Abstract: A transom mounted tilting frame fold away swing boom skiff lift for launching, retrieving and stowage of a tender or skiff on a larger yacht comprised of a twin swing boom davit arrangement contained within a tilting frame wherein the swing booms pivot on a common hinge allowing them to swing apart providing for suspended attachment of a skiff in the upright position or swing together forming compact nested configuration that can be folded aside when not in use clearing the yacht transom area for unrestricted access. The swing boom arrangement being substantially contained and pivotally attached to a double leg frame structure Frame structure to have pivotal bases mounted to the transom or swim step of a yacht allowing the frame structure to be tilted out and away from the transom of the yacht or upright and adjacent to the transom of the yacht. A motor box constructed integral to the top section of the tilting frame houses a motorized cable drum.

Abstract: A machine for gripping and handling underwater vehicles and the like includes a gripping device provided with a guiding member made integral at its upper end, an articulated member connected with a rod sliding inside a guide attached to a free end of a jib of the crane and with floats capable of maintaining the guiding member raised above the water in a preset position of the rod relative to the guide controlled by a sensor imparting movement to the jibs of the crane in order to maintain the gripping device in vertical position relative to the ship.

Abstract: A support structure for devices particularly life boats and similar apparatus which is weight operated comprises a plurality of support members, each or some of which may be telescopic which are pivotally interconnected adjacent their associated interconnected ends. Each successive upper one of a pair of such members is pivotal relative to the next adjacent lowermost one about a substantially horizontal axis. The pivoting is controlled by a control mechanism which is operated from a fluid pressure source produced by the weight of the elements upon each other. The control mechanism includes means for controlling the amount of tilt of each upper element relative to an adjacent lower element and for the control of the precise angularity of the two elements relative to each other during the pivotal movement.

Abstract: An adjustable mooring device suitable for attaching a floating facility to a fixed platform, the said device comprising a system of adjustable tubular members connected to each other by rotatable T couplings, the said lower tubular members being permanently attached by a pair of T couplings rotatably mounted on a shaft which is fixably attached to the said platform, the upper legs of the said mooring device having tubular members extending forwardly, each of the said upper legs extending into at least one Y connection, the said Y connection being suitable for connecting to a floating facility; the lower section of the said Y connection being supported at the water surface by a float; the said Y connection being connected by suitable means to the said floating facility.