The history of the assault boat

The prototype of the assault boat
According to the records of Motorboating in the Guinness Book of the World, the history of inflatable boats can be traced back to 880 BC. King Ashurnasirpal II, the Assyrian, ordered his troops to continuously inflate the greased hides so that they could pass the river. ! In ancient China, in the Song and Ming dynasties, people also used sealed and inflated animal skins to pass rivers. The emergence of the assault boat is mainly due to its speed

In 1839, after the Duke of Wellington made the first pontoon test of an inflatable boat, in 1840, the British Thomas Hancock designed an inflatable raft and included his work related introduction in the "British Natural "The Origin and Process of Rubber" in the book. In 1844, a navy captain Halkett designed a wheel-shaped inflatable boat, which was used in Arctic expeditions many times. Frenchman Clement Ader also designed a floating vessel. In fact, many other pioneers invented inflatable rafts, which heralded the birth of "inflatable boats". In 1913, Albert Meyer of Germany came up with a fairly novel design. By 1920, his company, Ginseng Bau Pneum. Boote is marketing his "Qi" ship, 9 of which have been used in the German army, and have gradually become an assault boat

Modern assault boat
In France and the United Kingdom, ZODIAC and RFD successively launched the first modern rubber boats. In 1919, the founder of RFD Ray Foster Dagnall tested an inflatable boat on Lake Wisely in the United Kingdom and improved his design in the 1930s. This is the ancestor of a popular inflatable life raft. In France in 1934, Pierre Debroutelle designed the prototype of an inflatable boat.

The first modern inflatable boat was used in the French Navy. The development model of ZODIAC triggered the rapid development of civilian and military inflatable boat industries. Correspondingly, Pierre Debroutelle designed the first U-shaped rubber boat in 1937. On August 10, 1943, he applied for a patent for this design. This is also the most straightforward version of sports and entertainment inflatable boats to this day.

Assault boat components and structure
Since then many new manufacturers, new models and new designs have been introduced to the market. Inflatable boats are no longer small inflatable boats on the back of a big yacht! It can reach 45 feet long or even longer! The “rigid” glass fiber reinforced plastic hull and aluminum hull have gradually replaced the original inflatable bottom! Luxurious and beautiful decorative parts, even the ship’s warehouse also appeared on the inflatable boat. Corresponding to its name, today, inflatable boats often just refer to the boat’s pontoons being inflated, and the bottom of the boat may be made of fiberglass and aluminum. However, inflatable boats have always existed and changed. More and more popular!

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