Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1965/1106 |
| Year | 1965 |
1965 No. 1106
MERCHANT SHIPPING
SAFETY
The Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules 196511thMay 1965
21stMay 1965
26thMay 1965
ARRANGEMENT OF RULES
PART I—PRELIMINARY
Rule
Interpretation and Repeal 1
Classification of ships 2
PART II—PASSENGER STEAMERS
Class I Passenger steamers engaged on voyages (not being short
international voyages) any of which are long inter-
national voyages 3–11
Fire patrol, Alarm and Detection systems 3
Fire pumps, Fire main, Water service pipes
Hydrants, Hoses and Nozzles 4
Portable fire extinguishers in Accommodation and
Service spaces 5
Fixed fire smothering arrangements in Cargo spaces 6
Machinery spaces containing Oil-fired boilers or oil
burning equipment 7
Machinery spaces containing Internal Combustion type
machinery 8
Machinery spaces containing Steam engines 9
Firemen's outfits 10
International shore connection 11
Class II Passenger steamers engaged on voyages (not being long
international voyages) any of which are short inter-
national voyages 12
Class II(A) Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class II(A)" 13–17
Ships of 70 feet in length or over 13
Ships of less than 70 feet in length
Fire pumps, Fire main, Water service pipes
Hydrants, Hoses and Nozzles 14
Portable fire extinguishers 15
Machinery spaces containing Oil-fired boilers or
oil burning equipment 16
Machinery spaces containing Internal Combustion
type machinery 17
Class III Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class III" 18–22
Ships of 70 feet in length or over
Fire pumps, Fire main, Water service pipes
Hydrants, Hoses and Nozzles 18
Portable fire extinguishers 19
Machinery spaces containing Oil-fired boilers or
oil burning equipment 20
Machinery spaces containing Internal Combustion
type machinery 21
Firemen's outfits 22
Ships of less than 70 feet in length 23
Class IV Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class IV" 24–25
Ships of 70 feet in length or over 24
Ships of less than 70 feet in length 25
Class V Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class V" 26–27
Fully decked ships 26
Ships not fully decked 27
Class VI Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class VI" 28–29
Fully decked ships 28
Ships not fully decked 29
Class VI(A) Passenger steamers in respect of which there is or
should be in force a passenger steamer's certificate
entitled
"Passenger Certificate Class VI(A)" 28–29
Fully decked ships 28
Ships not fully decked 29
PART III—SHIPS OTHER THAN PASSENGER STEAMERS
Class VII Steamers and other ships engaged on voyages any of
which are long international voyages 30–38
Ships of 500 tons or over
Fire pumps, Fire main, Water service pipes
Hydrants, Hoses and Nozzles 30
Portable fire extinguishers 31
Fixed fire smothering arrangements in Cargo spaces 32
Machinery spaces containing Oil-fired boilers or
oil burning equipment 33
Machinery spaces containing Internal Combustion
type machinery 34
Machinery spaces containing Steam engines 35
Firemen's outfits 36
International shore connection 37
Ships of under 500 tons 38
Class VII(A) Steamers engaged in the whaling, fish processing or
canning industries 39
Class VIII Steamers and other ships engaged on voyages (not
being long international voyages) any of which are
short international voyages 40–43
Ships of 1,000 tons or over 40
Ships of 500 tons or over but under 1,000 tons 41
Ships of 150 tons or over but under 500 tons 42
Ships of under 150 tons 43
Class VIII(A) Steamers and other ships engaged only on voyages
which are not international voyages 44
Class IX Tugs and tenders which proceed to sea but are not
engaged on long international voyages 44
Class IX(A) Steamers and other ships which do not proceed to sea 44
Class X Fishing boats 45–49
Ships of 1,000 tons or over 45
Ships of 500 tons or over but under 1,000 tons 46
Ships of 150 tons or over but under 500 tons 47
Ships of under 150 tons 48
Exemptions 49
Class XI Sailing ships which proceed to sea 50
Class XII Pleasure yachts of 45 feet in length or over 51
PART IV—GENERAL
Additional requirements for ships carrying Explosives 52
Fire pumps 53
Fire main, Water service pipes and Hydrants 54
Fire hoses, Nozzles, etc. 55
International shore connection 56
Fire extinguishers 57
Fire buckets 58
Fixed pressure Water spraying systems for machinery
spaces 59
Fixed fire smothering Gas and Steam installations 60
Fixed Foam fire extinguishing installations 61
Fire Detection systems 62
Firemen's outfits 63
Means for Stopping machinery, Shutting off oil fuel and
suction pipes and Closing of openings 64
Fire Control plans 65
Availability of fire fighting appliances 66
Equivalents and Exemptions 67
Schedules
Page
Schedule 1. Limits of smooth water and partially smooth
water areas 3047
Schedule 2. International shore connection 3057
Schedule 3. Non-portable foam fire extinguishers 3059
Schedule 4. Non-portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers 3060
Schedule 5. Breathing apparatus 3060
The Board of Trade in exercise of their powers under Section 427 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894(a), as substituted by Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Safety Convention) Act 1949(b) and as amended by Section 9 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1964(c) and as having effect by virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Shipping and Construction of Ships) Order 1965(d), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Rules:—
PART I—PRELIMINARY
Interpretation and Repeal
1.—(1) These Rules shall come into operation on the 26th May 1965 and may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules 1965.
