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2344 INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION. JULY 5, 1930. An:-. p. 2324 . The Winter North Atlantic Timber freeboards are the Winter North Part \' I. Load lines for tankers. "Tanker" defined. Marks on ship's sides. Ante, p. 238& Assignment for deep- er landing, supplemen- tary. Ship construction. Forecastle. Atlantic freeboards prescribed in Rule LXV. The Tropical Timber freeboard is to be obtained by deducting from the Summer Timber freeboard one-quarter of an inch per foot of the moulded Summer Timber draught. Part VI. -Load Lines for Tankers. Definition. Tanker. -The term "tanker" includes all steamers specially constructed for the carriage of liquid cargoes in bulk. Rule XCII. -Marks on the Ship's Sides. The marks on the ship's sides are to be as provided in the figure in Rule IV. Supplementary Oonditions oj Assignment jor Deeper Loading. Rule XCIII. -Oonstruction oj Ship. The structure of the ship is to be of sufficient strength for the increased draught corresponding to the freeboard assigned. Rule XCIV.- Forecastle. The ship is to have a. forecastle of which the length is not less than 7 per cent. of the length of the ship and the height is not less than the standard height. Rule XCV. -Machinery Oasings. Machinery casings. The openings in machinery casings on the freeboard deck are to be fitted with steel doors. The casings are to be protected by an enclosed poop or bridge of at least standard height, or by a deck house of equal height and of equivalent strength. The bulkheads at the ends of these structures are to be of the scantlings required for bridge front bulkheads. All entrances to the structures from the freeboard deck are to be fitted with effective closing appliances and the sills are to be at least 18 inches above the deck. Exposed ma- chinery casings on the superstructure deck are to be of substantial construction, and all openings in them are to be fitted with steel closing appliances permanently attached to the casings and capable of being closed and secured from both sides; the sills of such openings are to be at least 15 inches above the deck. Fiddley openings are to