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Class Number: 114 Class Title: SHIPS Subclass Subclass Number Title 255 FISHING VESSEL 256 FLOATING OR SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE STORAGE VESSEL 257 SUBMERGED STORAGE VESSEL 1 WARSHIPS 2 .Rams 3 ..Battering 4 .Floating batteries 5 .Turret 6 ..Combined elevating and rotary 7 ..Elevating 8 ..Rotary 9 .Armored 10 ..Deflectors 11 ..Belting and plating 12 ...Compound 13 ....Buffers 14 ..Screens and shields 15 .Concealment 312 SUBMERSIBLE DEVICE 313 .With disparate vehicle feature 314 .Underwater habitat 315 .Diver assistance device 316 .With weapon or weapon system 317 ..Having ballast compensating means 318 ..Power assisted deployment 319 ...Pneumatic or hydraulic dispatch 320 ..Having specific hatch structure 321 .Having storage hold 322 .Detachably connected to a main vessel 323 ..Emergency escape means 324 ...Chamber completely enclosed in the hull 325 ...Chamber nested in the hull 326 .Having buoy 327 ..And snorkel 328 ..With communication means 329 ..With indicator 330 .Having attitude control 331 ..Depth control 332 ...Diving plane 333 ...Water ballast 334 .Having air supply 335 .Having air locks 336 .Emergency equipment 337 .Having propulsion unit 338 ..Propeller 339 .Superstructure 340 ..With periscope 341 .Hulls with transverse reinforcement 342 .Hull within a hull 18 TORPEDO BOATS 19 .Spar 20.1 TORPEDOESS 20.2 .With power plants 20.3 .With net cutting 21.1 .With external control 21.2 ..With remote control 21.3 .With homing means 22 .Separable sections 23 .Steering mechanism 24 ..Gyroscope 25 .Depth regulation 26 SCOWS 27 .Dumping and unloading 28 ..Sectional 29 ...Hinged 30 ...Separable 31 ..Platform 32 ...Tilting 33 ....Carriers 34 ...Conveyors 35 ...Side doors 36 ..Bottom doors 37 ...Flooding gates 38 ..Turnover 39.1 SAILBOAT 39.2 .Sailboard 40 ICE BREAKERS 41 .Rams 42 .Cutters 43 ICE BOATS 258 MOTHER SHIP, FLOATING LANDING PLATFORM, AND HARBOR 259 .Vessel carrier 260 ..Barge transport 261 .Aircraft 262 ..Seaplane 263 .Floating boat dock 44 VESSEL RAISING AND DOCKING 45 .Floating dry docks 46 ..Sectional 47 ..End gates 48 ..Elevators 49 .Camels, caissons, and pontoons 50 .Submerged 51 ..Hoisting 52 ..Air tanks 53 ...Camels, caissons, and pontoons 54 ...Inflatable bags 55 ..Sand and mud loosening 271 HULL OR HULL ADJUNCT EMPLOYING FLUID DYNAMIC FORCES TO DERIVE A LIFT OR ALTER TRIM, E.G., PLANING HULLS 272 .Having airfoil 273 ..Movably mounted 274 .Having hydrofoil 275 ..With control means responsive to sensed condition 276 ...Having feeler means 277 ...Having liquid pressure sensor 278 ..Ported strut or foil 279 ..With shock damping means 280 ..Having means to tilt or reposition foil or foil adjunct 281 ...Steerable foill 282 ...Having means to move foil to a retracted nonuse position 283 .Having laterally disposed skids or pontoons 284 .Movably mounted hull portion or hull adjunct 285 ..Trim tab or hull plate 286 ...With fluid motor 287 ....Expanding bladder 288 .Having fluid channeling or entrapping configuration 289 ..With fluid introducing means 290 ..Plural channels 291 .Stepped hull 292 .Pontoon structure 56 FORM 57 .Screw propeller type 58 .Paddle wheelers 59 .Spindle 60 .Canal and ferry boats 61 .Divided hull 62 .Concave bottom 63 .Flat bottom 343 BOATS, BOAT COMPONENT OR ATTACHMENT 344 .With wheeled buoyant landing or launching aid 345 .Inflatable 346 .Circular 347 .Canoe or kayak 348 .Lifeboat 349 ..Enclosed 350 ...With self-leveling passenger compartment 351 .Hunting 352 .Sectional 353 ..With folding 354 .Collapsible 355 .Hull construction 356 ..Metal 357 ..Plastic 358 ..Wood 359 ..Former and framer 360 .With means to prevent capsizing or sinking 361 .Protective cover or shield 362 .Boarding aids 363 .Seat and foot support 364 .Deck or gunwale attachment 65 R BUILDING 66 .Observation boats 67 R .Antifriction surfaces 67 A ..Air and oil films 68 .Insubmergible vessels 69 ..Linings and fillings 70 .Canal and ferry boats 71 .Cabins 72 .Freighters 73 ..Bulk cargo 74 R ...Liquid 74 T ....Floating tank 74 A ....Double hull or insulated tank 75 ...Antishifting devices 76 ...Ceilings and floors 77 R .Sectional 77 A ..Horizontal sectionss 78 .Bulkhead and compartment 79 R .Iron 80 ..Corrugated 81 ..Tubular 79 W ..Welded joint 82 .Wood 83 .Bracing and staying 84 .Sheathing and planking 85 .Decks 86 .Calking and seaming 87 .Knees 88 .Joints 65 A .Concrete ships 89 SPARS 90 .Masts and masting 91 ..Swinging 