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"Vessel" as including all means of water transportation

1 U.S.C. § 3
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The word "vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.

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(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)

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