Seaplane Tender

A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship that provides facilities for operating seaplanes. These ships were the first aircraft carriers and appeared just before the First World War.

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Famous quotes containing the word tender:

    Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
    And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
    Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)