retired fire fighting tug thumb|Tokyo Fire Department's Ariake fireboat thumb|The Edward M. Cotte

thumb|Water bike on Lake St. Clair (Michigan) thumb|Pedalo at the Stockholm Exhibition (1930)|Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 thumb|A paddle boat on Geneva Lake (Wisconsin). thumbtime=3|thumb|right|Boats in Japan celebrating spring with a swan pedalo accidentally running into a row boat, 2022 thumb|Pedalos in Brazil (called pedalinhos) thumb|Human-powered watercraft: aqua-cycle water trikes in the [[Pacific Ocean with Diamond Head, Hawaii in the background]] thumb|Paddle boats on the Inner Harbor in [[Baltimore]]

a boat functioning as a taxi or a bus

thumbnail|Various service riverboats, Belgrade thumb|Passenger tourboat of Köln-Düsseldorfer on the river [[Rhine]] thumb | A riverboat-"container ship" with the capacity for 500 [[intermodal containers of the TEU size.]] right|thumb |A Mississippi River System-type riverboat, from an 1850s [[daguerrotype.]]

an unpowered, inflatable recreational boat meant to be towed; often yellow and banana-shaped

thumb|Pinisi boats at the port of Paotere in Makassar, 1994

boat service in the Paris region

thumb|upright=1.35|Azzam (2013 yacht)|Azzam, at the longest superyacht as of 2020 thumb|A (sailing yacht)|A, at the largest "sail-assisted" motor yacht as of 2018

motor ship

boat designed for pushing barges or car floats

type of boat

type of boat

extremely large shotgun used for the market hunting of waterfowl

thumb|300px|Shikara on the Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh The shikara () is a type of wooden boat found on Dal Lake and other water bodies of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir. Shikaras are of various sizes and are used for multiple purposes, including transportation. A usual shikara seats six people, with the driver paddling at the rear. Like the Venetian gondolas, they are a cultural symbol of Kashmir. Some shikaras are still used for fishing, harvesting aquatic vegetation (usually for fodder), and transport, while most are covered with tarpaulins and are used by tourists. A Shikara ride in Dal Lake is

type of torpedo-armed fast attack craft

E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II; E-boat could refer to a patrol craft from an armed motorboat to a large Torpedoboot. The name of E-boats was a British designation using the letter E for Enemy.

thumb|A backwater view with houseboat from Biyyam Lake, Ponnani, [[India]] thumb|A Kerala houseboat in [[Alappuzha, India]] thumb|A kettuvallam houseboat with an upper deck

wooden Portuguese vessels that carried the wine casks from the quintas (wine estates) where it is produced to the mouth of Douro river

thumb|A modern copy of a whaleboat at Mystic Seaport. The mast is stowed with its heel under the after thwart and resting on the gunwale on the starboard quarter. The 2 tubs containing the whale rope are in the after half of the boat, and the rope is led round the loggerhead and then forward to the bow, between the chocks. The harpoons are already attached to the rope.thumb|Whaleboat aboard the Whaler|whaling ship Charles W. Morgan at [[Mystic Seaport]]

class of small minesweepers

ship used in Joshua Slocum's solo circumnavigation in the late 19th century

southeast Asian watercraft

type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys

watercraft used in service by police force

thumb|An oselvar under construction. right|thumb|Oselvar on the coat of arms of Os, Hordaland right|thumb|Oselvar with sail The or is a small wooden rowing boat traditionally built and used along the west coast of Norway. The Oselvar is a clinker built boat with thin, very wide planks. Almost all parts of an Oselvar are made of pine, with only the keel of oak.

utility vessel

right|thumb|Line drawing of a dahabeah A dahabeah, also spelled dahabeeyah, dahabeyah, dahabiah, dahabiya, dahabiyah and dhahabiyya, as well as dahabiyeh and dahabieh (Arabic ذهبية /ðahabīya/), is a passenger boat used on the river Nile in Egypt. The term is normally used to describe a shallow-bottomed, barge-like vessel with two or more sails. The vessels have been around in one form or another for thousands of years, with similar craft being depicted on the walls of the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. Indeed, the name derives from the Arabic word for "gold", owing to similar, gilded state barges

thumb|Sunnmørsfæring exhibited at Herøy coastal museum, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. (Photo: Silje L. Bakke)

thumb|right|Water velocipede, c. 1877 thumb|right|Man operating water tricycle, probably early 20th Century thumb|right|A Hydrobike brand hydrocycle thumb|Modern pedal catamaran with propeller drive (Germany, 1999). A hydrocycle is a bicycle-like watercraft. The concept was known in the 1870s as a water velocipede and the name was in use by the late 1890s.

boat equipped for transporting and care for ill and wounded people

small boat for anglers

thumb|150px|The relationship between monohulls & multihulls

The International DN is a class of ice boat.

type of wooden boat which has its planks bound together with fibre rope, tendons or flexible wood

thumb|A flatboat passing a long cigar-shaped keelboat on the [[Ohio River.]]

radar-equipped station, ship, submarine, aircraft, or vehicle used to increase the radar detection range around a force

1941 class of British motor gunboats

type of wooden deep-sea fishing trawler

thumb|right|Postcard from 1922 showing trekschuit arrival in Volendam. thumb|Map from 1681 showing the Haarlemmertrekvaart as connecting Haarlem to Amsterdam, and the Leidsevaart connecting Haarlem to Leiden. At Halfweg the two bodies of water "Haarlemmermeer" and "Het Ye" meet at [[Gemeenlandshuis Zwanenburg.]] thumb|right|Drawing of interior of a trekschuit on the Haarlemmertrekvaart in 1760. thumb|right|Drawing of trekschuit on Nieuweramstel 1700–1725. The jager is on the horse.

thumb|right|Shungwaya: an inexact replica mtepe built in 2003 and displayed at the House of Wonders Museum in [[Stone Town, Zanzibar.]] The mtepe is a boat associated with the Swahili people (the word "boat" in the Bantu Swahili language being mtepe). The mtepe's planks are held together by wooden pegs and coir, so it is a sewn boat designed to be flexible in contrast to the rigid vessels of western technique.

maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut

thumb|A yakatabune near Odaiba thumb|The inside of a yakatabune A is a kind of privately owned Japanese boat that has been in use since the Heian period. Private boats of the shōgun from the Heian through the Edo periods were very lavishly decorated. Inside, a yakatabune has tatami mats and Japanese low tables that resemble an upper-class Japanese home; in fact, it means "home-style boat", and were basically for entertaining guests in the old days.

surface vessel with underwater windows

type of boat used for sightseeing and short touristic trips

series of Soviet passenger river ships

boat operating on a canal, pulled by a horse walking beside the canal on a towpath

thumb|right|Tourist-oriented bumboats on the Singapore River

type of boat from Kerala, India