Safety at Sea: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1916, a Bill to Amend Existing Laws So as to Promote Safety at Sea by Requiring the Proper Design, Construction, Maintenance, Inspection, and Operation of Ships; to Give Effect to the Convention for Promoting Safety of Life at Sea, 1929, and Other Purposes ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - Merchant marine - 172 pages

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Page 120 - ... under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the board of supervising inspectors with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce...
Page 120 - ... cargo, fittings, equipment, appliances, propulsive machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers thereof; and with respect to all materials used in such construction...
Page 157 - Secretary") shall establish for the vessels to which this section applies such additional rules and regulations as may be necessary with respect to the design and construction, alteration, repair, and maintenance of such vessels, including...
Page 128 - For the purpose of any such inspection, approved plans and certificates of class of the American Bureau of Shipping or other recognized classification society for classed vessels may be accepted as evidence of the structural efficiency of the hull and the reliability of the machinery of such classed vessels except as far as existing law places definite responsibility on the Coast Guard.
Page 122 - All vessels, regardless of tonnage, size, or manner of propulsion, and whether self-propelled or not, and whether carrying freight or passengers for hire or not, that shall have on board any inflammable or combustible liquid cargo in Bulk...
Page 141 - Board to serve as the watchdog of the merit system; and increase the salaries of key posts throughout the service so that the Government may attract and hold in a career service men and women of the highest ability and character; 4.
Page 157 - ... and with respect to the handling and stowage of such liquid cargo; the manner of such handling or stowage; and the machinery and appliances used in such handling and stowage ; and with respect to equipment and appliances for lifesaving and fire protection ; and with respect to the operation of such vessels...
Page 144 - You may put it into the record. (The document referred to and submitted by the witness is here printed in full as follows...
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Page 89 - It shall have not less than three cubic feet (or 85 cubic decimetres) of • air cases or equivalent buoyancy for each person it is certified to carry.

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