Contents of SOLAS Chapter V

Safety of Navigation

• This chapter is applicable in general to all ships on all voyages, it includes passage planning, distress signal, navigation etc. 

• This chapter makes mandatory carriage of Voyage Data Recorder (VDR) and Automatic Ship Identification System (AIS). 

Regulation 1 - Application

Regulation 2 - Definitions

Regulation 3 - Exemptions and equivalents

Regulation 4 - Navigational warnings

Regulation 5 - Meteorological services and warnings

Regulation 6 - Ice Patrol services

Regulation 7 - Search and Rescue services 

Regulation 8 - Life-saving signals

Regulation 9 - Hydrographic services

Regulation 10 - Ship's routing

Regulation 11 - Ship reporting systems

Regulation 12 - Vessel traffic services

Regulation 13 - Establishment and operation of aids to navigation

Regulation 14 - Ship's manning

Regulation 15 - Principles relating to bridge design, design and arrangement of navigational systems and equipment and bridge procedures

Regulation 16 - Maintenance of equipment

Regulation 17 - Electromagnetic compatibility

Regulation 18 - Approval, surveys and performance standards of navigational systems and equipment and voyage data recorder

Regulation 19 - Carriage requirements for shipborne navigational systems and equipment

Regulation 19-1 - Long-range identification and tracking of ships

Regulation 20 - Voyage data recorders      

Regulation 21 - International code of signals and IAMSAR Manual

Regulation 22 - Navigational bridge visibility

Regulation 23 - Pilot transfer arrangements

Regulation 24 - Use of heading and/or track control systems

Regulation 25 - Operation of Steering Gear

Regulation 26 - Steering gear: testing and drills

Regulation 27 - Nautical charts and nautical publications

Regulation 28 - Records of navigational activities and daily reporting 

Regulation 29 - Life-saving signals to be used by ships, aircraft or persons in distress 

Regulation 30 - Operational limitations

Regulation 31 - Danger messages

Regulation 32 - Information required in danger messages

Regulation 33 - Distress situations: obligations and procedures

Regulation 34 - Safe navigation and avoidance of dangerous situations

Regulation 34-1 - Master's discretion

Regulation 35 - Misuse of distress signals

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Reference: IMO Publications & Documents - International Conventions - SOLAS