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MERCHANT SHIPPING
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(3) To ensure that they are adequate, the provision of lifeboats and buoyant apparatus shall be in accordance with the requirements of such of the foregoing regulations as are applicable.
Marking of boats, life-rafts and buoyant apparatus.
88. (1) All boats shall be permanently marked to the satisfaction of the Government Marine Surveyor in such way as to indicate plainly their dimensions and the number of persons which they are deemed fit to carry.
(2) All life rafts shall be marked in the same manner with the number of persons which they may carry.
(3) All buoyant apparatus shall be marked in the same manner with an indication that they are buoyant and with the number of persons which they are deemed fit to support.
Stowage of equipment in boats and life-rafts.
89. All boats and life rafts shall be fully equipped be- fore the ship proceeds to sea, and the equipment shall remain in the boat or life-raft throughout the voyage, while the ship is at sea, or shall be stowed in some convenient place where it will be immediately available in case of emergency.
Stowage and Handling of Boats, Life Rafts and Buoyant Apparatus,
90.-(1) All boats attached to davit and all boats stowed under boats attached to davits shall be stowed to the satisfaction of the Government Marine Surveyor in such a way that-
(i) they can be launched in the shortest possible time;
(ii) they will not impede in any way the prompt handling of any other of the boats attached to davits or stowed under boats attached to davits, or the buoyant apparatus carried in pursuance of these regulations, or the marshalling of the persons on board at the launching stations, or other em- barkation;
(iii) even under conditions of list and trim unfavourable from the point of view of the handling of the boats, as large a number of persons as possible can be embarked in them;
No. 10 of 1899
MERCHANT SHIPPING
(2)-(a) Boats and life rafts additional to boats stowed under boats attached to davits shall be stowed across a deck, bridge or poop and so secured that they will have the best chance of floating free of the ship if there is no time to launch them. They must not impede in any way the prompt handling of the boats attached to davits or the boats stowed under boats attached to davits, or the buoyant apparatus, or the marshalling of the persons on board at the launching stations or their embarkation.
(b) As large a number as possible of the additional boats referred to in paragraph 2 (a) of this regulation shall be cap- able of being launched on either side of the ship by means of approved appliances for transferring them from one side. of the deck to the other.
(e) Means shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Government Marine Surveyor for lowering the additional boats referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph, into the water in the shortest possible time.
(3) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this regulation boats may be stowed one above the other, or they may, subject to such conditions as the Government Marine Sur- veyor may impose, be fitted one within another, but where boats so fitted require lifting before being launched they may only be so fitted if mechanical power appliances for lifting are provided. In no other case shall boats be so stowed as to require lifting before being launched.
(4) Where a boat is stowed underneath another boat there shall be provided approved removable supports or other approved appliances, so as to secure that the weight of a boat is not unduly supported by the boat underneath it.
(5) Boats may be stowed on more than one deck on condition that proper measures are taken to prevent boats on a lower deck being fouled by those stowed on a deck above.
(6) Boats shall not be placed in the bows of the ship or in any position in which they would be brought into dangerous proximity to the propellers at the time of launch- ing.
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