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Life-saving appliances

Lifebuoy with line

LSS006 sign: Lifebuoy with line
green square
IMO code
LSS006
ISO 7010 number
E041

Where you will meet it

At the lifebuoys fitted with a line, among others at the gangway and the mooring stations.

What it means in practice

A lifebuoy with a floating line: after the throw you can pull the casualty to the ship’s side.

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.

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Sign colours are normative. The file is public domain or CC0 (a Commons recreation of the symbol named by the IMO annex).

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