International Convention for the Safety of Life

In the same year, the ship departed Southampton for its maiden voyage, bound for New York, and on the night of April 14, it struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland (41°46′N, 50°14′W) and sank the next day, killing 1,490 people (some say 1,513). In response to this, the world's largest maritime disaster, the British government established a Marine Accident Inquiry Commission under the Merchant Shipping Act, and the contents of the commission's report were incorporated into the international law known as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (also known as the SOLAS Convention) in 1929. Its main provisions included monitoring and reporting of drift ice in the North Atlantic, strengthening ship structures, regulations on stability, watertight compartments, and openings, improving life-saving and fire-fighting equipment, improving radiotelegraph facilities, and requiring 24-hour listening to distress calls (SOS). The convention has been amended since then and continues to this day.

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…同年，処女航海の途につくためサザンプトンを出港，ニューヨークに向かう途中，4月14日夜ニューファンドランド島沖(北緯41゜46′，西経50゜14′)で氷山に衝突して翌日沈没，1490名(1513名ともいわれている)の犠牲者を出した。この世界最大の海難事故に対し，イギリス政府は商船法に基づき海難審判委員会を発足，この委員会の報告書の内容は，29年に〈海上における人命の安全のための国際条約International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea〉(〈海上人命安全条約〉〈SOLAS条約〉ともいう)という国際的な法律の中に生かされた。そのおもなものは，北大西洋における流氷の監視と通報，船舶の構造強化，復原性･水密区画･開口部に対する規制，救命および消火設備の充実，無線電信施設の充実，救難通信(SOS)の24時間聴取の義務づけなどで，その後もこの条約は改正されつつ現在に至っている。…

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