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(e) The motor lifeboat engine shall be fitted with a dynamo for recharging 

 the radio battery, and for other services. 



(/) A searchlight shall be fitted in each motor lifeboat required to be 

 carried under paragraph (a) of Regulation 8 of this Chapter in passenger ships 

 and under paragraph (c) of that Regulation in ships employed as whale 

 factory ships, fish processing or canning factory ships and ships engaged in 

 the carriage of persons employed in the whaling, fish processing or canning 

 industries. 



(g) The searchlight shall include a lamp of at least 80 watts, an efl&cient 

 reflector and a source of power which will give effective illumination of a 

 light-coloured object having a width of about 60 feet (or 18 metres) at a 

 distance of 200 yards (or 180 metres) for a total period of six hours and 

 shall be capable of working for at least three hours continuously. 



Regulation 15 



Requirements for Inflatable Liferafts 



(a) Every inflatable liferaft shall be so constructed that, when fully inflated 

 and floating with the cover uppermost, it shall be stable in a seaway. 



(b) The liferaft shall be so constructed that if it is dropped into the water 

 from a height of 60 feet (or 18 metres) neither the liferaft nor its equipment 

 will be damaged. 



(c) The construction of the liferaft shall include a cover which shall 

 automatically be set in place when the liferaft is inflated. This cover shall 

 be capable of protecting the occupants against injury from exposure, and 

 means shall be provided for collecting rain. The top of the cover shall be 

 fitted with a lamp which derives its luminosity from a sea-activated cell and 

 a similar lamp shall also be fitted inside the liferaft. The cover of the 

 liferaft shall be of a highly visible colour. 



(d) The liferaft shall be fitted with a painter and shall have a line securely 

 becketed round the outside. A lifeline shall also be fitted around the inside 

 of the liferaft. 



(e) The liferaft shall be capable of being readily righted by one person if 

 it inflates in an inverted position. 



(/) The liferaft shall be fitted at each opening with eflBcient means to 

 enable persons in the water to climb on board. 



(g) The liferaft shall be contained in a valise or other container so 

 constructed as to be capable of withstanding hard wear under conditions 

 met with at sea. The liferaft in its valise or other tontainer shall be 

 inherently buoyant. 



(h) The buoyancy of the liferaft shall be so arranged as to ensure by a 

 division into an even number of separate compartments, half of which shall 

 be capable of supporting out of the water the number of persons which the 

 liferaft is permitted to accommodate, or by some other equally eflBcient 

 means, that there is a reasonable margin of buoyancy if the raft is damaged 

 or partially fails to inflate. 



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