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  1. Title 46 —Shipping
  2. Chapter I —Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security
  3. Subchapter G —Documentation and Measurement of Vessels
  4. Part 69 —Measurement of Vessels
  5. Subpart D —Dual Regulatory Measurements System
  6. § 69.183
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§ 69.183 Figures.

(a) Tonnage mark with an equilateral triangle and a line for fresh and tropical waters.

W= 1⁄48 of the distance from the top of the flat keel to the tonnage mark. (See § 69.177(b)(2).)

(b) Tonnage mark location if the load line mark is not placed as though the second deck were the freeboard deck.

k = a distance between 21 inches and six feet six inches.

a = distance derived from Table 69.177(a)(5).

(c) —Tonnage mark location if the load line mark is placed as though the second deck were the freeboard deck.

k = a distance between 21 inches and six feet six inches.

a = the distance between the line of the second deck and the uppermost part of the load line grid.

[CGD 87-015b, 54 FR 37657, Sept. 12, 1989, as amended by USCG-2011-0522, 81 FR 18732, Mar. 31, 2016]

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