Life-saving appliances
Liferaft Knife
- IMO code
- LSS022
- ISO 7010 number
- E035
Where you will meet it
At the liferaft station, where the painter is made fast.
What it means in practice
A knife for cutting the painter that ties the inflated raft to the ship, once everybody is inside the raft.
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).