The Merchant Shipping (Load Line) Regulations 1998

Timber load lines

19.—(1) Timber load lines shall consist of horizontal lines of the dimensions specified in respect of such lines in regulation 18(2), extending abaft or forward of a vertical line 25 millimetres in width and marked 540 millimetres abaft the center of the ring of the load line mark and at right angles to that line as shown in Figure 4 and individual Timber load lines shall be as follows—

(a) the Summer Timber load line, which shall extend abaft the said vertical line and be marked LS;

(b) the Winter Timber load line, which shall extend abaft the vertical line and be marked LW;

(c) the Winter North Atlantic Timber load line, which shall extend abaft the vertical line and be marked LWNA;

(d) the Tropical Timber load line, which shall extend forward of the vertical line and be marked LT;

(e) the Fresh Water Timber load line, which shall extend forward of the vertical line and be marked LF; and

(f) the Tropical Fresh Water Timber load line, which shall extend forward of the vertical line and be marked LTF.

(2) The maximum depth to which a ship may be loaded in relation to a Timber load shall be the depth indicated by the upper edge of the appropriate Timber load line.