Emergency equipment
Shipboard general alarm
- IMO code
- EES012
- ISO 7010 number
- E031
- The crew says
- general alarm
Where you will meet it
At the manual general alarm buttons, located on the decks and in the accommodation.
What it means in practice
This is where the ship’s general alarm is raised: seven or more short blasts and one long blast, repeated on the whistle and the alarm bells.
Legal basis
Annex to IMO resolution A.1116(30) (adopted 05.12.2017), table of emergency equipment location markings. Mandatory on ships built from 01.01.2019; older ships may carry signs per resolution A.760(18). 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).