Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN
FAST RESCUE BOATS
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arrangement complying with the requirements of paragraph 4.1.6 (Float-free
arrangements for liferafts) of the L.S.A.Code so that each floats free and, if
inflatable, inflates automatically when the ship sinks.
Liferafts shall be so stowed as to permit manual release of one raft or
container at a time from their securing arrangements.
The above aragraphs do not apply to liferafts required by regulation
31.1.4.(Survival craft and rescue boats) of the S.O.L.A.S. Convention.
Davit-launched liferafts shall be stowed within reach of the lifting hooks,
unless some means of transfer is provided which is not rendered inoperable
within the limits of trim and list prescribed in paragraph 1.2 (Stowage of survival
craft) S.O.L.A.S. Convention only ship motion or power failure.
Liferafts intended for throw-overboard launching shall be so stowed as
to be readily transferable for launching on either side of the ship unless liferafts,
of the aggregate capacity required by regulation 31.1 ( Survival crafts) of
S.O.L.A.S. Convention to be capable of being launched on either side, are
stowed on each side of the ship.
Fig.
4.14 Liferaft elements
4.3 Rescue boats
Chapter V, L.S.A.Code
Chapter III, S.O.L.A.S Convention
Passengers ships of 500 gross tonnage and over shall carry at least one
rescue boat on each side of the ship.
Cargo ships shall carry at least one rescue boat; a rescue boat may be a
lifeboat either of rigid or inflated construction or a combination of both.