System for propelling and steering vessels

Claim 1

A COMBINED PROPULSION AND STEERING SYSTEM FOR A VESSEL COMPRISED BY PUMPS MOUNTED WITHIN THE HULL OF THE VESSEL ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE LATTER, MAIN WATER INLET PIPES POSITIONED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE HULL OF THE VESSEL ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE LATTER AND HAVING INTAKES THROUGH THE HULL OF THE VESSEL AT THE BOW OF THE LATTER AND CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY AT THEIR OPPOSITE ENDS TO THE INTAKES OF THE PUMPS, VALVES IN SAID MAIN INLET PIPES BETWEEN THE INTAKES OF THE LATTER AND THE RESPECTIVE INTAKES OF THE PUMPS, DISCHARGE AND PROPULSION PIPES POSITIONED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE HULL ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE LATTER CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY AT ONE END TO THE OUTLETS OF THE PUMPS AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE HULL OF THE VESSEL AT THE STERN THEREOF AND FORMING PROPULSION JETS, REVERSING PIPES POSITIONED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE HULL ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF THE LATTER, TERMINATING AT ONE END IN JETS EXTENDING THROUGH THE HULL OF THE VESSEL AT THE BOW OF THE LATTER AND CONNECTED AT THEIR OTHER ENDS TO THE OUTLETS OF THE PUMPS, BOW STEERING JETS CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY TO SAID REVERSING PIPES AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE HULL OF THE VESSEL FORWARDLY OF THE TRANSVERSE CENTER LINE OF THE LATTER AUXILIARY WATER INLET PIPES HAVING INTAKES AT ONE END THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE HULL OF THE VESSEL AND CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY TO THE INTAKES OF THE PUMPS, VALVES IN SAID LATTER INTAKE PIPES, FLUSHING PIPES CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY TO THE INLETS OF SAID PUMPS AND HAVING OUTLETS THROUGH THE HULL OF THE VESSEL AND VALVES IN SAID FLUSHING PIPES.