Emergency boat ladder

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AN EMERGENCY BOAT LADDER ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A MOUNTING BRACKET HAVING A FLAT BASE PORTION ADAPTED FOR ATTACHMENT AT A LOWER PORTION OF A BOAT TRANSOM ABOVE WATER LEVEL, SAID BRACKET ALSO INCLUDING LOWER AND UPPER OUTWARDLY GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY PROJECTING PORTIONS, SAID LOWER PROJECTING PORTION INCLUDING PIVOT SUPPORT MEANS ADAPTED FOR CONNECTION WITH AN UPPER END PORTION OF A LADDER TO PROVIDE FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT OF THE LADDER IN A VERTICAL PLANE TO A LOWER OPERATIVE SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY POSITION AND THROUGH APPROXIMATELY 180* TO AN UPPER STORAGE POSITION ADJACENT AND SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL WITH THE TRANSOM, AND SAID UPPER PROJECTING PORTION INCLUDING LATCH MEANS ADAPTED FOR RELEASABLE CONNECTION WITH A LADDER IN ITS UPPER STORAGE POSITION, AND A LADDER HAVING A PAIR OF VERTICAL SIDE RAILS AND AT LEAST ONE HORIZONTAL RUNG CONNECTED THEREBETWEEN AT LOWER PORTIONS THEREOF, SAID LADDER SIDE RAILS BEING SO SPACED APART LATERALLY AS TO RECEIVE SAID LOWER PROJECTING PORTION AT ALL TIMES AND TO RECEIVE BOTH SAID LOWER AND SAID UPPER PROJECTING PORTIONS OF SAID MOUNTING BRACKET THEREBETWEEN WHEN THE LADDER IS SWUNG TO ITS UPPER STORAGE POSITION, THE UPPER END PORTIONS OF SAID SIDE RAILS BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED WITH SAID LOWER PROJECTING PORTION ON SAID BRACKET, AND THE SAID LADDER BEING OF SUCH LENGTH THAT THE RUNG THEREON IS DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY BENEATH WATER LEVEL WITH THE LADDER IN ITS LOWER OPERATIVE POSITION, THE LADDER BEING DISPOSED BENEATH THE UPPER EDGE OF THE TRANSOM AND ABOVE THE LOWER EDGE THEREOF WHEN THE LADDER IS IN ITS UPPER OR STORAGE POSITION.