seaplane carrier

seaplane carrier (plural seaplane carriers)

1. A type of warship, a form of seaplane tender and an early variety of aircraft carrier, which carries seaplanes onboard, and can launch and retrieve them, as well as tend to them.

• seaplane tender
• aircraft carrier
• warship
• ship

• submarine aircraft carrier (the only constructed ones; the I-400 class, were seaplane carriers)

• floatplane
• flying boat
• helicopter carrier

• seaplane
• carrier