76.50-10—Location.

(a) Approved hand portable fire extinguishers and semiportable fire extinguishing systems shall be installed in accordance with table 76.50-10(a).

Table 76.50-10(a)

Space	Hand portable fire extinguisher and semiportable fire extinguishing systems
Space	Classification (see § 76.50-5)	Quantity and location
Safety area 1
Wheelhouse or fire control room	A-II, B-II, C-II	1 of each classification on vessels over 1,000 gross tons. (Not required in both spaces.) (Multiple classification may be recognized.)
Stairway and elevator enclosures		None required.
Communicating corridors	A-II	1 in each main corridor in each main vertical zone. (May be located in stairway enclosures.)
Lifeboat embarkation and lowering stations		None required.
Radio room	C-I 3	2 in vicinity of exit.2
Accommodations 1
Staterooms, toilet spaces, isolated pantries, etc.		None required.
Offices, lockers, and isolated storerooms		Do.
Public spaces	A-II	1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof located in vicinity of exits, except that none required for spaces under 500 square feet.
Open decks or enclosed promenades		None required.
Service spaces
Galleys	B-II or C-II	1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof suitable for hazards involved.
Main pantries	A-II	1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof located in vicinity of exits.
Motion picture booths and film lockers	C-I 3	1 outside in vicinity of exit.
Paint and lamp rooms	B-II	1 outside space in vicinity of exit.
Inaccessible baggage, mail, and specie rooms, and storerooms		None required.
Accessible baggage, mail, and specie rooms, and storerooms	A-II	1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof located in vicinity of exits, either inside or outside the spaces.
Refrigerated storerooms	A-II	1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof located in vicinity of exits, outside the spaces.
Carpenter, valet, photographic, printing shops sales rooms, etc	A-II	1 outside the space in vicinity of exit.
Machinery spaces
Coal Fired Boilers: Bunker and boilerspace		None required.
Oil Fired Boilers: Spaces, containing oil fired boilers, either main or auxiliary, or their fuel oil units	B-II, B-V	2 required.31 required.4
Internal combustion or gas turbine propelling machinery spaces	B-II	1 for each 1,000 B. H. P., but not less than 2 or more than 6.
	B-III	1 required.5
Electric propulsive motors or generators of open type	C-II	1 for each propulsion motor or generator unit.
Enclosed ventilating systems for motors and generators of electric propelling machinery		None required.
Auxiliary spaces, internal combustion or gas turbine	B-II	1 outside the space in vicinity of exit.6
Auxiliary spaces, electric emergency motors or generators	C-II	Do.
Auxiliary spaces, steam		None required.
Trunks to machinery spaces		Do.
Fuel tanks		Do.
Cargo spaces
Inaccessible during voyage, including trunks (excluding tanks)		Do.
Accessible during voyage	A-II	1 for each 1,200 square feet or fraction thereof.
Vehicular spaces (covered by sprinkler system)	B-II	1, plus 1 for each 6,000 square feet or fraction thereof:
Vehicular spaces (not covered by sprinkler system)	B-II	1, plus 1 for each 1,500 square feet or fraction thereof.7
Cargo oil tanks		None required.
1 In any case, on vessels of 150 feet in length, and over, there shall be at least 2 A-II units on each passenger deck.
2 For vessels on an international voyage, substitute 1 C-II in vicinity of exit.
3 Vessels of less than 1,000 gross tons and not on an international voyage, require 1.
4 Vessels of less than 1,000 gross tons and not on an international voyage may substitute 1 B-IV. Code of Federal Regulations 89
5 If oil burning donkey boiler fitted in space, the B-V previously required for the protection of the boilerroom may be substituted. Not required on vessels of less than 300 gross tons if fuel has flashpoint of 110 °F. or lower except those on an international voyage.
6 Not required on vessels of less than 300 gross tons if fuel has flashpoint higher than 110 °F.
7 B-I units may be substituted for 1 B-II unit.

The location of the equipment shall be to the satisfaction of the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as limiting the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, from requiring such additional equipment as he deems necessary for the proper protection of the vessel.

(b) Semiportable fire extinguishing systems shall be located in the open so as to be readily seen.

(c) If hand portable fire extinguishers are not located in the open or behind glass so that they may be readily seen, they may be placed in enclosures together with the fire hose, provided such enclosures are marked as required by § 78.47-20 of this subchapter.

(d) Hand portable fire extinguishers and their stations shall be numbered in accordance with § 78.47-30 of this subchapter.

(e) Hand portable or semiportable extinguishers, which are required on their nameplates to be protected from freezing, shall not be located where freezing temperatures may be expected.

[CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 10940, Dec. 30, 1965, as amended by CGFR 66-33, 31 FR 15283, Dec. 6, 1966]

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76.50-10—Location.