Instructions for the guidance of Surveyors (eBook)

The eBook contains instructions for surveyors involved in the following surveys:

• Carriage of Cargoes, Volume 1 - The carriage of packaged cargoes and Cargo units (including containers and vehicles)
• Carriage of Cargoes, Volume 2 - Solid Bulk Cargoes
• Crew Accommodation in Merchant Ships
• Fire Protection Arrangements
• International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft, HSC Code
• International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention, the ISM Code
• Life-saving appliances Volume 1
• Life-saving appliances Volume 2 (testing)
• Lights and Signalling Equipment
• Load Lines
• Merchant Shipping Navigational Equipment
• Passenger Ship Construction, Classes I, II & II(A)
• Passenger Ship Construction, Classes III to VI(A)
• Prevention of Oil Pollution from Ships
• Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships and the Provision and Use of Port Waste Reception Facilities
• Radio Installations on Fishing Vessels
• Radio Installations on GMDSS Ships
• Survey of Chemical Tankers
• Survey of Gas Carriers.

Objectives and Instructions

These Instructions are issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), an Executive Agency of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions for the guidance of marine surveyors in surveying life-saving appliances of ships for the purpose of ensuring compliance with the various Statutory Instruments covering merchant shipping. They also indicate to shipowners, boatbuilders and others concerned the procedure which the MCA adopts for the survey and approval of life-saving appliances.

The Instructions should be read in conjunction with the Instructions issued by the MCA relating to passenger ships, load-line, fire protection, navigational and radio equipment and oil pollution prevention.

Survey of Gas Carriers

International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft

Fire Protection Arrangements

Carriage of Cargoes Volume 1 - The Carriage of Packaged Cargoes and Cargo Units (including Containers and Vehicles)

Passenger Ship Construction - Classes I, II & II(A)

Prevention of Oil Pollution from Ships

Passenger Ship Construction - Classes III to VI(A)

Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships and the Provision and Use of Port Waste Reception Facilities

Load Line

Survey of Lights and Signalling Equipment

Survey of Life-Saving Appliances Volume 1

Survey of Chemical Tankers

Survey of Life-Saving Appliances Volume 2 - Testing of Life-Saving Appliances

Merchant Shipping Navigational Equipment

Radio Installations on GMDSS Ships

Radio Installations on Fishing Vessels

Survey of Crew Accommodation in Merchant Ships

International Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution Prevention (The ISM Code)

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