Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Ships with submerged load-lines deemed unsafe.

439.[1] If a ship is so loaded as to submerge in salt water the centre of the disc indicating the load-line, the ship shall be deemed to be an unsafe ship within the meaning of the provisions hereafter contained in this Part of this Act, and such submersion shall be a reasonable and probable cause for the detention of the ship.

[1 See note [1], p. 588. This section is further extended by 6 Edw. 7. c. 48. s. 8.]