Embarkation and launching arrangements

(1) Survival craft embarkation arrangements shall be so designed that lifeboats can be boarded and launched directly from the stowed position and davit-launched liferafts can be boarded and launched from a position immediately adjacent the stowed position or from a position to which the liferaft is transferred prior to launching in compliance with the requirements of regulation 93(7). (2) Suitable arrangements shall be made to the satisfaction of the Administration for embarkation into survival craft which shall include– (a) one or more embarkation ladders or other approved means to afford access to the survival craft when it is waterborne; (b) means for illuminating the stowage position of survival craft and their launching appliances during preparation for and the process of launching, and also for illuminating the water into which the survival craft are launched until the process of launching is completed, the power for which is to be supplied from the emergency source required by regulation 50. (c) arrangements for warning all persons on board that the ship is about to be abandoned; and (d) means for preventing the discharge of water into the survival craft. Merchant Ships (Registration) 199 (3) Rescue boat embarkation and launching arrangements shall be such that the rescue boat can be boarded and launched in the shortest possible time. (4) Where the rescue boat is one of the ship’s survival craft, the embarkation arrangements and launching station shall comply with the relevant requirements for survival craft of this (5) Rescue boats shall be of sufficient strength and rigidity to enable it to be lowered and recovered with its full complement of persons and equipment.