Horizontal berth is an optimal technological basis for contemporary shipbuilding processes. Launching of objects built on the horizontal berth by tipping table method is a relativly new and still not fully explored technology characterized by complex kinematics with an additional degree of freedom in comparison to traditional launching methods. Systematization of different launching methods (along with analysis of dynamics) is given as a starting point for theoretical development of tipping table launching method. Basic technological characteristics, such as transportational methods of objects from the horizontal berth to the tipping table, geometry of the system being launched and specific equipment used are also presented. By analysing the dynamic equilibrium of generalized forces for different launching phases, theory of launching by tipping table is defined. System of coupled differential equations of motion is solved numerically using the explicit Runge-Kutta method with variable time step. Launching theory has been validated for the chosen poonton and tanker vessels. In order to identify the most influential variables with respect to the launching dynamics, a dedicated parametrical analysis has also been performed.