Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying TIMBER DECK CARGOES, 1991 Preface Upon instruction by the Maritime safety Committee (MSC) the Sub-Committee on Containers and Cargoes developed the first Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes in the early 1970s. The Code was approved by the MSC at its twenty-fifth session (March 1972) and adopted by the assembly at its twenty-eighth regular session (November 1973) by resolution A.287(VIII). The Assembly recommended that Governments implement the Code and authorized the MSC to keep the Code up to date by adopting such amendments as might be necessary. Recognizing the need to improve the provisions contained in the code in light of the experience gained, the Sub-Committee on Containers and Cargoes subsequently revised the Code. The MSC approved the revised Code at its fifty-eighth session (May 1990) and the Assembly, at its seventeenth regular session (November 1991) adopted it by resolution A.717(17), which revoked resolution A.287(VIII). The revised Code is contained in the present edition. Any amendments or further revisions which may be made will be included in subsequent editions of this Code. Contents Foreword Chapter 1 - General Chapter 2 - Stability Chapter 3 - Stowage Chapter 4 - Securing Chapter 5 - Personnel protection and safety devices Chapter 6 - Action to be taken during the voyage Appendix A - Advice on stowage practices Appendix B - General guidelines for the under-deck stowage of logs Appendix C - Recommendation on intact stability for passenger and cargo ships under 100 m in length, as amended, with respect to ships carrying deck cargoes Appendix 1 - Calculation of stability curves Appendix 2 - Standard conditions of loading to be examined Appendix 3 - Memorandum to Administrations on an approximate determination of ship's stability by means of the rolling period tests (for ships up to 70 m in length) Annex to appendix 3 - Suggested form of guidance to the master on an approximate determination of ship's stability by means of the rolling period test Appendix D - Text of regulation 44 of the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 Resolution A.715(17) – adopted on 6 November 1991