---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 199.120"
title: "46"
number: "199.120"
heading: "Launching stations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/199.120"
---

# §199.120. Launching stations.

- (a) Each launching station must be positioned to ensure safe launching with clearance from the propeller and from the steeply overhanging portions of the hull.
- (b) Each survival craft must be launched down the straight side of the vessel, except for free-fall launched survival craft.
- (c) **Each launching station in the forward part of the vessel must—**
  - (1) Be in a sheltered position that is located aft of the collision bulkhead; and
  - (2) Have a launching appliance approved with an endorsement as being of sufficient strength for forward installation.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703; Pub. L. 103-206, 107 Stat. 2439; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 84-069, 61 FR 25313, May 20, 1996, unless otherwise noted.