Sec. 80.831  Survival craft portable radiotelegraph equipment.

    (a) Survival craft portable radiotelegraph equipment required by law 
to be provided must be type accepted by the Commission as capable of 
meeting the provisions of Secs. 80.263 and 80.265.
    (b) The equipment must be stowed in the radio room, bridge or a 
protected location near a lifeboat and be readily accessible for 
transfer to a lifeboat. However, in tankers of 3,000 gross tons and over 
in which lifeboats are fitted amidships and aft, this equipment must be 
kept in a suitable place in the vicinity of those lifeboats which are 
farthest away from the ship's main transmitter.
    (c) Equipment for totally enclosed lifeboats must meet the extra 
requirements specified in Sec. 80.265.