Self-launching superstructure for vessels

Details Self-launching superstructure for vessels Self-launching superstructure for vessels

1992-07-14

1996-01-16

Huppert, Michael S.

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Building

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114 77A, B63B 2902

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054839106

ABSTRACT:
In a preferred embodiment, a self-launching superstructure for a vessel, the superstructure including: a floatable hull having a forward bottom portion sloping downwardly from near a waterline near a bow end of the superstructure to a point near a stern end of the superstructure; the forward bottom portion being engagable with a corresponding sloped floor on the vessel when the superstructure is mounted on the vessel, the sloped floor terminating at an edge of the vessel, such that the superstructure, under gravitational force, may slide from the vessel into water in which the vessel is floating; and apparatus to releasably secure the superstructure on the vessel with the forward bottom portion of the hull engaging the sloped floor.

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