Guidelines for Lifeboats and Rescue Boats

Lifeboats and rescue boats are not part of the Classification of the ship carrying these boats by Germanischer Lloyd (GL). These boats will be treated completely independent from the ship and therefore a separate application for the Certification or Classification of lifeboats or rescue boats has to be presented to GL, compare Section 2.

Thus these requirements for lifeboats and rescue boats are a Guideline of Germanischer Lloyd.

These Guidelines cover the Certification of lifeboats by GL as a notified body according to the Marine Equipment Directive 96/98/EC (MED) of the European Communities for following types of lifeboats

Rescue boats
In addition the Certification of rescue boats according to MED is covered by these Guidelines for the following types of rescue boats: