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Life-saving appliance work covers survival craft, launching appliances and release gear, liferafts, protective equipment and radio LSA. SOLAS Ch. III and the LSA Code govern it and route it to two instruments: IMO Res. MSC.402(96), mandatory under SOLAS III/20.11.5, for boats, davits and release gear; IMO Res. A.761(18) as amended for liferaft servicing stations. Both are granted per flag, scope and make, so the authorisation question is answered in writing with the quotation, not here.
The instruments that govern this work, cited as a superintendent would write them. What each one requires of the shipowner — not what we sell.
The Company keeps every life-saving appliance in operational readiness before the ship leaves port and throughout the voyage, maintained and inspected on stated intervals, with weekly (III/20.6) and monthly (III/20.7) inspections entered in the log-book.
Appliances carried must be of a type approved by the Administration and meet the Code's construction and performance requirements. Appliances subject to deterioration with age are marked with their age or replacement date, and the Administration sets the period of acceptability.
Mandatory since 1 January 2020 (Res. MSC.404(96)). Annual examination and testing (sec.4.2) and five-yearly overhaul and overload testing (sec.4.3) need certified personnel of the manufacturer, or of a provider authorised by the Administration for those makes and types, or accepted from another Administration (sec.7.4.1, 7.4.3). Routine maintenance from the manual stays with the crew (sec.4.1).
Launching appliances are examined and the winch brake dynamically tested at the annual survey, with a 1.1 × loaded-boat test every five years (11.1); release gear (11.2) and davit-launched liferaft hooks (11.3) the same; the boats themselves annually (11.4); all of it to MSC.402(96) (11.5).
Every inflatable liferaft, inflatable lifejacket and marine evacuation system is serviced at intervals not exceeding 12 months (20.8.1.1) at an approved servicing station (20.8.1.2). Where 12 months is impracticable the Administration may extend the period to 17 months.
Sets the conditions a servicing station must meet to be approved by the Administration, demonstrating competence for the liferafts of each manufacturer whose rafts it services, and the servicing procedure the station follows — including the gas inflation test at five-year intervals and the necessary additional pressure test yearly after the tenth year. It does not set the ≤12-month servicing interval; that is SOLAS III/20.8.1.1. It is a Recommendation, and reaches the ship through the 'approved servicing station' requirement in SOLAS III/20.8.1.2.
What is due, how often, and which instrument sets the period. Where an interval comes from the manufacturer or from class rather than from an IMO instrument, the table says so.
| Item | Interval | Set by | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeboat and rescue boat thorough examination | Annual | SOLAS III/20.11.4 sets the interval; III/20.11.5 requires the work to be carried out in accordance with IMO Res. MSC.402(96), mandatory since 1 January 2020 | Includes an operational test of the boat and its systems |
| Lifeboat and rescue boat overhaul | 5-yearly | IMO Res. MSC.402(96) sec.6.3 sets the five-year thorough examination and overload tests, made mandatory by SOLAS III/20.11.5; the boat's own overhaul scope is a periodical activity defined by the manufacturer (sec.2.2.7) and comes from its maintenance manual, planned into the same five-year window | Structure, buoyancy, engine, steering and systems; planned with the davit and release gear work |
| Launching appliance examination and winch brake test | Annual | SOLAS III/20.11.1.1 (examination) and III/20.11.1.2 (winch brake test); IMO Res. MSC.402(96) | Brake tested at the mass of the boat, no persons on board |
| Davit winch brake dynamic test | 5-yearly | SOLAS III/20.11.1.2; IMO Res. MSC.402(96) sec.6.3.1 | Proof load equal to 1.1 times the weight of the survival craft or rescue boat and its full complement of persons and equipment (SOLAS III/20.11.1.2; MSC.402(96) sec.6.3.1). The brake is applied abruptly at maximum lowering speed. |
| On-load release gear operational test | Annual | SOLAS III/20.11.2.1; IMO Res. MSC.402(96) | Covers fast rescue boat release gear and free-fall lifeboat release systems |
| On-load release gear overhaul and load test | 5-yearly | SOLAS III/20.11.2.2; IMO Res. MSC.402(96) sec.6.3.3 | 1.1 × the loaded boat; free-fall release systems are carved out by III/20.11.2.3 |
| Lifeboat and rescue boat falls renewal | 5-yearly | SOLAS III/20.4 | Or earlier on deterioration; inspected where the falls pass through sheaves |
| Lifeboat launch drills, including free-fall boats | 3-monthly; free-fall 6-monthly | SOLAS Ch. III Reg. 19, abandon ship drill requirements | Ship's drill, not a service attendance; rescue boats each month as far as is reasonable and practicable, and in all cases at least once every three months. Simulated launching per MSC.1/Circ.1578/Rev.1 |
| Inflatable liferaft and lifejacket servicing | ≤12 months | SOLAS III/20.8.1.1 sets the interval; III/20.8.1.2 requires an approved servicing station, whose approval conditions are in IMO Res. A.761(18) as amended | Administration may extend to 17 months; some rafts are separately approved for a longer interval |
