46 C.F.R. § 108.575

Current through September 30, 2024
Section 108.575 - Survival craft and rescue boat equipment
(a) All lifeboat and rescue boat equipment must be as follows:
(1) The equipment must be secured within the boat by lashings, storage in lockers, or compartments, storage in brackets or similar mounting arrangements or other suitable means.
(2) The equipment must be secured in such a manner as not to interfere with any abandonment procedures or reduce seating capacity.
(3) The equipment must be as small and of as little mass as possible.
(4) The equipment must be packed in a suitable and compact form.
(5) The equipment should be stowed so the items do not-
(i) Reduce the seating capacity;
(ii) Adversely affect the seaworthiness of the survival craft or rescue boat; or
(iii) Overload the launching appliance.
(b) Each lifeboat, rigid liferaft, and rescue boat, unless otherwise stated in this paragraph, must carry the equipment specified for it in table § 108.575(b) of this section. A lifeboat that is also a rescue boat must carry the equipment in the table column marked for a lifeboat. Each item in the table has the same description as in § 199.175 of this chapter.

Table 108.575(b)-Survival Craft Equipment

Item No.Item International serviceOther than international service
Lifeboat Rigid liferaft Rescue boat Lifeboat Rigid liferaft Rescue boat
1Bailer1111111
2Bilge pump211
3Boathook2121
4Bucket32121
5Can opener33
6Compass1111
7Dipper11
8Drinking cup11
9Fire extinguisher1111
10First-aid kit111111
11Fishing kit11
12Flashlight111111
13Hatchet22
14Heaving line212212
15Instruction card11
16Jackknife11
17Knife1 41111
18Ladder1111
19Mirror, signaling1111
20Oars (units)5 611
Paddles22
21Painter211211
22Provisions (units per person)11
23Pump71
24Radar reflector111
25Rainwater collection device1
26Repair kit711
27Sea anchor121121
28Searchlight1111
29Seasickness kit (kits/person)1111
30Signal, smoke2221
31Signal, hand flare6666
32Signal, parachute flare4444
33Skates and fenders811
34Sponge72222
35Survival instructions1111
36Table of lifesaving signals1111
37Thermal protective aid (percent of persons)910%10%10%10%10%10%
38Tool kit11
39Towline101111
40Water (liters per person)31.531
41Whistle111111

Notes:

1 Each liferaft approved for 13 persons or more must carry two of these items.

2 Bilge pumps are not required for boats of self-bailing design.

3 Not required for inflated or rigid/inflated rescue boats.

4 A hatchet counts toward this requirement in rigid rescue boats.

5 Oars not required on a free-fall lifeboat; a unit of oars means the number of oars specified by the manufacturer.

6 Rescue boats may substitute buoyant oars for paddles, as specified by the manufacturer.

7 Not required for a rigid rescue boat.

8 Required if specified by the boat manufacturer.

9 Sufficient thermal protective aids are required for at least 10% of the persons the survival craft is equipped to carry, but not less than two.

10 Required only if the lifeboat is also the rescue boat.

46 C.F.R. §108.575

CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996, as amended at 63 FR 52814, Oct. 1, 1998