Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name)
5. vehicles (transportation)
6. watercraft
7. [watercraft by specific type]
8. [watercraft by function]

Anotations

Scope note:

Medium-sized vessels travelling at regular intervals between two ports, originally for the conveyance of mail, later also for goods and passengers; used particularly in Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. They could be ocean-going or used on rivers and canals. Merchant vessels plying regularly along fixed routes, especially on rivers or along coasts, to carry mail but also for cargo or passenger transport.