places in the United Kingdom shall be subject to all the provisions contained in the fourth part of this act, and likewise to the same provisions with respect to the certificates of the masters and mates thereof to which British steam ships are subject.

Boats for Sea-going Ships.

CCXCII. The following rules shall be observed with respect to boats and life buoys; (that is to say,) (1). No decked ship (except ships used solely as steam tugs and ships engaged in the whale fishery) shall proceed to sea from any place in the United Kingdom, unless she is provided, according to her tonnage, with boats duly supplied with all requisites for use, and not being fewer in number nor less in their cubic contents than the boats the number and cubic contents of which are specified in the table marked S. in the schedule hereto for the class to which such ship belongs : (2.) No ship carrying more than ten passengers shall proceed to sea from any place in the United Kingdom, unless, in addition to the boats herein-before required, she is also provided with a life-boat furnished with all requisites for use, or unless one of her boats herein-before required is rendered buoyant after the manner of a life boat:

(3.) No such ship as last aforesaid shall proceed to sea unless she is also provided with two life buoys:

And such boats and life buoys shall be kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use: Provided, that the enactments with respect to boats and life buoys herein contained shall not apply in any case in which a certificate has been duly obtained under the tenth section of the "Passengers' Act, 1852."

Boats for Seagoing Ships.

Rules as to boats and life buoys.

Penalties on mas

&c., neglecting to

CCXCIII. In any of the following cases, (that is to say,) (1.) If any ship herein-before required to be provided with boats ters and owners, or life buoys proceeds to sea without being so provided provide boats and therewith, or if any of such boats or life buoys are lost or buoys. rendered unfit for service in the course of the voyage through the wilful fault or negligence of the owner or master; or, (2.) If, in case of any of such boats or life buoys being accidentally lost or injured in the course of the voyage, the master wilfully neglects to replace or repair the same on the first opportunity;

or,

(3.) If such boats and life buoys are not kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use:

Then if the owner appears to be in fault he shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and if the master appears to be in fault he shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

CCXCIV. No officer of customs shall grant a clearance or transire Officers of cusfor any ship herein-before required to be provided with boats or with toms not to clear ships not complylife buoys, unless the same is duly so provided; and if any such ship ing with the above attempts to go to sea without such clearance or transire any such provisions. officer may detain her until she is so provided.

Lights and Fog Signals, and Meeting and Passing. CCXCV. The following rules shall be observed with regard to lights and fog signals; (that is to say,)

Rules as to Lights, and meeting and passing. Regulations as to lights and fog

(1.) The Admiralty shall, from time to time, make regulations signals.
requiring the exhibition of such lights, by such classes of
ships, whether steam or sailing ships, within such places, and
under such circumstances as they think fit, and may, from
time to time, revoke, alter, or vary the same:

(2.) The Admiralty may, if they think fit, make regulations requir-
ing the use of such fog signals, by such classes of ships,
whether steam or sailing ships, within such places and under

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Rule as to ships meeting each other.

Rule for steamers

such circumstances as they think fit, and may, from time to time, revoke, alter, or vary the same:

(3.) All regulations made in pursuance of this section shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall come into operation on a day to be named in the Gazette in which they are published, and the Admiralty shall cause all such regulations to be printed, and shall furnish a copy thereof to any owner or master of a ship who applies for the same, and production of the Gazette containing such regulations shall be sufficient evidence of the due making and purport thereof:

(4.) All owners and masters shall be bound to take notice of the same, and shall, so long as the same continue in force, exhibit such lights, and use such fog signals, at such times, within such places, in such manner, and under such circumstances as are enjoined by such regulations, and shall not exhibit any other lights or use any other fog signals; and in case of default the master, or the owner of the ship, if it appears that he was in fault, shall, for each occasion upon which such regulations are infringed, incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

CCXCVI. Whenever any ship, whether a steam or sailing ship, proceeding in one direction, meets another ship, whether a steam or sailing ship, proceeding in another direction, so that if both ships were to continue their respective courses they would pass so near as to involve any risk of a collision, the helms of both ships shall be put to port so as to pass on the port side of each other; and this rule shall be obeyed by all steam ships and by all sailing ships, whether on the port or starboard tack, and whether closehauled or not, unless the circumstances of the case are such as to render a departure from the rule necessary in order to avoid immediate danger, and subject also to the proviso that due regard shall be had to the dangers of navigation, and, as regards sailing ships on the starboard tack close-hauled, to the keeping such ships under command.

CCXCVII. Every steam ship, when navigating any narrow channel, in narrow chan- shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fair-way or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such steam ship.

nels.

Build and Equipment of Steam Ships.

