C124 SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA 



(/z) Means shall be provided for bringing the lifeboats against the ship'a 

 side and there holding them so that persons may be safely embarked. 



(/) Lifeboats, together with the emergency boats required by sum 

 paragraph (b) (ii) of Regulation 35 of this Chapter, shall be served by wire 

 rope falls, together with winches of an approved type which, in the case of 

 the emergency boats, shall be capable of quick recovery of those boats. 

 Exceptionally, the Administration may allow manila rope falls or falls of 

 another approved material with or without winches (except that the 

 emergency boats shall be required to be served by winches which are capable 

 of quick recovery of those boats) where they are satisfied that manila rope 

 falls or falls of another approved material are adequate. 



0') At least two lifelines shall be fitted to the davit spans, and the falls 

 and lifelines shall be long enough to reach the water with the ship at its 

 lightest sea-going draught and listed to 15 degrees either way. Lower fall 

 blocks shall be fitted with a suitable ring or long link for attaching to the sling 

 hooks unless an approved type of disengaging gear is fitted. 



(k) Where mechanically powered appliances are fitted for the recovery 

 of the lifeboats, efficient hand gear shall also be provided. Where davits 

 are recovered by action of the falls by power, safety devices shall be fitted 

 which will automatically cut off the power before the davits come against the 

 stops in order to avoid overstressing the wire rope falls or davits. 



(/) Lifeboats shall have the falls ready for service, and arrangements shall 

 be made for speedily, but not necessarily simultaneously, detaching the 

 lifeboats from the falls. The point of attachment of the lifeboats to the falls 

 shall be at such height above the gunwale as to ensure stability when lowering 

 the lifeboats. 



(m) In ships employed as whale factory ships, ships employed as fish 

 processing or canning factory ships and ships engaged in the carriage of 

 persons employed in the whaling, fish processing or canning industries, in 

 which there are carried lifeboats and liferafts in accordance with sub- 

 paragraph (0 (2) of paragraph (b) of Regulation 35 no approved launching 

 devices need be provided for the liferafts, but there shall be provided such 

 devices sufficient in number, in the opinion of the Administration, to enable 

 the liferafts carried in accordance with sub-paragraph (/) (1) of that paragraph 

 to be put into the water loaded with the number of persons they are permitted 

 to accommodate, in not more than 30 minutes in calm conditions. 

 Approved launching devices so provided shall, so far as practicable, be 

 distributed equally on each side of the ship. Every liferaft carried on ships 

 in which an approved launching device is required to be provided shall be of 

 a type which is capable of being launched by such a device. 



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