1.

LOAD LINE SURVEY PREPARATION:

1. A visual examination of loadline certificate and all

other certificates to ensure that they are valid and
properly endorsed.
2. General inspections to ensure NO
MODIFICATIONS are carried out to the conditions of
assignment of freeboard.
3. Load line marks are properly placed and painted on the
port and starboard sides.
4. Stability booklet, Loading, and ballasting information
are available on board so as to carry out such operations
without causing excessive stresses.
5. Check that all access openings of enclosed structures
are in good conditions. All dogs, clamps, and hinges to
be free and well greased. All gaskets and watertight seals
should be crack free. Ensure that the doors open from
both sides.
6. Check all cargo hatches and access to holds for weather
tightness.
7. Check the efficiency and securing of portable beams.
8. If portable wooden hatch covers are used check that
they are in good condition
9. If tarpaulins are used at least two should be provided for
each hatch and in good condition.
10. Inspect all machinery space opening on exposed
deck
11. Check that any manholes and flush scuttles are
capable of being made watertight
 12. Check that all ventilator openings are provided with
an efficient weathertight closing appliance
13. All air pipe should be provided with satisfactory
means for closing and opening
14. Inspect any cargo ports below the freeboard deck
and ensure that all of them are watertight
15. Ensure that non-return valves on overboard valves
are operating in a satisfactory manner
16. Side scuttles and openings below the freeboard deck
must have efficient internal watertight deadlights. Check
that all freeing ports are in satisfactory conditions
17. All guard-rails and bulwarks should be
in satisfactory condition
18. Check that all freeing ports are in satisfactory
conditions

2. SUB DIVISION LOADLINES:

In passenger ships sub-division is carried out with
reference to a particular maximum draft called the
subdivision draft and marked by a Subdivision Loadline.
A vessel having spaces, which are specially adapted for
accommodating passengers or cargo alternatively,
may, if desired by the owner, have additional sub
division load line. These load lines are marked by the
letter
In order that the required degree of
subdivision shall be maintained, a
 load line corresponding to the
approved subdivision draught shall
be assigned and marked on the
ship’s sides.
 C1 – principally passenger carriers
 C2 – passengers in tween decks ( alternative passenger /
Cargo)
 C3 – passengers in lower decks carrier. (alternative
Passenger/ Cargo)
 Details of these load lines are recorded in the passenger
ship safety certificate together with the spaces used
alternatively for passenger or cargo.
3. CONDITION OF ASSIGNMENTS:

 Regulation 10 - Information to be supplied to the Master

 Regulation 11 - Superstructure End Bulkheads

 Regulation 12 - Doors

 Regulation 13 - Position of Hatchways, Doorways and Ventilators

 Regulation 14 - Cargo and other Hatchways

 Regulation 15 - Hatchways closed by Portable Covers and secured Weathertight by

Tarpaulins and Battening Devices

 Regulation 16 - Hatchways closed by Weathertight Covers of Steel or other

equivalent material fitted with Gaskets and Clamping Devices

 Regulation 17 - Machinery Space Openings

 Regulation 18 - Miscellaneous Openings in Freeboard and Superstructure Decks

 Regulation 19 - Ventilators

 Regulation 20 - Air Pipes

 Regulation 21 - Cargo Ports and other similar Openings

 Regulation 22 - Scuppers, Inlets and Discharges

 Regulation 23 - Side Scuttles

 Regulation 24 - Freeing Ports

 Regulation 25 - Protection of the Crew

 Regulation 26 - Special Conditions of Assignment for Type 'A' Ships

4. HOW TO ENSURE LESS DECK WETNESS:

(1) Efficient guard rails or bulwarks shall be fitted on all exposed parts of the freeboard and
superstructure decks. The height of the bulwarks or guard rails shall be at least 1 metre (39½
inches) from the deck, provided that where this height would interfere with the normal operation
of the ship, a lesser height may be approved if the Administration is satisfied that adequate
protection is provided.

