The principal conditions that must be satisfied before freeboard may be assigned to any ship take account of the following:
- structural strength of the ship;
- preservation of reserve buoyancy;
- physical means of preventing entry of water into the hull;
- safety of the crew on the weather deck;
- potential wetness of the weather deck;
- stability in the normal loaded condition (intact stability);
- degree of subdivision and stability after suffering prescribed damage.
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