LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Launching, hauling-out, or dry-docking of vessels and related equipment:

Dry-docking of vessels or flying-boats

Launching or hauling-out by land-borne slipways; Slipways

Equipment usable both on slipways and in dry docks

Equipment forming part of or attachable to vessels facilitating transport over land

Storing of vessels on land otherwise than by dry-docking

Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; salvaging of other underwater objects

Life-saving in water

Equipment for dwelling or working underwater; Means for searching for underwater objects

Dwelling and working under water:

Diving equipment;

Diving bells and the like;

Remotely controlled underwater vehicles;

Underwater tools;

Arrangements on vessels for viewing under water.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Nets, slipways, or the like for recovering aircraft from the water -> B63B35/52

**Glossary:** - Dry-docking: Bringing a vessel from a floating to a non-floating condition by either placing the vessel in a closed basin by pumping out the water in the basin, or by lifting using buoyancy forces on the supporting structure. - Dwelling: A place of residence; a habitation - Hauling-out: Pulling, drawing or dragging a vessel out of the water. - Launching: Causing a vessel to move or slide from the land, or the stocks, into the water; setting afloat; lowering a boat into the water. - Salvaging: Saving a ship or its cargo from wreck, capture, stranding or the like. - Slipway: A slip, i.e. an inclined plane, sloping gradually down to the water, on which ships or other vessels are built or repaired.