tender

Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the trucks were off the track, so violent was the stopping.

submarine tender

A passenger on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth died this week following an accident while boarding from a tender (the small boats that carry passengers from ship to shore or port when the cruise ship anchors at sea). […] Gangway ramps can, on occasion, break free of either the ship or the tender, causing passengers or crew to fall into the sea.