IS 9067 : 2012 : Ships and marine Techonology - launching Appliances For Davit- Launched Life boats Second Revision

Reffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Second Revision) which is identical with ISO 15516 : 2006 ‘Ships and marine technology - Launching appliances for davit-launched lifeboats’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Marine Engineering and Safety Aids Sectional Committee and approval of the Transport Engineering Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1979 and subsequently revised in 2004. In this second revision besides other changes, safety and maintenance aspects have been especially addressed. Launching appliances for free-fall lifeboats are not covered by this standard because of their different methods of launching, recovery and stowage. Considering the convenience in practice, this standard specifies some values, such as the minimum speed of recovering light-loaded lifeboats by power (when necessary) and therecovery speed of unpowered winch, which are not required by SOLAS but have been given in pre-revised standard published in 2004. This standard is also applicable to launching appliances for fast rescue boats on ro-ro passenger ships.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.