Buoy tender

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USCG Cutter OBION, a River Buoy Tender, maintaining navigational buoys on the Ohio river at Louisville, Kentucky.
USCG Cutter OBION, a River Buoy Tender, maintaining navigational buoys on the Ohio river at Louisville, Kentucky.

A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys.

The United States Coast Guard uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missons of maintaining all U. S. Aids to Navigation (ATON).

[edit] Types of CG buoy tenders

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