CFR > Title 46 - Shipping > CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER I—CARGO AND MISCELLANEOUS VESSELS (parts 90 to 105) > PART 95—FIRE PROTECTION EQUIPMENT > SUBPART 95.50—Hand Portable Fire Extinguishers and Semiportable Fire Extinguishing Systems, Arrangements and Details (§95.50-1 to §95.50-90) > 95.50-10—Location.

95.50-10—Location.

(a) Approved hand portable fire extinguishers and semiportable fire extinguishing systems shall be installed in accordance with Table 95.50-10(a). 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.
Table 95.50-10(a)—Hand Portable Fire Extinguisher and Semiportable Fire-Extinguishing Systems
Space Classification (see § 95.50-5) Quantity and location
Safety areas1
Wheelhouse or fire control room None required.
Stairway and elevator enclosures Do.
Communicating corridors A-II 1 in each main corridor not more than 150 feet apart. (May be located in stairways.)
Lifeboat embarkation and lowering stations None required.
Radio room
C-I 2 2 in vicinity of exit.2
Accommodations1
Staterooms, toilet spaces, public spaces, offices, lockers, isolated storerooms, and pantries, open decks, etc None required.
Service spaces1
Galleys B-II or C-II 1 for each 2,500 square feet or fraction thereof suitable for hazards involved.
Paint and lamp rooms B-II 1 outside space in vicinity of exit.
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.
Carpenter shop and similar spaces A-II 1 outside the space in vicinity of exit.
Machinery spaces
Coal-fired boilers: Bunker and boiler space 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 3; 1 required.4
Internal combustion or gas turbine propelling machinery spaces B-II 1 for each 1,000 brake horsepower, but not less than 2 nor more than 6.5
B-III 1 required.67
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.7
Electric emergency motors or generators C-II 1 outside the space in vicinity of exit.8
Steam None required.
Trunks to machinery spaces Do.
Fuel tanks Do.
Cargo spaces
Inaccessible during voyage, including trunks and cargo tanks Do.
Accessible during voyage Do.
1 For motorboats, the total number of hand portable fire extinguishers required for safety areas, accommodation spaces, and service spaces shall be 1 B-II for motorboats of less than 50 gross tons and 2 B-II for motor boats of 50 gross tons and over. Two B-I hand portable fire extinguishers may be substituted for 1 B-II.
2 For vessels on an international voyage, substitute 1 C-II in vicinity of exit.
3 Vessels of less than 1,000 gross tons require 1.
4 Vessels of less than 1,000 gross tons may substitute 1 B-IV.
5 Only 1 required for motorboats.
6 If oil burning donkey boiler fitted in space, the B-V previously required for the protection of the boiler may be substituted. Not required where a fixed carbon dioxide system is installed.
7Not required on vessels of less than 300 gross tons if fuel has a flashpoint higher than 110 °F.
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8 Not required on vessels of less than 300 gross tons.
(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 § 97.37-15 of this subchapter.
(d) Hand portable fire extinguishers and their stations shall be numbered in accordance with § 97.37-23 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.