Merchant Shipping Act, 1951 (Act No. 57 of 1951)

Schedules

Second Schedule

Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974

Annex

Chapter VI : Carriage of Grain

Part B — Calculation of Assumed Heeling Moments

Section IV — Assumed Volumetric Heeling Moment of Partly Filled Compartments
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(A)        GENERAL

When the free surface of the bulk grain has not been secured in accordance with Regulation 6 of this Chapter it shall be assumed that the grain surface after shifting shall be at 25 degrees to the horizontal.

 

(B)        DISCONTINUOUS LONGITUDINAL DIVISIONS

In a compartment in which the longitudinal divisions are not continuous between the transverse boundaries, the length over which any such divisions are effective as devices to prevent full width shifts of grain surfaces shall be taken to be the actual length of the portion of the division under consideration less two-sevenths of the greater of the transverse distances between the division and its adjacent division or ship’s side.

 

This correction does not apply in the lower compartments of any combination loading in which the upper compartment is either a “filled compartment” or a “partly filled compartment”.