Merchant Shipping Act, 1966
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Extension of duty to report dangers to navigation. |
17.—The matters of which information is to be sent by the master of a ship in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Distress and Urgency Signals and Danger Warning) Rules, 1936 , and section 35 of the Act of 1952 shall include— | |
(a) air temperatures below freezing point associated with gale force winds causing severe ice accretion on the superstructure of ships; and | ||
(b) winds of force 10 or above on the Beaufort Scale for which no storm warning has been received. |