Height of
crow accom- modation.
Construction of bulk- bends and panelling
(4) The sum of the unobstructed horizontal distances with three times the vertical distances involved in travelling from any radio officer's sleeping room to the radio office shall not exceed fifty yards.
6. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply the height of the crew accommodation measured from the top of the floor beam to the top of the crown beams shall be not less than the following-
In ships of under 1,600 tons
7 feel
In ships of 1.600 tons or over
7 feet 6 inches.
(2) Every sleeping room forming part of the crew accommodation in a ship to which these regulations apply shall be so constructed as to provide a clear headroom of at least six feet three inches at every point in the room which is available for free movement.
(3) The Director may exempt from any of the requirements contained-
(a) in paragraph (1)—
(i) any ship, in respect of store rooms and sanitary accom- modation;
(ii) any river steamer, to the extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is unreasonable or impracticable in the circumstances, and
(b) in paragraph (2), any ship of under five hundred tons to be extent that he is satisfied that compliance therewith is un- reasonable or impracticable in the circumstances.
T. (1) In every ship to which these regulations apply all bulk- heads enclosing or within any part of the crew accommodation shall be properly constructed of metal or other suitable material; and where any bulkhead is exposed to the weather it shall be of watertight and gastigh construction, and means of closure shall be provided for all openings in such bulkhead so as to enable it to be made weathertight..
(2) Any bulkhead which separates any part of the crew accom- modation (other than a recreation deck space) from a space used as--
(a) a permanent coal bunker,
(b) an oil fuel bunker,
(c) a cargo or machinery space.
(d) a lamp room or paint room.
(e) a store room not forming part of the crew accommodation,
(a dry provision store,
(g) a chain locker, or
(/) a cofferdam.
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shall be gastight, and shall be watertight where necessary to protect the crew accommodation.
(3) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (5) of regulation 28 any bulkhead which separates any part of the crew accommodation from sanitary accommodation or from a laundry or drying room, galley or cold store room (whether or not such sanitary accommodation, laundry, drying room, galley or cold store room forms part of the crew accommo- dation) shall be gastight, and shall be watertight to such height as may be necessary to prevent the passage of water into the adjoining space, and, in particular, any bulkhead separating sanitary accommodation from any other part of the crew accommodation shall, except in a door- way, be watertight to a height of at least nine inches above the floor of such sanitary accommodation:
Provided that the requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to bulkheads separating-
(a) sanitary commodation from other sanitary accommodation: (b) a laundry or drying room from another laundry or drying
room:
(c) a galley from another galley or a pantry:
(d) a cold store room from another cold store room; or
(e) sanitary accommodation appropriated for the sole use of one person from a sleeping room from which it may be directly entered.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a solid close fitting door shall be regarded as gastight.
(5) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (7), any inside panelling used in the construction of crew accommodation shall be of plywood of thickness not less than three-cighths of an inch or of some other suitable material having a surface which can easily be kept clean; and neither bulkheads nor inside panelling shall be constructed of tongued and grooved boarding or in a manner or of material likely to harbour vermin.
(6) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (7) and to the provisions of any regulations for the time being applicable to the Colony governing the construction of passenger ships, plywood of a thickness not less than three quarters of an inch shall be accepted as suitable material for the construction of internal bulkheads in crew accommodation, including store rooms forming part of such accommodation, except for-
(a) any bounding bulkhead to a galley, sanitary accommodation and provision store room adjoining any part of the crew accom- modation used for living purposes, which shall be constructed of metal; and
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