032 030 028 0 27 026 025 023 023 0 20 0 8 10 8 6 8 1 7 6 7 6 7 3 7 3 611 5 6 64 Length Extreme. Breadth Depth. Sided Keel Moulded Stem and stern post, sided Transom, thick Floors Futtocks Sided Sided Moulded Grown to shape Moulded Lower end Upper end 2 11 2 10 28 3" 43" 43" 43" 43" 41" 4" 4" 4" 41" 13" 1" 11" 11" 1" 13" 13" 13" 18" No. No. No. No. No. 18" 13" 18" 11" 11" 11" 11" 11" 1" 1" 4 No. 4 4 4 4 2 No. No. No. No. 2 2 CHAPTER III. BRITISH RULES FOR STEAMSHIPS CARRYING PASSENGERS, BOATS AND LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES. (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 (see page 433); 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 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." (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 5,000 tons gross and upwards, three fourths, and in vessels of less than 5,000 tons gross, one half, more than the minimum cubic contents required by column 3 of the 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 |