The phrase "a vessel designed to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or function of a specific type of vessel, such as a ship, container, or other objects meant to hold or transport something.
Example: "The research team utilized a vessel designed to collect water samples from deep ocean trenches."
Alternatives: "a container intended to" or "a craft built to".
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that the expedited review, which is to be completed within 60 days, was prompted by accidents and equipment problems aboard Shell's two Arctic drilling rigs, the Kulluk and the Noble Discoverer, as well as the Arctic Challenger, a vessel designed to respond to a potential well blowout and oil spill.
At D-Day in 1944 and the Battle of Walcheren some months later, he was in command of a rocket-firing landing craft, a vessel designed to deliver a terrifying "shock and awe -style blawe -styleage of thousands of small deadly rockets.
And, the roughness of the ark's construction seems much closer to a vessel designed to float rather than to sail, so the film's rendering sometimes challenges our all-too-easy tendencies to think of the ark for floating as a boat for sailing, when the text does not suggest the latter.
A separator is a pressure vessel designed to divide a combined liquid gas system into individual components that are relatively free of each other for subsequent disposition or processing.
Experiments were performed underwater in a pressure vessel designed to simulate a free-field environment by maintaining constant hydrostatic pressure throughout the collapse event.
Experiments are performed in a pressure vessel designed to provide constant hydrostatic pressure through the collapse.
The U.S.G.S. contracted with the University of Oregon, in 1967, to launch the Yaquina, a research vessel designed to dredge sediment beneath the continental shelf between Coos Bay, in Oregon, and Eureka in northern California.
We present liquid sodium convection experiments in a spherical vessel, designed to model the convective state of planetary cores such as the Earth's.
In fact, the V Vessel is a brewing vessel designed to hold up to 23 liters of liquid.
She was a refrigerated vessel, designed to carry frozen meat and live cattle, and was claimed to be one of the largest meat-carrying ships then afloat.
HMS Scott is a hydrographic survey vessel, designed to map the ocean floor and gather information on the world's oceans.
