Life-saving appliances
Line-throwing appliance
- IMO code
- LSS015
- ISO 7010 number
- E050
Where you will meet it
On the bridge or deck, at the container of the appliance.
What it means in practice
A line-throwing appliance: it fires a thin line several hundred metres, for example to another ship or the shore, to pull across a heavier rope.
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).