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A.D. 1899.]

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

[No. 10.

519

and/or outside of the boat, equal in efficiency to one-half the buoyancy appa- ratus provided for a boat of Section 4 qt Section B. At least one-half of

the buoyancy apparatus must be attached to the outside of the boat.

Section D.-A boat of this section shall be a properly constructed boat of Food or metal.

2. Measure the length and breadth outside and the depth inside; multiply Mode of them together and by 6; the product is the capacity of the boat in cubic ascertaining

cubic capacity feet. Thus a boat 28 feet long, 8 feet 6 inches broad, and 3 feet 6 inches deep of boat. will be regarded as having a capacity of 28 x 8.5 × 3·5 × 6 = 499-8 or $500 cubic feet. If the oars are pulled in rowlocks, the bottom of the rowlock

is to be considered the gunwale of the boat for ascertaining her depth.

Mode of ascertaining persons to be

number of

carried by

boat.

appliances for getting boats into water.

3. The number of persons a boat of Section 4 shall be deemed fit to carry shall be the number of cubic feet (ascertained as in Rule 2) divided by 10. The number of persons a boat of Sections B, C, or D shall be deemed fit to carry shall be the number of cubic feet (ascertained as in Rule 2) divided by 8. The space in the boat shall be sufficient for the seating of the persons carried in it and for the proper use of the oars.

4. Appliances for getting boats into the water must fulfil the following Description of conditions --Means are to be provided for speedily detaching the boats from the lower blocks of the davit tackles; the boats placed under davits are to be attached to the davit tackles and kept ready for service; the davits are to be strong enough and so spaced that the boats can be swung out with facility; the points of attachment of the boats to the davits are to be sufficiently away from the ends of the boats to ensure their being easily swung clear of the davits; the boats' chocks are to be such as can be expeditiously removed; the davits, falls, blocks, eye-bolts, rings, and the whole of the tackling are to be of sufficient strength; the boats' falls are to be long enough to lower the boat into the water with safety when the vessel is light; the life lines fitted to the davits are to be long enough to reach the water when the vessel is light; and hooks are not to be attached to the lower tackle blocks.

5. In order to be properly equipped each boat shall be provided as Equipment follows

(a.) with the full (single banked) complément of oars and two spare oars ; (b.) with two plugs for each plug hole attached with lanyards or chains, and one set and a half of thole pins or crutches attached to the boat by sound lanyards;

(c.) with a sea anchor, a baler, a rudder and tiller or yoke and yoke lines, a painter of sufficient length, and a boat hook. The rudder and baler to be kept attached to the boat by sufficiently long lanyards and kept ready for use;

(d.) with a vessel to be kept filled with fresh water; and

(e.) life-rafts shall be fully provided with a suitable equipment.

for boats and life-rafts.

16. In order to be properly equipped, each Boat of Sections A and B, in Additional addition to being provided with all the requisites laid down in the last equipment for