Public vessel
Public vessel means a vessel that is owned or demise- chartered by the government of the United States, by a State or local government, or by the government of a foreign country and that is not engaged in commercial service.
Source
33 CFR § 160.202
Scoping language
Terms in this subpart that are not defined in this section or in 160.3 have the same meaning as those terms in 46 U.S.C. 2101. As used in this subpart