CCXCVIII. If, in any case of collision, it appears to the Court before which the case is tried that such collision was occasioned by i the non-observance of any rule for the exhibition of lights or the use of fog signals, issued in pursuance of the powers herein-before contained, or of the foregoing rule as to the passing of steam and sailing ships, or of the foregoing rule as to a steam ship keeping to that side of a narrow channel which lies on the starboard side, the owner of the ship by which such rule has been infringed shall not be entitled to recover any recompence whatever, for any damage sustained by such ship in such collision, unless it is shown, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the rule necessary.

CCXCIX. In case any damage to person or property arises from the non-observance by any ship of any of the said rules, such damage shall be deemed to have been occasioned by the wilful default of the person in charge of the deck of such ship at the time, unless it is shown, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the rule necessary.

Build and Equipment of Steam Ships.

CCC. The following rules shall be observed with respect to the Iron steamers to build of iron steam ships; (that is to say,)

be divided by

(1.) Every steam ship built of iron, of one hundred tons or

titions.

upwards, the building of which commenced after the twenty- water-tight par-
eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-
six, and every steam ship built of iron, of less burden than
one hundred tons, the building of which commenced after
the seventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-one, (except ships used solely as steam tugs,) shall be
divided by substantial transverse water-tight partitions, so
that the fore part of the ship shall be separated from the engine
room by one of such partitions, and so that the after part of
such ship shall be separated from the engine room by another
of such partitions:

(2.) Every steam ship built of iron, the building of which com-
mences after the passing of this act, shall be divided by such
partitions as aforesaid into not less than three equal parts, or
as nearly so as circumstances permit:

(3.) In such last-mentioned ships each such partition as aforesaid shall be of equal strength with the side plates of the ship with which it is in contact:

(4.) Every screw steam ship built of iron, the building of which commences after the passing of this act, shall, in addition to the above partitions, be fitted with a small water-tight compartment inclosing the after extremity of the shaft:

grant certificates

And no officer of customs or other person shall grant a clearance or Officers of transire for any iron steam ship required to be divided or fitted as customs not to aforesaid, unless the same is so divided and fitted; and if any such except so divided. ship attempts to ply or go to sea without such clearance or transire, any such officer may detain her until she is so divided and fitted; and if any steam ship herein-before required to be so divided or fitted plies or goes to sea without being so divided or fitted the owner shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

Safety valve.

CCCI. Steam ships shall be provided as follows; (that is to say,) Equipment of (1.) Every steam ship of which a survey is hereby required shall steam ship: be provided with a safety valve upon each boiler, so constructed as to be out of the control of the engineer when the steam is up, and, if such valve is in addition to the ordinary valve, it shall be so constructed as to have an area not less and a pressure not greater than the area of and pressure on that valve:

adjusted.

(2.) Every sea-going steam ship employed to carry passengers shall Compasses to be
have her compasses properly adjusted from time to time;
such adjustment, in the case of ships surveyed as herein-after
mentioned, to be made to the satisfaction of the shipwright
surveyor, and according to such regulations as may be issued
by the Board of Trade:

(3.) Every sea-going steam ship (unless used solely as a steam Fire hose.
tug) shall be provided with a hose adapted for the purpose of
extinguishing fire in any part of the ship, and capable of
being connected with the engines of the ship:

(4.) Every sea-going steam ship employed to carry passengers Signals.
shall be provided with the following means of making signals
of distress; (that is to say,) twelve blue lights or twelve port
fires, and one cannon with ammunition for at least twelve
charges, or, in the discretion of the master or owner of such
ship, with such other means of making signals (if any) as may
have previously been approved by the Board of Trade:
(5.) Every home-trade steam ship employed to carry passengers
by sea shall be provided with such shelter for the protection
of deck passengers (if any) as the Board of Trade, having
regard to the nature of the passage, the number of deck
passengers to be carried, the season of the year, the safety
of the ship, and the circumstances of the case, may require:
And if any steam ship as aforesaid plies or goes to sea from any

Shelter for deck passengers.

Penalty for improper weight on safety valve.

Survey of
Passenger
Steamers.

senger steamer.

port in the United Kingdom without being so provided as hereinbefore required, then for each default in any of the above requisites the owner shall (if he appears to be in fault) incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and the master shall (if he appears to be in fault) incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

CCCII. If any person places an undue weight on the safety valve of any steam ship, or, in the case of steam ships surveyed as hereinafter mentioned, increases such weight beyond the limits fixed by such engineer surveyor as herein-after mentioned, he shall, in addition to any other liabilities he may incur by so doing, incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.

Survey of Passenger Steamers.

CCCIII. For the purpose of the enactments herein contained with respect to surveys and certificates of passenger steam ships, the Definition of pas word "passengers" shall be held to include any persons carried in a steam ship, other than the master and crew and the owner, his family and servants; and the expression "passenger steamer" shall be held to include every British steam ship carrying passengers to, from, or between any place or places in the United Kingdom, excepting steam ferry boats working in chains, commonly called steam bridges.

