THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 15, 1936.
Machinery and Bunker Spaces.
9. Every ship of Class A shall be provided with apparatus whereby at least two powerful jets of water can be rapidly and simultaneously directed into any part of the coal bunker spaces, boiler rooms and machinery spaces.
10. Every ship of Class A in which the main boilers are coal fired shall be provided with at least two approved portable fluid fire extinguishers in each of the boiler rooms and machinery spaces.
11.-(1) Every ship of Class A in which the main boilers are oil fired shall be provided with :---
(a) Conductors ir spraying water on oil without undue disturbance of the suri..ce.
(b) A receptacle containing at least 10 cubic feet of sand, sawdust impregnated with soda, or other approved dry materials in each firing space and scoops for distributing such material.
(c) Two approved portable extinguishers, constructed to discharge froth or other approved medium suitable for quench- ing oil fires, in each boiler room and in each of the machinery spaces in which a part of the oil fuel installation is situated.
(d) Approved apparatus whereby froth can be rapidly dis- charged and distributed over the whole of the lower part of the boiler room or of any one boiler room, if there is more than one, or of any machinery space in which oil fuel units, or settling tanks are situated. The quantity of froth which can be discharged shall be sufficient to cover to a depth of 6 inches the whole area of the plating formed in any one compartment by the inner bottom plating, or by the shell plating of the vessel if there is no double bottom tank. If the engine and boiler rooms are not entirely separate and fuel oil can drain from the boiler room bilges into the engine room, the com- bined engine and boiler rooms shall be considered as one com- partment. The apparatus shall be controlled from outside the compartments into which it is required to discharge froth.
(e) One approved extinguisher, constructed to discharge. froth, of at least 30 gallons capacity in the case of ships having one boiler room, and two such extinguishers in the case of ships with more than one boiler room. These extinguishers shall be provided with hoses on reels suitable for reaching any part of the boiler rooms and spaces containing oil fuel units.
(2) All containers and the valves by which such con- tainers are operated shall be easily accessible and so placed that they will not readily be cut off from use by an outbreak of fire.
12.- -(1) Every motor ship of Class A shall comply with the requirements of sub-paragraph (a) of Regulation 11 (1) and shall be provided in each of the machinery spaces with at least one approved 10-gallon extinguisher constructed to discharge froth and also with one approved two-gallon extinguisher constructed to discharge froth for each 1,000 B.H.P. of the engines or part thereof, so however that the total number of two-gallon extinguishers so provided shall not be less than two and need not exceed six.
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