1 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2011 Edition
Title 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 - RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
Sec. 3 - Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§3. “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation

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.

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