Passenger

steamers to be surveyed.

Board of Trade to

and fix their remuneration.

CCCIV. Every passenger steamer shall be surveyed twice at the least in each year in manner herein-after mentioned.

CCCV. The Board of Trade may from time to time appoint such appoint surveyors, number of fit and proper persons to be shipwright surveyors and engineer surveyors for the purposes of this act at such ports or places as it thinks proper, and may also appoint a surveyor general for the United Kingdom, and may from time to time remove such surveyors or any of them, and may from time to time fix and alter the rates of remuneration to be received by such surveyors.

Surveyors to have power to inspect.

Board of Trade to

regulate mode of making surveys.

Penalty on sur

fees unlawfully.

CCCVI. It shall be lawful for the said surveyors, in the execution of their duties, to go on board any steam ship at all reasonable times, and to inspect the same or any part thereof, or any of the machinery, boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the master or mate, to which the provisions of this act or any of the regulations to be made by virtue thereof apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage, and, if in consequence of any accident to any such ship or for any other reason they consider it necessary so to do, to require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof; and any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such steam ship, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this act, shall incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

CCCVII. The said surveyors shall execute their duties under the direction of the Board of Trade, and such board shall make regulations as to the manner in which the surveys herein-after mentioned shall be made, and as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of any travelling or other expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties, and may thereby determine the persons by whom, and the conditions under which such payment shall be made.

CCCVIII. Every surveyor who demands or receives, directly or veyors receiving indirectly, from the owner or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this act, any fee or remuneration whatsoever, for or in respect of such survey, otherwise than as the officer and by the direction of the Board of Trade, shall incur a penalty not exceed ing fifty pounds.

Owners to have surveys made by shipwright and

CCCIX. The owner of every passenger steamer shall cause the same to be surveyed, at the times herein-after directed, by one of the

said shipwright surveyors and by one of the said engineer surveyors engineer surso appointed as aforesaid; such shipwright surveyor being, in the veyors, and surveyors to give case of iron steamers, a person who is in the judgment of the Board declarations. of Trade properly qualified to survey such ships; and such surveyors shall thereupon, if satisfied that they can with propriety do so, give to such owner declarations as follows:

The declaration of the shipwright surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars; (that is to say,)

(1.) That the hull of the ship is sufficient for the service intended, and in good condition :

(2.) That the partitions, boats, life buoys, lights, signals, compasses, and shelter for deck passengers, and the certificates of the master and mate or mates, are such, and in such condition, as required by this act:

(3.) The time (if less than six months) for which the said hull and
equipments will be sufficient:

(4.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and
equipments, the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit
to ply:
(5.) The number of passengers which the ship is in the judgment
of the surveyor fit to carry, distinguishing, if necessary,
between the respective numbers to be carried on the deck
and in the cabins, and in different parts of the deck and
cabins; such numbers to be subject to such conditions and
variations, according to the time of year, the nature of the
voyage, the cargo carried, or other circumstances, as the case
requires:

And the declaration of the engineer surveyor shall contain statements
of the following particulars; (that is to say,)

(1.) That the machinery of the ship is sufficient for the service intended, and in good condition:

(2.) The time (if less than six months) for which such machinery will be sufficient:

(3.) That the safety valves and fire hose are such, and in such con-
dition, as are required by this act:

(4.) The limits of the weight to be placed on the safety valves:
(5.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the machinery,
the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply:

And such declarations shall be in such form as the Board of Trade
directs.

CCCX. The said owner shall transmit such declarations to the Transmission of declarations to Board of Trade, within fourteen days after the dates of the receipt Board of Trade. thereof respectively; and in default shall forfeit a sum not exceed Penalty for delay. ing ten shillings, for every day that the sending of such declarations is delayed; and such sum shall be paid upon the delivery of the certificate herein-after mentioned, in addition to the fee payable for the same, and shall be applied in the same manner as such fees.

transmission of

CCCXI. In all cases where it is possible, the said half-yearly Times appointed surveys shall be made in the months of April and of October, and for surveys and the declarations shall be transmitted on or before the thirtieth day of declarations. April and the thirty-first day of October respectively; but if the owner of any passenger steamer is unable to have the same surveyed in the month of April or October, (as the case may be,) either by reason of such ship being absent from the United Kingdom during the whole of those periods respectively, or by reason of such ship or the machinery thereof being under construction or repair, or of such ship being laid up in dock, or for any other reason satisfactory to the Board of Trade, then he shall have the same surveyed as aforesaid as soon thereafter as possible, and shall transmit such declarations to the Board of Trade within fourteen days after the receipt thereof, together with a statement of the reasons which have