SERVICE: U.S. Coast Guard
DESCRIPTION: A platform from which shore structures such as piers and buoy trestles can be built and serviced.
FEATURES:
The Inland Construction Buoy Tender is a tender that pushes a construction barge, providing a platform for driving pilings, an equipment storage area and machine shops. This vessel is used also for maintaining lighthouses and buoys and conducting search and rescue missions. The Coast Guard uses three classes of Inland Construction Buoy Tenders, 75 foot, 100 foot and 160 foot.
