APPENDIX V.

RULES FOR LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

RULES

Made by the Board of Trade under "The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888" (51 & 52 Vict. c. 24), to come into effect on the 1st day of June, 1894 (a).

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, this 9th day of March, 1894. Present The Right Honourable A. J. Mundella, M.P., &c.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, the Board of Trade do hereby make the annexed Rules relating to Life-Saving Appliances, in substitution of any Rules heretofore made under the said Act, and do hereby direct that these Rules shall come into effect on the 1st day of June, 1894. A. J. MUNDELLA.

(Signed)

MERCHANT SHIPPING (LIFE-SAVING AP-
PLIANCES) ACT, 1888.

For the purposes of these Rules, British ships shall be arranged into the following classes :

Division (A).

Class 1 Steamships carrying emigrant passengers subject to all the provisions of the "Passengers Acts "(b).

(a) Made under sections reproduced in § 427 of this Act, and continued in force by $ 745, s. 1.

(b) Now "steerage passengers; "

see § 268, s. 3, and §§ 289, et seq. See definition of such ships as emigrant ships; " § 268, s. 1.

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Class 2

Foreign-going steamships having passenger certificates under the "Merchant Shipping Acts "(c). Class 3 Steamships having passenger certificates under the "Merchant Shipping Acts" (c) authorizing them to carry passengers anywhere within the home-trade limits; that is to say, between places in the United Kingdom, or between the United Kingdom and ports in Europe between the River Elbe and Brest.

Class 4 Foreign-going steamships not certified to carry passengers.

Division (B).

Class 1: Sailing ships carrying emigrant passengers subject to all the provisions of the "Passengers Acts" (d). Class 2 Foreign-going sailing ships carrying passengers, but not subject to all the provisions of the "Passengers Acts" (e).

Class 3 Foreign-going sailing ships not carrying passengers.

Class 4 Sailing ships carrying passengers anywhere within the home-trade limits (ƒ).

Division (C).

Class 1 Steamships not certified to carry passengers plying anywhere within the home-trade limits (f).

:

Class 2 Sailing ships in the same trades not carrying passengers.

Division (D).

Class 1: Steamships having passenger certificates authorizing them to carry passengers within certain specified limits of the home trade; that is to say, on short specified passages along the coasts of the United Kingdom, or between Great Britain and Ireland, or between Great Britain or Ireland and the Isle of Man.

Class 2: Steamships carrying passengers in estuaries or mouths of rivers, or on short excursions or pleasure trips to sea.

Class 3 Steamships not certified to carry passengers, but employed solely in the coasting trade.

Class 4 Sailing ships not carrying passengers, but employed solely in the coasting trade.

Class 5 Steam fish carriers, tug boats, and steam lighters which proceed to sea.

Class 6 Steam launches proceeding for short distances

to sea.

Division (E).

Class 1: Steamships carrying passengers on rivers, lakes, or land-locked inland waters, but not going to sea or into rough waters.

Class 2: Tug boats and steam lighters which do not proceed to sea.

Class 3: Hulks, dredgers, steam hoppers, &c., which proceed to sea and which do not proceed to sea.

GENERAL RULES.

Appendix.

DIVISION (A).-CLASS 1.

Rules for Steamships carrying Emigrant Passengers subject to all the Provisions of the "Passengers Acts" (f). (a.) Ships of Division (A), Class 1, shall carry boats placed under davits, fit and ready for use, and having proper appliances for getting them into the water, in number and capacity as prescribed by the Table in the Appendix to these Rules; such boats shall be equipped in the manner required by and shall be of the description defined in the General Rules appended hereto.

(b.) Masters or owners of ships of this class claiming to carry fewer boats under davits than are given in the Table must declare before the collector or other officers of Customs, at the time of clearance, that the boats actually placed

(ƒ) See note (b), p. 632.

under davits are sufficient to accommodate all persons on board, allowing 10 (ten) cubic feet of boat capacity for each adult person, or "statute adult" (g).

(c.) Not less than half the number of boats placed under davits having at least half the cubic capacity required by the Tables, shall be boats of Section (A) or Section (B). The remaining boats may also be of such description, or may, in the option of the shipowner, conform to Section (C) or Section (D), provided that not more than two boats shall be of Section (D).

(d.) If the boats placed under davits in accordance with the Table do not furnish sufficient accommodation for all persons on board, then additional wood, metal, collapsible, or other boats of approved description (whether placed under davits or otherwise), or approved life-rafts shall be carried. One of these boats may be a steam launch; but in that case the space occupied by the engines and boilers is not to be included in the estimated cubic capacity of the boat. Subject to the provisions contained in paragraph (f.) of these Rules, such additional boats or rafts shall be of at least such carrying capacity that they and the boats required to be placed under davits by the Table provide together in the aggregate, in vessels of 5000 tons gross and upwards, three-fourths, and in vessels of less than 5000 tons gross, one-half, more than the minimum cubic contents required by Column 3 of that Table. For this purpose 3 cubic feet of air-case in the life-raft is to be estimated as 10 cubic feet of internal capacity. Provided always that the rafts will accommodate all the persons for which they are to be certified under the Rules, and also have 3 cubic feet of air-case for each person.

All such additional boats or rafts shall be placed as conveniently for being available as the ship's arrangements admit of, having regard to the avoidance of undue encumbrance of the ship's deck, and to the safety of the ship for her voyage.

(e.) In addition to the life-saving appliances before mentioned, ships of this class shall carry not less than (g) § 268, s. 2.

one approved life-buoy for every boat placed under davits. They shall also carry approved life-belts or other similar approved articles of equal buoyancy suitable for being worn on the person, so that there may be at least one for each person on board the ship.

(f.) Provided nevertheless that no ship of this class shall be required to carry more boats or rafts than will furnish sufficient accommodation for all persons on board.

DIVISION (A).-CLASS 2.

Rules for Foreign-going Steamships having Passenger Certificates under the "Merchant Shipping Acts" (h).

Ships of this class shall be subject to the same requirements as those in Division (A), Class 1.

DIVISION (A).-CLASS 3.

Rules for Steamships having Passenger Certificates under the "Merchant Shipping Acts" (h) authorizing them to carry Passengers anywhere within the Home-Trade Limits (i); that is to say, between places in the United Kingdom, or between the United Kingdom and Ports in Europe between the River Elbe and Brest.

(a.) Ships of this class shall carry boats placed under davits in accordance with the Table.

(b.) Masters or owners of ships of this class claiming to carry fewer boats under davits than are given in the Table must declare before the collector or other officer of Customs that the boats actually placed under davits are sufficient to accommodate all persons on board, allowing 10 (ten) cubic feet of boat capacity for each adult person, or “statute adult" (k).

(c.) Not less than half the number of boats placed under davits shall be boats of Section (A) or Section (B). The remaining boats may also be of such description, or may, in the option of the shipowner, conform to Section (C) or Section (D), provided that not more than two boats shall be of Section (D).