Craft for embarking/landing on unequipped shorelines

Abstract

Craft for embarking/landing loads, particularly personnel and/or vehicles, on unequipped shorelines, of the catamaran type, comprising: a mobile platform which is provided between two lateral hulls of the said catamaran, this platform being produced in the form of a watertight box, the upper part of which supports the loads by forming a running surface, and a deployable ramp being provided at each end of the said platform, the latter and the said ramps in the deployed position constituting a loading corridor of uniform width equal to the spacing between the two hulls, and mechanisms to make it possible to vary the relative position of the mobile platform and of the hulls of the catamaran so that the craft floats either via the catamaran hulls alone or via the entire area of the said platform and of the hulls of the said catamaran.

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