HC Deb 24 June 1942 vol 380 cc1999-2000W
Mr. Dobbie

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport the proportion of ocean-going ships that have the increased supplies of water and food for the life-saving equipment of their boats and rafts called for in the regulations issued in July, 1941; whether these regulations have been made obligatory in accordance with the notification then given to shipowners; what steps have been taken to equip all lifeboats and rafts with an apparatus for the distilling of sea water; and what steps are being taken to supplement the provision of the wireless-transmitting set suitable to be used in lifeboats and rafts?

Mr. Noel-Baker

Reports received from Ministry surveyors indicate that the increased food and water requirements referred to in my hon. Friend's Question are now generally complied with by ships leaving ports in this country. All possible steps are being taken to make these or similar adequate arrangements in ships

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which do not come to the United Kingdom. The requirements will shortly be given legal effect under new rules now being drawn up. These rules will consolidate and improve upon previous wartime rules and requirements. The scientific experiments now in progress for the distillation of sea-water have not yet produced an apparatus suitable for use in a life-boat at sea, but this work is being actively pursued. Existing rules require that the other necessary equipment for the portable wireless transmitter, which has its own aerial and earth, shall be carried in each of two lifeboats, one on the port and the other on the starboard side of the ship.