Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NAVIGATION (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS 1968 - REG 269B

(1)

A watertight collision bulkhead shall be provided in a cargo ship and shall be located not less than 5 per cent or not more than 7.5 per cent of the length of the ship abaft the forward perpendicular.

(2)

The collision bulkhead shall extend to the uppermost continuous deck.

(3)

A watertight afterpeak bulkhead shall be provided in way of the stern tube stuffing box at such a distance from the after perpendicular as is appropriate having regard to the length of the stern tube.

(4)

A watertight bulkhead shall be provided at each end of the machinery space in a cargo ship.

(5)

Such additional watertight bulkheads as are appropriate having regard to the trade in which the ship is or is to be engaged shall be fitted throughout the holds of a cargo ship and spaced, as far as practicable, at uniform intervals.

(6)

The last preceding subregulation does not apply to a ship:

(a)

that is to be deemed, by regulation 48 of the Navigation (Load Lines) Regulations, to be a Type A ship for the purposes of the assignment of freeboards under those Regulations; or

(b)

that is a Type B ship to which a reduction in freeboard is assigned under regulation 51 of those Regulations.

(7)

Watertight bulkheads other than a bulkhead of the type referred to in subregulation (1) of this regulation shall extend at least to the freeboard deck, except that the afterpeak bulkhead may be stopped at a watertight deck or platform situated above the deepest load line marked on the ship.