List of boat types explained

This is a list of boat types. For sailing ships, see: List of sailing boat types

A

• Airboat
• Amphibious automobile
• Amphibious vehicle
• Ark
• Auxiliary ship

Top of page

B

• Banana boat (merchant)
• Banana boat (recreational)
  • Barge Bass boat
• Boita
• Bow rider
• Bracera
• Bragozzo
• Brig
• Brigantine
• Bucentaur

Top of page

C

• • Cabin cruiser Cruise ship
• Cable ferry
• Canoe
• Cape Islander
• Captain's gig
• Car-boat
• Car float
• Catamaran
• Center console
• Chundan vallam
• Coble
• Cog
• Coracle
• Cornish pilot gig
• Crash rescue boat
• Cuddy boat
• Cutter
• Currach (sp. to West of Ireland and Scotland)

Top of page

D

• Dhow
• Dhoni
• Dinghy
• Dorna
• Dory
• Dragon boat
• Drift boat
• Drifter (fishing)
• Drifter (naval)
• Dugout
• Durham boat

Top of page

E

• Electric boat
• Express cruiser

Top of page

F

• Fast attack craft
• Faering
• Felucca
• Ferry
• Fireboat
• Fishing vessel
• Fish tug
• Float tube
• Fly

Top of page

G

• Galley
• Galleon
• Gallivat
• Galway hooker
• Garbage scow
• Gig (boat)
• Go-fast boat
• Gondola
• Gunboat
• Gundalow
• Great Lakes freighter

Top of page

H

• Higgins
• Houario
• Houseboat
• Hovercraft
• Hydrofoil
• Hydroplane

Top of page

I

• Ice boat
• Inflatable boat

Top of page

J

• Jetboat
• Jet ski
• Jon boat
• Jukung
• Junk

Top of page

K

• Kayak and Sea kayak
• Ketch
• Kettuvallam

Top of page

L

• Lafitte skiff
• Launch
• Landing craft
• Lifeboat
• Lighter
• Liner
• LNG carrier
• Log boat
• Langschiff
• Longboat
• Longship
• Longtail
• Lugger
• Luxury yacht

Top of page

M

• Mackinaw boat
• Masula boat
• Missile boat
• Monitor
• Motorboat
• Motor Launch (naval)
• Mini Gascogna

Top of page

N

• Narrowboat
• Naval ship
• Nordland
• Norfolk wherry

Top of page

O

• Oiler (ship)
• Optimist
• Outrigger canoe

Top of page

P

• Padded V-hull
• Paddle steamer
• Patrol boat
• Pedalo (paddle boat)
• Personal water craft (PWC)
• Pinnace (ship's boat)
• Pink (ship)
• Pirogue
• Pleasure barge
• Pleasure craft
• Police watercraft
• Pontoon
• Powerboat
• Pram (boat)
• Pram (ship)
• Proa
• Pump boat
• Punt

Top of page

Q

• Q-Ship
• Quinquereme

Top of page

R

• Raft
• Reaction ferry
• Recreational trawler
• Reed boat
• Replenishment oiler
• Rigid-hulled inflatable
• Riverboat
• Rodney boat
• Roll-on/roll-off ship
• Rowboat
• Runabout

Top of page

S

• Sailboat
• Sampan
• Schooner
• Scow
• Sea kayak and Kayak
• Shad boat
• Shallop
• Sharpie
• Shikara
• Ship's tender
• Ski boat
• Skiff
• Skipjack
• Smack (ship)
• Small-craft sailing
• Slipper Launch
• Sloop
• Speed boat
• Special Operations Craft – Riverine (SOC-R)
• Steam boat
• Submarine
• Surf boat
• Surfboard
• Swift boat

Top of page

T

• • Tanker Tarai Bune
• Tartane
• Tjotter
• Torpedo boat
• Tour boat
• Towboat
• Trabaccolo
• Trailer sailor
• Train ferry
• Trimaran
• Trireme
• Trawler (fishing)
• Trawler (naval)
• Trawler (recreational)
• Trow
• Tugboat

Top of page

U

• U-boat
• Umiak

Top of page

V

• Vaporetto
• Very Slender Vessel
• Vlet

Top of page

W

• Waka
• Wakeboard boat
• Walkaround
• Water ambulance
• Water taxi
• Weidling
• Whaleboat
• Wherry

Top of page

X

• Xebec

Top of page

Y

• Yacht
• Yawl
• Yoal

Top of page

Z

• Zille

Top of page

See also

• Lists of watercraft types