Life-saving appliances
Lifeboat
- IMO code
- LSS001
- ISO 7010 number
- E036
Where you will meet it
At the lifeboat embarkation stations, on the way to them and on the davits.
What it means in practice
A lifeboat is here: the craft in which the ship is abandoned during evacuation. Your boat is assigned by the muster list.
Worth knowing
A lifeboat is not a rescue boat. The rescue boat is for picking people out of the water, not for evacuating the crew.
Legal basis
Annex to IMO resolution A.1116(30) (adopted 05.12.2017), table of life-saving appliance markings. Mandatory on ships built from 01.01.2019; older ships may carry signs per resolution A.760(18). Requirements for the equipment itself: SOLAS chapter III and the LSA Code. Graphic pattern of the symbol: ISO 7010.
This is not a legal text: in any doubt the current wording of the resolution and regulations decides.
Download
Sign colours are normative. The file is public domain or CC0 (a Commons recreation of the symbol named by the IMO annex).