C112 SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA 



Regulation 24 



Ships' Distress Signals 



Ships shall be provided, to the satisfaction of the Administration, with 

 means of making effective distress signals by day and by night, including at 

 least twelve parachute signals capable of giving a bright red light at a high 

 altitude. 



Regulation 2^ 



Muster List and Emergency Procedure 



(a) Special duties to be undertaken in the event of an emergency shall be 

 allotted to each member of the crew. 



(b) The muster list shall show all the special duties and shall indicate, 

 in particular, the station to which each member must go, and the duties that 

 he has to perform. 



(c) Before the vessel sails, the muster list shall be drawn up. Copies shall 

 be posted in several parts of the ship, and in particular in the crew's quarters. 



(d) The muster list shall show the duties assigned to the different members 

 of the crew in connection with : — 



(i) the closing of the watertight doors, valves and closing mechanisms of 

 scuppers, ash-shoots, and fire doors; 



(ii) the equipping of the lifeboats (including the portable radio apparatus 

 for survival craft) and the other life-saving appliances; 



(iii) the launching of the lifeboats; 



(iv) the general preparation of the other life-saving appliances; 

 (v) the muster of the passengers; and 

 (vi) the extinction of fire. 



(e) The muster list shall show the several duties assigned to the members 

 of the stewards' department in relation to the passengers in case of emergency. 

 These duties shall include : — 



(i) warning the passengers; 



(ii) seeing that they are suitably clad and have put on their lifejackets in 



a proper manner; 

 (iii) assembling the passengers at muster stations; 



(iv) keeping order in the passages and on the stairways, and, generally, 

 controlling the movements of the passengers; and 



(v) ensuring that a supply of blankets is taken to the lifeboats. 



(/) The muster list shall specify definite signals for calling all the crew to 

 their boat, liferaft and fire stations, and shall give full particulars of these 



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