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examined for leakage ; medical stores, hospitals, dispensary are
also inspected by the Board of Trade.
Crew's accommodation examined for space, fittings, ventilation,
ladder ways, lavatory conveniences, and the certificates of the
master, officers and engineers inspected. All watertight doors, deck
equipment and gear are subject to inspection, and in fact everything
that the Surveyor may consider tends to make any part of the ship
and conveniences efficient. Compasses must be adjusted occasionally,
and a certificate is required of the master that any errors are known
to him.
Safety Radiotelegraphy Certificate.—Under the Merchant
Shipping Safety and Load Line Convention, 1932, the wireless
apparatus of both passenger and cargo vessels is subject to an
annual survey by the Board of Trade. In the case of cargo vessels
a Safety Radiotelegraphy Certificate is issued, but in passenger
ships this certificate is embraced by the Passenger and Safety
Certificate.
International Load Line Certificate.—Under the above
Convention, the freeboard is required to be verified annually. This
is carried out by the Classification Surveyor, and the International
Load Line Certificate is endorsed accordingly in the space provided.
The certificate is renewed every four years when the class survey
is carried out.
Survey of Master's and Grew Spaces.—A deduction is
allowed from the tonnage measurement of the vessel in respect of
space solely appropriated for the use of seamen and apprentices,
the deductible space consisting of sleeping rooms, messrooms,
bathrooms, washing places, oilskin and overall lockers, pantries,
food lockers, drying room, hospital.
There must be for each man a space not less than 120 cubic
feet and 15 superficial feet, the space to be at least 6 feet high, and
the flooring to be of wood or an approved composition laid on a
steel deck.
The living quarters must be efficiently lighted, fehe mmim-ft™
standard to be the provision of sufficient natural light when the
ship is new and paint clean, that it will be possible in clear weather
to read the print of an ordinary newspaper in any part of the space*