| Liferaft gas inflation (GI) test | 5-yearly | IMO Res. A.761(18) as amended, servicing procedure for inflatable liferafts; carried out at a station approved under that resolution for the raft make and type | Inflation from the raft's own cylinder followed by a pressure-holding test of not less than one hour; carried out at the fifth-year service in place of that year's working pressure test, not as an extra attendance. The separate necessary additional pressure (NAP) test runs yearly after the tenth year. The raft's servicing manual governs. |
| Hydrostatic release unit servicing | ≤12 months | SOLAS III/20.9 | Disposable units are replaced at the date on the unit, not serviced; extension to 17 months possible |
| Immersion and anti-exposure suit inspection and testing | Annual; 3-yearly pressure test | Inspected at the annual survey under SOLAS Ch. I within the SOLAS III/20 inspection regime; MSC/Circ.1114 recommends air pressure testing of seams and closures at intervals not exceeding three years | MSC/Circ.1114 recommends more frequent testing for suits over ten years of age |
| EPIRB annual performance test | Annual | SOLAS IV/15.9 | Shore-based maintenance at intervals not exceeding five years at an approved shore-based maintenance facility (IV/15.9.2). The annual test is tied to the certificate, not to a rolling anniversary: on passenger ships within three months before the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate expiry date; on cargo ships within three months before the expiry date, or within three months either side of the anniversary date, of the Cargo Ship Safety Radio Certificate. SOLAS IV/15 sets no 17-month extension. |
| Pyrotechnics, lights and smoke signal renewal | On marked expiry | Manufacturer's marked expiry date; the LSA Code requires the marking, not an interval | Pyrotechnics typically carry three years from manufacture; work to the date on the item |
Attendance is planned from the nearest of 6 service bases to any of the 299 ports in the published index, around the clock. If your port is not listed, ask — the index is what we publish, not the limit of where we mobilise.
We publish no authorisations here: an approval you cannot check is worth nothing. MSC.402(96) authorisation is granted per Administration and per scope, and the document names the makes and types it covers (sec.7.4.1). Send the flag and what is fitted: you get a written answer, including where the answer is no. Documentation relevant to the job we quote goes out in writing with the quotation, and whatever it shows as granted is then verifiable by you on the granting Administration's own register.
That depends on the scope, not the calendar. A five-yearly dynamic test needs boat, davit and load rigged: planned work, not a call-out. Send ETA, ETD, berth and the makes and types; you get an attendance plan stating what fits the window and what does not. We attend from the nearest of six bases — Istanbul, Izmir, Iskenderun, Varna, Constanta, London — 24/7 to every port we cover.
A surveyor accepts a report on the instrument it is written against and the authorisation behind it. Our reports state what was examined, the load applied and the interval SOLAS sets. The authorisation half is flag-, scope- and make-specific, and we answer it in writing, not here: send the flag and the makes and types and you have that answer before the attendance, with whatever documentation is relevant to the job enclosed for the surveyor to verify on the granting authority's own register.
It goes on the report as a defect, with photographs, and is not recorded as fit for service until cleared. We quote the repair separately, listing the parts and consumables it needs by make and type, with the source and the lead time for each stated on the quotation before you accept. Where a defect affects a certificate, the master, class and flag decide; we provide the evidence.
Not the rafts themselves. Inflatable liferafts are serviced at a station approved under IMO Res. A.761(18), as amended by MSC.55(66) and MSC.388(94), and the 12-month interval comes from SOLAS III/20.8.1.1. But if the rafts are davit-launched, MSC.402(96) sec.2.1.2 covers the launching appliance and automatic release hook, and SOLAS III/20.11.3 sets an annual examination and test plus a five-yearly overhaul with a 1.1 × load test. Two regimes, checked separately.
Only in part. SOLAS III/20.6 and III/20.7 give the crew the weekly and monthly inspections; MSC.402(96) sec.4.1 lets shipboard personnel do routine maintenance from the manual. The annual examination and operational test (sec.4.2) and the five-yearly overhaul and overload test (sec.4.3) need certified personnel of the manufacturer or an authorised service provider. Sec.4.2 allows the ship operator to be that provider, but only where it is authorised for those makes and types.
The equipment actually found on ships, indexed by category, with the corporate history a superintendent needs — a plate still says Norsafe, Schat-Harding, Germanischer Lloyd. This is what the work covers. It is not a list of approvals: maker authorisation is granted per make and per type, and ours is supplied in writing with a quotation.
PALFINGER MARINE
VIKING Life-Saving Equipment
Hatecke
Fr. Fassmer GmbH & Co. KG
Survitec
LALIZAS
DuarryPALFINGER MARINEFr. Fassmer GmbH & Co. KGHateckeSurvitec
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Jotron
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Dräger
MSA SafetyRenamedMarks are reproduced on their own light ground, unmodified, and are the property of their owners. A mark here identifies equipment this work covers. It does not indicate any endorsement, authorisation or approval of ShipCertify by its owner.
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Quote and attendance plan by return. Emergency attendance 24/7.