---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 108.575"
title: "46"
number: "108.575"
heading: "Survival craft and rescue boat equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/108.575"
---

# §108.575. Survival craft and rescue boat equipment.

- (a) All lifeboat and rescue boat equipment must be as follows:
  - (1) The equipment must be secured within the boat by lashings, storage in lockers, or compartments, storage in brackets or similar mounting arrangements or other suitable means.
  - (2) The equipment must be secured in such a manner as not to interfere with any abandonment procedures or reduce seating capacity.
  - (3) The equipment must be as small and of as little mass as possible.
  - (4) The equipment must be packed in a suitable and compact form.
  - (5) **The equipment should be stowed so the items do not—**
    - (i) Reduce the seating capacity;
    - (ii) Adversely affect the seaworthiness of the survival craft or rescue boat; or
    - (iii) **Overload the launching appliance.**
- (b) Each lifeboat, rigid liferaft, and rescue boat, unless otherwise stated in this paragraph, must carry the equipment specified for it in table [§ 108.575(b)](#b) of this section. A lifeboat that is also a rescue boat must carry the equipment in the table column marked for a lifeboat. Each item in the table has the same description as in [§ 199.175](/cfr/46/199.175.md) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25291, May 20, 1996, as amended at 63 FR 52814, Oct. 1, 1998]

### 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, as amended at 63 FR 52814, Oct. 1, 1998]