(2) The opening below the lowest course of the guard rails shall not exceed 230 millimetres (9
inches). The other courses shall be not more than 380 millimetres (15 inches) apart. In the case
of ships with rounded gunwales the guard rail supports shall be placed on the flat of the deck.
 (3) Satisfactory means (in the form of guard rails, life lines, gangways or underdeck passages
etc.) shall be provided for the protection of the crew in getting to and from their quarters, the
machinery space and all other parts used in the necessary work of the ship.

5. LL 1966 TYPE (B-60) ,TYPE (B-100) VESSEL:

"B60" or "B100" load line on a vessel refers to
a specific type of load line marking indicating
a reduced freeboard assigned to a ship
classified as a "B" type vessel, meaning it has
certain improved design features that allow
for a shallower draft compared to a standard
"A" type ship; "B60" signifies reduction,
allowing the vessel to load deeper in suitable
conditions.
If the ship to which freeboard is to be assigned
were 140 m in length the tabular freeboards
would be: Type ‘B’ 2109 mm Type ‘A’ 1803 mm
Difference 306 mm = X in figure 26.13. Fig. 26.13
If a type ‘B’ ship has a certain improved standard
of subdivision and steel hatch covers it may
qualify for a reduction in the tabular freeboard of
60% the difference between the type ‘A’ and type
‘B’ freeboards, hence, the term ‘B-60’. Tabular
Freeboard assigned = 2109 - (0.6 X 306) = 1925
mm. Further improvement in design might qualify
the type ‘B’ ship a reduction of the full amount of
the difference - ‘B-100’. Tabular Freeboard
assigned = 2109 - (1 X 306) = 1803 mm. (It can be
seen that type ‘A’ and type ‘B-100’ tabular
freeboards are the same!)
26.6.2 Additional conditions of assignment for type ‘B-60’
freeboard (Regulation 27) The following additional conditions
must be satisfied:
(1) Ship must be over 100 m in length.
(2) measures must be provided for the protection of the crew
on exposed decks must be adequate (such as the fitting of a
raised catwalk or underdeck walkways along each side of the
hull).
(3) arrangements for freeing water off the deck must be
adequate (railings instead of bulwarks may have to be fitted).
(4) hatch covers in positions 1 and 2 must be of steel and
have adequate strength, special care being given to their
sealing and securing arrangements.
(5) the ship, when loaded in accordance with the initial
condition of loading, shall be able to withstand the flooding
of any compartment or compartments, with an assumed
permeability of 0.95, consequent upon the damage
assumptions specified and shall remain afloat in a
satisfactory condition of equilibrium. If the ship is over 150 m
in length, the machinery space may be treated as a floodable
compartment with a permeability of 0.85.
26.6.3 Additional conditions of assignment for type ‘B-100’
freeboard (Regulation 27) The following additional conditions
must be satisfied:
(1) All the special conditions of assignment applicable to type
‘A’ ships (as per section 26.4.2);
(2) All the additional conditions applicable to the assignment
of ‘B-60’ freeboards in the previous sub-section - 26.6.2.
(3) the ship, when loaded in accordance with the initial
condition of loading, shall be able to withstand the
simultaneous flooding of any two adjacent fore and aft
compartments (not including the machinery space) with an
assumed permeability of 0.95, consequent upon the damage
assumptions specified and shall remain afloat in a
satisfactory condition of equilibrium. If the ship is over 150 m
in length, the machinery space may be treated as one of the
floodable compartments with a permeability of 0.85.

6. WHAT IS A NEW SHIP AS PER ANY

CONVENTION?
A "new ship," according to the International Convention on
Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1994, means a ship whose
keel is laid, or which is at a similar stage of construction,
on or after the date of the convention's entry into force,
which was July 18, 1982.
Same applies for other Conventions.
WHAT IS THE DATE OF KEEL LAID
CALLED?
The date when a ship's keel is laid, or when the first
module or section of the hull is placed, is called the
keel-laying date or sometimes "keel authentication".

7. FACTOR OF SUBDIVISION:
"Factor of Subdivision" is a numerical value used to
determine the maximum permissible length of a
compartment in a ship, ensuring that the ship remains
seaworthy even if one or more compartments flood
Maximum Permissible Length= Floodable Length X
Factor of Subdivision