Dormitory ships provide, as their primary function, living quarters for students enrolled at an educational institution. Dormitory ships serve as conventional land-based dormitories in all respects except that the living quarters are aboard a floating vessel, most often moored in place near the host educational facility and not used for water transport.
Dormitory ships may also refer to vessels that provide water-borne housing in support of non-academic enterprises such as off-shore oil drilling operations.
Other vessels that contain living quarters as ancillary support to the vessel's primary function — such as for providing maritime or other training given aboard the vessel — are more appropriately categorized as training ships.
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