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The principal new requirements are as follows:—
1. Submission of Plans. Accommodation must be constructed in accordance with plans
approved by the Board of Trade. A plan showing the general arrangement of the ship is to be submitted
before construction is commenced. Before construction of the accommodation is commenced
plans must be submitted drawn to a scale of one quarter inch to one foot showing in detail the allocation
of space, the disposition of furnishings and fittings, the means of lighting, ventilation and heating and
the sanitary arrangements. In the case of large passenger ships plans may be to a scale of one-eighth
inch to one foot.
2. Position of Accommodation. The whole of the accommodation is to be situated above the
load line and amidships or aft. The Board of Trade may sanction departure from these requirements
where they consider compliance to be unreasonable or impracticable and particularly in large passenger
ships where there is an approved system of lighting and ventilation.
3. Height of Accommodation is not to be less than seven feet six inches, in ships of 1,600 tons
gross and over, nor less than seven feet in smaller ships.
4. Construction. Internal bulkheads are to be of steel, plywood or other approved material.
The use of tongued and grooved boarding or any other form of construction which may tend to harbour
vermin will not be permitted.
5. Separate Accommodation for Different Eatings. Separate sleeping accommodation is
to be provided for each category of the ship's personnel as follows:—officers, petty officers, apprentices,
seamen, firemen and stewards.
Separate messroom accommodation is to be provided for the following categories: officers, petty
officers, apprentices and ratings, with certain exemptions in the case of passenger ships and small
ships.
Separate sanitary accommodation is to be provided for officers, petty officers, apprentices and
ratings.
6. Sleeping Rooms. Each watch of seamen, firemen and similar ratings on duty in watches is
to be provided with a separate sleeping room or rooms with exemption for small ships in special cases.
Each member of the crew must be provided with a clothes locker in the sleeping room. The locker
is to be properly ventilated and at least five feet six inches high, twenty-one inches wide and fifteen
inches deep. Beds must be of metal or hardwood and of approved design. Every bed must be so
situated that it can be conveniently entered from the side, access across an adjoining bed not being
allowed. Whenever possible beds are to be placed inboard, but if it is necessary to place them at the
ship's side only one tier will be permitted in this position. Inboard beds should preferably be in a
single tier.
7. Messrooms. Must be of such size as to accommodate at a single time all the men who use
them. Tables must provide a dining space of at least twenty inches per person. Seats must be
provided with reasonably sloped back rests. Where men provide their own food each man must be
provided with a suitable locker. Food lockers must not be placed in sleeping rooms.
8. Washplaces and Bathrooms. Must be in close proximity to the accommodation or
alternatively for engine-room ratings near the stokehold. Fixed wash basins must be supplied as
follows:—
Stewards—one for every ten men for the first hundred, and thereafter one for twenty men.
Sailors' and firemen—one wash-basin for every two men in a watch. Wash buckets may be
provided in lieu of wash basins but these must be one for each man, and there must be a rack
for stowage.
Baths or showers supplied with hot and cold water must be provided in or adjoining each washplace.
An adequate supply of hot and cold fresh water must at all times be readily available for washing
purposes.
9. Drying Boom. Must be provided unless there are other adequate facilities for drying clothes.
10. Privy Accommodation. Water closets are to be of the single pedestal type of glazed stoneware
or enamelled iron, and each must have individual and constantly available flush.
Provision must be in the proportion of not less than one water closet for every ten men up to one
hundred, and four per cent0 thereafter.