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Table A.

Additional equipment

for boats of sections A and B.

Number of

persons to be carried by life-rafts.

Buoyant apparatus.

No. 10 of 1899.

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

(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.

6.-Additional equipment for Boats of Sections A and B.

In order to be properly equipped each boat of sections A and B, in addition to being provided with all the requisites laid down in the last rule, shall be equipped as follows (but not more than 4 boats in any one ship are required to have this outfit):-

(a) with two hatchets or tomahawks, one to be kept in each end of the boat and to be attached to the boat by a lanyard;

(b) with a mast or masts, and with at least one good sail and proper gear for each;

(c) with a line in loops run round the outside of the boat and securely made fast;

(d) with an efficient compass;

(e) with one gallon of vegetable or animal oil in a vessel of approved pattern for distributing it on the water in rough weather; and

(f) with a lantern trimmed, and with oil in its receiver sufficient to burn 8 hours.

7.-Number of Persons for Life-rafts.

The number of persons that any approved life-raft for use at sea shall be deemed to be capable of carrying shall be determined with reference to each separate pattern approved by the Government Marine Surveyor.

Provided always that for every person so carried there shall be at least 3 cubic feet of strong and serviceable enclosed air-tight compart- ments such that water cannot find its way into them. Any approved life-raft of other construction may be used provided that it has equivalent buoyancy to that hereinbefore described. Every such ap- proved life-raft shall be marked in such a way as to plainly indicate the number of adult persons it can carry.

8.-Buoyant apparatus.

Approved buoyant apparatus shall be deemed sufficient for a number of persons to be ascertained by dividing the number of pounds of iron which it is capable of supporting in fresh water by 32. Such buoyant apparatus shall not require to be inflated before use, shall be of ap proved construction, and marked in such a way as plainly to indicate the number of persons for whom it is sufficient.

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