---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.555"
title: "46"
number: "108.555"
heading: "Lifeboat launching and recovery arrangements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.555"
---

# §108.555. Lifeboat launching and recovery arrangements.


Lifeboat launching and recovery arrangements, in addition to meeting the requirements in §§ [108.550](/cfr/46/108.550.md) and [108.553](/cfr/46/108.553.md), must meet the following requirements:

- (a) Each lifeboat must be capable of being launched with the unit making headway of 5 knots in calm water, or with the unit anchored or bearing on the bottom in a current of up to 5 knots. A painter may be used to meet this requirement.
- (b) Each lifeboat must be provided with a launching appliance. The launching appliance must be capable of launching and recovering the lifeboat with its crew.
- (c) Each launching appliance arrangement must allow the operator on the unit to observe the lifeboat at all times during recovery.
- (d) Each launching appliance arrangement must be designed to ensure persons can safely disembark from the survival craft prior its stowage.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996; 61 FR 40281, Aug. 1, 1996]

### Source

Source: CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3102, 3306; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 73-251, 43 FR 56808, Dec. 4, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996; 61 FR 40281, Aug. 1, 1996]