92 ..Cross and trestle trees 93 ..Coats, shields, and steps 94 ..Heads and irons 95 .Yards 96 ..Trusses and parrels 97 .Gaffs, booms, etc. 98 ..Pivoted 99 ..Crotches and supports 100 .Spar irons 101 .Fair leaders and chocks 102 SAILS AND RIGGING 103 .Sails 104 ..Reefing and furling 105 ...Fore-and-aft sails 106 ....Rolling 107 ...Rolling 108 ..Fastening devices 109 .Rigging screws and stretchers 111 .Running rigging 112 .Mast travelers 113 .Hoops and connections 114 .Cringles and hanks 115 .Clews 116 BULKHEADS AND DOORS 117 .Doors 118 ..Automatic 119 ...Sliding 120 ..Sliding 121 BALLASTING 122 .Antirolling 123 .Floats 124 .Shifting weights 125 .Water tanks 126 .Fins and boards 127 CENTERBOARDS 128 .Steering 129 .Multiple 130 .Vertical drop and pivoted swing 131 ..Sectional 132 .Pivoted 133 ..Sectional 134 ...Fann 135 ..Lateral 136 ..Lateral swing 137 ..Lateral tilt 138 .Vertical drop 139 ..Sectional 140 KEELS 141 .Vertical adjustment 142 .Bilge 143 .Rocking 144 R STEERING MECHANISM 145 R .Speed retarders 145 A ..Trolling plates 146 .Auxiliary 147 .Paddles and wheels 148 ..Channels 149 .Keel 150 .Fluid pressure 151 ..Jet 152 .Fins 153 .Foot 154 .Wheel-shaft gearing 155 ..Screw 156 ...Intermediate gear 157 ...Right and left 158 ....Intermediate gear 159 ..Segmental rack 160 .Wheel and drum 161 ..Intermediate gear 162 .Rudders 163 ..Multiple 164 ..Auxiliary 165 ..Hanging and shipping 166 ..Tubular 167 ..Sectional 168 ..Jury 169 ..Post bearings and heads 170 ..Brakes 171 ...Hydraulic 172 ..Locks 144 RE .Electrical 144 A .Remote control steering excluding manual operation 144 B .Dynamic anchor 144 C .Wind vane-operated 144 E ..Electric 365 LIFE CRAFT HANDLING DEVICE, APPARATUS, OR IMPLEMENT 366 .Moving from storage position to launching position 367 .Means for automatic launch upon sinking of ship 368 .Davit 369 ..Movably mounted 370 ...Compound movement 371 ....Relative arcuate movement 372 ....Translating and tilting 373 ...Pivoting 374 ....Vertical axis 375 .Chute or track 376 .Protector for lifecraft during launching 377 .Connector between boat and lowering tackle 378 ..Releasing mechanismm 379 ...Automatic 380 ...Simultaneously releasing bow and stern 264 FLOATING PLATFORM 265 .Multiple leg 266 .Float assembly 267 FLOAT STRUCTURE 173 PORTS 174 .Stoppers 175 ..Gun port 176 ..Hinged 177 .Light and air 178 ..Hinged covers 179 HAWSE PIPES 180 .Stoppers and covers 181 .Friction rollers 182 SCUPPERS 183 R BILGE DISCHARGE 184 .Ejectors 185 ..Ships motion 186 ..Ash 183 A .Wave motion 187 SMOKESTACKS 188 FURNITURE 189 .Cabins and staterooms 190 .Life-preserver racks 191 .Self-leveling 192 ..Berths 193 ...Single pivot 194 ..Chairs 195 ..Tables * VALVES 197 .Boat plugs 198 .Sea cocks 199 CABLE STOPPERS 200 .Chain 201 R HATCHES AND COVERS 202 .Sliding 203 .With fasteners 201 A .Inflatable gaskets 204 TRAVELERS 205 .Tension relievers 293 ANCHORING ARRANGEMENT 294 ANCHOR 295 .With means driving the anchor into the sea bed 296 .Suction type 297 .With dislodgement means 298 ..Collapsible fluke 299 ..By movable line connection 300 .Dished or mushroom type 301 .Fluke type 302 ..Having stowable stock 303 ..Having assembly or disassembly feature or replaceable or adjustable abutment 304 ..Pivoted fluke 305 ...Extensible 306 ...Fork or aperture confining fluke 307 ...Plural independently pivoted 308 ...Knobbed shankk 309 ...Stock mounted on or juxtaposed to fluke 310 ...With tripper 311 .Sea anchor 210 ANCHOR TRIPPERS 211 VENTILATION 212 .Valves 213 TENSION RELIEVERS 214 .Fluid 215 .Cable 216 .Couplers 217 ..Safety release 218 BITTS, CLEATS, AND PIN RAILS 219 Fenders 220 .Roller 381 CHOCK OR LASHING 221 R IMPLEMENTS 222 .Hull cleaning 223 .Riggings 224 .Calking, paying, etc. 221 A .Underwater cutting 227 LEAK STOPPERS 228 .Interior 229 .Aprons, mats, etc. 230 MOORING DEVICES 231 .Ferry slip 232 OIL DISTRIBUTERS 233 .Ship structure 234 .Drags and floats 242 TOWING OR PUSHING 243 .Cable fairing 244 .Submerged object 245 ..Having depth-control means 246 .Steering 247 .Having means responsive to excess strain 248 .Nested vessels 249 .Coupling means 250 ..Boom type 251 ..Flexible lashing 252 ..Having trip mechanism 253 .Towing by means of cable 254 ..With cable storage means, e.g., reels 268 WITH HOIST OR DECK ENGINE 269 MACHINERY ARRANGEMENT 238 TORPEDO LAUNCHING 239 .Outboard 240 R TORPEDO GUARDS 241 .Nets 240 A .Underwater 240 B .Pivotally attached 240 C .Boat net 240 D .Ship guard 240 E .Barrier nets 270 MISCELLANEOUS