Life-saving appliances
Survival craft distress signal
- IMO code
- LSS013
- ISO 7010 number
- E048
Where you will meet it
At the pyrotechnics containers of the survival craft.
What it means in practice
Pyrotechnic signals (rockets, flares, smoke floats) for calling help from a boat or 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).