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who, having been duly authorized to that effect, have met in conference at London and have 

 drawn up by common consent the following Convention : 



Chapter I. — Safety of Life at Sea. 

 Article 1. 



The High Contracting Parties undertake to give effect to the provisions of this Con- 

 vention, for the purpose of securing safety of life at sea, to promulgate all regulations and 

 to take all steps which may be necessary to give the Convention full and complete effect. 



The provisions of this Convention are completed by Regulations which have the same 

 force and take effect at the same time as the Convention. Every reference to the Con- 

 vention implies at the same time a reference to the Regulations annexed thereto. 



Chapter IL — Vessels to which this Convention Applies. 



Article 2. 



Except where otherwise provided by this Convention, the merchant vessels of any 

 of the States of the High Contracting Parties which are mechanically propelled, which carry 

 more than 12 passengers and which proceed from a port of one of the said States to a 

 port situated outside that State, or conversely, are subject to the provisions of this Con- 

 vention. Ports situated in the Colonies, Possessions or Protectorates of the High Contracting 

 Parties are considered to be ports outside the States of the High Contracting Parties. 



Persons who are on board by reason of force majeure or in consequence of the obliga- 

 tion laid upon the master to carry shipwrecked or other persons are not deemed to be pas- 

 sengers. 



Article 3. 



There are excepted from this Convention, save in the cases where the Convention other- 

 wise provides, vessels making voyages specified in a schedule to be communicated by each 

 High Contracting Party to the British Government at the time of ratifying the Convention. 



No schedule may include voyages in the course of which the vessels go more than 200 

 sea miles from the nearest coast. 



Each High Contracting Party has the right subsequently to modify its schedule of voy- 

 ages in conformity with this Article on condition that it notifies the British Government 

 of such modification. 



Each High Contracting Party has the right to claim from another Contracting Party the 

 benefit of the privileges of the Convention for all of its vessels which are engaged in any one 

 of the voyages mentioned in its own schedule. For this purpose the Party claiming such 

 benefit shall impose on the said vessels the obligations prescribed by the Convention in so 

 far as, having regard to the nature of the voyage, these obligations would not be unneces- 

 sary or unreasonable. 



Article 4. 



No vessel, not subject to the provisions of the Convention at the time of its departure, 

 can be subjected to the Convention in the course of its voyage, if stress of weather or any 



