Section 418
Particulars relating to sailing vessel to be painted.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
The owner of every sailing vessel so
registered shall, before the vessel begins to take any cargo or passengers, paint or cause to be painted
permanently in the prescribed manner on some conspicuous part of the sailing vessel, the name by
which the vessel has been registered, the number assigned to the vessel by the registrar and the port to
which she belongs, and shall take all steps to ensure that the vessel remains painted as required by this
section.