(2) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively—
"Accommodation space" means passenger spaces, corridors, lavatories, cabins, offices, crew spaces, shops, isolated pantries and lockers and similar spaces;
"Board" means the Board of Trade;
(a) 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.
(b) 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 43.
(c) 1964 c. 47.
(d) S.I. 1965/145 (1965 I, p. 438).
"Cargo space" means spaces appropriated for cargo, other than mail and bullion, and trunks leading to such spaces;
"Crew space" means crew accommodation within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act 1948(a);
"Control station" includes those spaces in which radio, main navigating or central fire-recording equipment or the emergency generator is located;
"Length" in relation to a registered ship means registered length, and in relation to an unregistered ship means the length from the fore part of the stem to the aft side of the head of the stern post or, if no stern post is fitted to take the rudder, to the fore side of the rudder stock at the point where the rudder passes out of the hull;
"Oil fired boiler" means any boiler wholly or partly fired by liquid fuel not being a domestic boiler of less than 250,000 B.T.U. per hour;
"Oil fuel unit" means the equipment used for the preparation of oil fuel for delivery to the oil burners of an oil fired boiler and includes the oil pressure pumps, filters and heaters;
"Passenger space" means space provided for the use of passengers;
"Passenger steamer" means a steamer carrying more than 12 passengers;
"Sailing ship" includes a ship provided with sufficient sail area for navigation under sails alone, whether or not fitted with mechanical means of propulsion;
"Service space" includes galleys, main pantries, laundries, store rooms, paint rooms, baggage rooms, mail rooms, bullion rooms, carpenters' and plumbers' workshops, and trunkways leading to such spaces;
"Settling tank" means an oil storage tank having a heating surface of not less than 2 square feet per ton of oil capacity;
"Steamer" includes a ship propelled by electricity or other mechanical power;
"Tanker" means a cargo ship constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of liquid cargoes of an inflammable nature;
"Tons" in relation to the tonnage of a ship means gross tons.
(3) These Rules apply to—
(a) British ships, except ships registered in a Dominion within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster 1931 or in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Ghana, Malaysia, the Republic of Cyprus, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Malta, Zambia, The Gambia, the Republic of Ireland or in any territory administered by Her Majesty's Government in any such Dominion;
(b) other ships while they are within any port in the United Kingdom.
Provided that these Rules shall not apply to—
(i) a ship by reason of her being within a port in the United Kingdom if she would not have been in any such port but for stress of weather or any other circumstance that neither the master nor the owner nor the charterer (if any) of the ship could have prevented or forestalled;
(ii) pleasure yachts which are not passenger steamers and are of less than 45 feet in length.
(4) The Interpretation Act 1889(a) shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if these Rules and the Rules hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
(5) The Merchant Shipping (Fire Appliances) Rules 1952(b) are hereby revoked.
Classification of Ships
2.—(1) For the purpose of these Rules the ships to which these Rules apply shall be arranged in the following Classes:—
Passenger Steamers
Class I. Passenger steamers engaged on voyages (not being short international voyages) any of which are long international...
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