Type 'A' Ships
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Assembly - IMO Resolution A.320(IX) – Regulation Equivalent to Regulation 27 of the International Convention on Load Lines,1966 – (Adopted on 12 November 1975)Amended by Resolution A.514(13) - Annex - Regulation Equivalent to Regulation 27 of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 - Type 'A' Ships

Type 'A' Ships

  (2) A Type 'A' ship is one which:

  • (a) is designed to carry only liquid cargoes in bulk;

  • (b) has a high integrity of the exposed deck with only small access openings to cargo compartments, closed by watertight gasketed covers of steel or equivalent material; and

  • (c) has low permeability of loaded cargo compartments.

  (3) A Type 'A' ship, if over 150 metres (492 feet) in length to which a freeboard less than Type 'B' has been assigned, when loaded to its summer load water-line, shall be able to withstand the flooding of any compartment or compartments, with an assumed permeability of 0.95, consequent upon the damage assumptions specified in paragraph (12) of this Regulation, and shall remain afloat in a satisfactory condition of equilibrium as specified in paragraph (13) of this Regulation. In such a ship, the machinery space shall be treated as a floodable compartment, but with a permeability of 0.85.

  (4) A Type 'A' ship shall be assigned a freeboard not less than that based on Table A of Regulation 28.

Parent topic: Annex - Regulation Equivalent to Regulation 27 of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966
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