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Anchors chain cables and windlasses are to be examined and checked.

Lengths of chain cables worn out more than 12% from their nominal diameter
are to be renewed.
The engine room structure is to be examined. Particular attention is to be
given to tank tops, brackets connecting side, shell frames, tank tops and
engine room bulkheads in way of tank top and bilge wells. Where wastage is
evident or suspected, thickness measurements are to be carried out.
B. Examination of tanks
The seawater ballast tanks are to be examined at the Surveyors discretion.

For seawater ballast spaces other than double bottom tanks, where a
protective coating is found in poor condition and is not renewed, where soft
coating has been applied or where a protective coating was not applied from
the time of construction, maintenance of class is to be subject to the tanks in
question being internally examined and thickness measurement carried out
as deemed necessary at annual intervals.
For seawater ballast double bottom tanks, where breakdown of coating is
found, where a soft coating has been applied or where a coating has not been
applied from the time of construction, maintenance of class may be subject
to the tanks in question being internally examined at annual intervals.
Fuel oil, lubricating oil and feed water tanks need not be emptied if their
tightness can be verified by an external examination while they are
completely filled and there is no reason for doubt as to their proper condition.
C. Tightness tests
Each compartment of the double bottom and all tanks, the boundary
bulkheads of which form part of the main structure of the ship, are to be
subjected to a pressure test. Fuel, lubricating oil and feed water tanks may be
tested by filling with the respective liquid.
The applied test pressure is to correspond to a head of water up to the top of
the hatch for cargo tanks or up to the top of the overflow/air pipe of the tank,
whichever is higher.
The tightness of pipe tunnels outside the inner bottom and of void spaces can
be tested by air pressure. Testing of other spaces by air pressure is to be
agreed with the Surveyor in each particular case.
D. Holds and other spaces
Holds, tweendecks, void spaces, cofferdams and other spaces which are
integral to the ships structure are to be internally examined.
Plating under bilge wells in holds and engine room is to be examined.

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