20Marking of Ships

20 Marking of Ships

(1) Subject to this regulation, a ship must, for the purposes of section 26 of the Act, be marked as follows:

(a) the name of the ship must be inscribed, in accordance with subregulation (2), on each bow;

(b) the names of the ship and its home port must be inscribed, in accordance with subregulation (2):

(i) on the stern; or

(ii) if the configuration of the stern is such that those names cannot be legibly displayed on the stern, on each side of the hull as near as practicable to the stern; or

(iii) if compliance with subparagraph (i) or (ii) is not practicable — on such other part or parts of the ship as the Registrar permits;

(c) an inscription in accordance with subregulation (3) must be made, in a position in which it may readily be inspected, on the main beam of the ship or, if the ship has no main beam or it is impracticable so to make the inscription on the main beam, on another main structural member or integral part of the ship.

(2) The inscriptions referred to in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) must be made in the following manner:

(a) all alphabetical characters must be in the form of:

(i) upright sans serif block capital letters, not being expanded or condensed forms of those letters, the height of which is not less than 100 millimetres and the thickness of the strokes of which is not less than 20%, and not more than 25%, of their height; or

(ii) lettering approved, either generally or in a particular case, by the Registrar, being lettering that is not less legible than lettering of the kind referred to in subparagraph (i);

(b) all numerals, whether Arabic or Roman, must be in a style matching that of the alphabetical characters;

(c) the inscription must be applied in waterproof paint of a colour that makes a distinct contrast with the colour of the background on which it appears.

(3) The inscription referred to in paragraph (1) (c) must comprise:

(a) the letters ‘O.N.’ followed by the official number of the ship; and

(b) either:

(i) the letters ‘N.T.’ followed by the net tonnage of the ship as shown on its tonnage certificate; or

(ii) if the ship is not a ship to which subsection 16 (1) of the Act applies — the letters ‘L.O.A.’ followed by the length of the ship in metres taken to 2 decimal places;

being letters and figures:

(c) that:

(i) are incised into the surface of the portion of the ship to which they are applied; or

(ii) form part of the fabric of that portion of the ship and project from the surrounding surface of that portion of the ship; and