Life-saving appliances
Lifebuoy
- IMO code
- LSS005
- ISO 7010 number
- E040
- The crew says
- life ring, life buoy
Where you will meet it
Along both sides on the open decks, at the gangway, on the stern and the bow.
What it means in practice
A lifebuoy hangs here. You throw it to a person overboard as close as you can, but not at them.
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).