Remote controls and alarms

(1) Every ship shall be provided with means for stopping ventilating fans serving machinery and cargo spaces and for closing all doorways, ventilators and annular spaces around funnels and other openings to these spaces. These means shall be capable of being operated from outside the spaces in case of fire. (2) Forced and induced draft fans, oil pumps, purifiers and other oil-handling equipment shall be fitted with remote controls situated outside the space concerned so that they may be stopped and secured in the event of a fire arising in the space which they are located. (3) Every oil-fuel suction pipe from a storage, settling or daily tank located above the double bottom shall be fitted with Merchant Ships (Registration) 26 a cock or valve capable of being closed from outside the space in which such tanks are located. In the special case of deeptanks located in a shaft or pipe tunnel, valves on the tanks shall be fitted, but control in event of fire may be effected by means of an additional valve on the pipeline outside the tunnel. (4) An automatic remote fire alarm shall be fitted in any unattended propulsion machinery space.