W. R. SPENCE. A. SPENCER. N. G. LELY. G. L. CORBETT. NOWROJEE DADABHOY AllBless. KAVAS OOKERJEE. J. S. PAGE. EMIL KROGH. AAGE H. Larsen. A. OZOLS. G. LUDERS DE NEGRI. E. BRYN. J. SCHÖNHEYDER. THOMAS M. WILFORD. C. HOLDSWORTH. С. Fock. A. VAN DRIEL. JOH. BRAUTIGAM. J. R. WIERDSMA. M. D. FAURA. A. POKLEWSKI-KOZIELL. THOMAZ RIBEIRO DE MELLO. CARLOS THEODORO DA COsta. D. BOGOMOLOFF. S. HORACIO CARÍSIMO. T. C. GIANNINI. FINAL PROTOCOL At the moment of signing the International Load Line Convention concluded this day, the under-mentioned Plenipotentiaries have agreed on the following: I. Ships engaged solely on voyages on the Great Lakes of North America and ships engaged in other inland waters are to be regarded as outside the scope of the Convention. · II. This Convention is not applied to the existing ships of the United States of America and of France of the lumber schooner type propelled by power, with or without sails, or by sails alone. III. The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall convoke a Conference of the Contracting Governments of the countries to which tankers belong, upon request of the United States of America, at any time within the five-year period mentioned in Article 20, for the purpose of discussing matters relating to tanker freeboard. The Contracting Governments will not raise any objection to the provisions contained in this Convention in regard to tanker load line being altered as may be determined at such Conference, provided that the conclusions then reached are communicated forthwith to the Governments signatory to the present Convention and that no objection is received by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland within six months of the despatch of such communication. In Witness whereof the Plenipotentiaries have drawn up this Final Protocol which shall have the same force and the same validity as if the provisions thereof had been inserted in the text of the Convention to which it belongs. Done at London this fifth day of July, 1930, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which shall transmit certified true copies thereof to all signatory Governments. (L.S.) GUSTAV KOENIGS. WALTER LAAS. KARL STURM. V. C. DUFFY. R. GRIMARD. A. JOHNSTON. OSCAR BUNSTER. GUILLERMO PATTERSON. EMIL KROGH. AAGE H. LARSEN. H. P. HAGELBERG. HERBERT B. WALKER. DAVID ARNOTT, LAURENS PRIOR. HOWARD C. TOWLE. ALBERT F. PILLSBURY. ROBERT F. HAND. JAS. KENNEDY. H. W. WARLEY. JOHN G. TAWRESEY. E. PALMSTIERNA. E. EGGERT. A. H. SAASTAMOINEN. B. BRANDT. JEAN MARIE. A. DE BERLHE. H. F. OLIVER. ALFRED J. DANIEL. C. HIPWOOD. J. FOSTER KING. J. MONTGOMERIE. CHARLES J. O. SANDERS. W. R. SPENCE. A. SPENCER. N. G. LELY. G. L. CORBETT. NOWROJEE DADABHOY ALLBLESS. KAVAS ОOKERJEE. J. S. PAGE. EMIL KROGH. AAGE H. LARSEN. H. P. HAGELBERG. A. OZOLS. G. LUDERS DE NEGRI. E. BRYN. J. SCHÖNHEYDER. THOMAS M. WILFORD. C. HOLDSWORTH. C. Fock. A. VAN DRIEL. JOH. BRAUTIGAM. J. R. WIERDSMA. M. D. FAURA. A. POKLEWSKI-KOZIELL. THOMAZ RIBEIRO DE MELLO. CARLOS THEODORO DA COSTA. D. BOGOMOLOFF. S. HORACIO CARÍSIMO. T. C. GIANNINI. ANNEX I Rules for Determining Maximum Load Lines of Merchant Ships PART I.-GENERAL The Rules necessarily assume that the nature and stowage of the cargo, ballast, &c., are such as to secure sufficient stability for the ship. RULE 1.-DEFINITIONS Steamer. The term "steamer" includes all ships having sufficient means for mechanical propulsion, except where provided with sufficient sail area for navigation under sails alone. A ship fitted with mechanical means of propulsion and with sail area insufficient for navigation under sails alone may be assigned a load line under Part III of these Rules. A lighter, barge or other ship without independent means of propulsion, when towed, is to be assigned a load line under Part III of these Rules. Sailing ship. The term "sailing ship" includes all ships provided with sufficient sail area for navigation under sails alone, whether or not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion. Flush deck ship.-A flush deck ship is one which has no superstructure on the freeboard deck. Superstructure.-A superstructure is a decked structure on the freeboard deck extending from side to side of the ship. A raised quarter deck is considered a superstructure. Freeboard. The freeboard assigned is the distance measured vertically downwards at the side of the ship amidships from the upper edge of the deck line to the upper edge of the load line mark. Freeboard deck.-The freeboard deck is the deck from which the freeboard is measured, and is the uppermost complete deck having permanent means of closing all openings in weather portions of the deck in accordance with Rules 8 to 16. It is the upper deck in flush deck ships and ships with detached superstructures. In ships having discontinuous freeboard decks within superstructures which are not intact, or which are not fitted with Class 1 16156-304 21 |