Navigation Safety Regulations (SOR/2005-134)

50. A ship shall be fitted with a speed-and-distance measuring device, or other means, that can be used to indicate speed and distance travelled through the water if

• (a) it is of 150 tons or more, carrying more than 12 passengers and engaged on an international voyage; or

• (b) it is of 300 tons or more and engaged on an international voyage or a voyage that is not a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage.

51. A ship shall be fitted with a properly adjusted transmitting heading device, or other means, that can be used to transmit heading information for input to the equipment referred to in sections 48, 49 and 65 if

• (a) it is of 150 tons or more but less than 500 tons, carrying more than 12 passengers and engaged on an international voyage; or

• (b) it is of 300 tons or more but less than 500 tons.

• 52. (1) Every ship of 500 tons or more that is engaged on an international voyage or a voyage that is not a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage shall be fitted with

  • (a) a gyro-compass, or other means, that can be used to determine and display its heading by shipborne non-magnetic means and to transmit heading information for input to the equipment referred in sections 48, 54 and 65; and

  • (b) a gyro-compass heading repeater, or other means, that can be used to visually supply heading information at the emergency steering position, if applicable.

• (2) Every ship of 500 tons or more that is engaged on an international voyage or a voyage other than a home-trade voyage, Class IV, or a minor waters voyage shall be fitted with a gyro-compass bearing repeater, or other means, that can be used to take bearings over an arc of the horizon of 360º, using the gyro-compass or other means referred to in paragraph (1)(a). However, if the ship is of less than 1600 tons, it shall be fitted with a gyro-compass bearing repeater, or other means, placed so that bearings can be taken over an arc of the horizon as close as feasible to 360º.

53. Every ship of 500 tons or more shall be fitted with rudder, propeller, thrust, pitch and operational mode indicators, or other means, that can be used to determine and display the rudder angle, propeller revolutions, the force and direction of thrust and, if applicable, the force and direction of lateral thrust and the pitch and operational mode of the propellers. All of that information shall be readable from the conning position.

54. Every ship of 500 tons or more shall be fitted with an automatic tracking aid, or other means, that can be used to automatically plot the range and bearing of targets in order to determine collision risk.

55. Every ship of 500 tons or more that is engaged on a foreign voyage or a home-trade voyage, Class I, II or III, shall be fitted with a daylight signalling lamp, or other means, that can be used to communicate by light signals during the day and the night using a source of electrical power not solely dependent on the ship’s power supply.

56. On every ship of 500 tons or more, the failure of one piece of equipment shall not reduce the capability of the ship to meet the requirements of sections 38 and 39.