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(3) For any ship that has one or more sidescuttles so placed that 

 the requirements of clause (1) of this sub-paragraph would 

 apply when she was floating at her deepest subdivision loadline. 

 the Administration may indicate the limiting mean draught at 

 which these sidescuttles will have their sills above the line 

 drawn parallel to the bulkhead deck at side, and having its 

 lowest point 4^ feet (or 1-37 metres) plus 2^ per cent, of 

 the breadth of the ship above the waterline corresponding to 

 the limiting mean draught, and at which it will therefore be 

 permissible to depart from port without previously closing and 

 locking them and to open them at sea on the responsibility of 

 the master during the voyage to the next port. In tropical 

 zones as defined in the International Convention respecting 

 Load Lines in force, this limiting draught may be increased 

 by 1 foot (or 0-305 metres). 



{d) Efl&cient hinged inside deadlights arranged so that they can be easily 

 and effectively closed and secured watertight shall be fitted to all side- 

 scuttles except that abaft one-eighth of the ship's length from the forward 

 perpendicular and above a line drawn parallel to the bulkhead deck at side 

 and having its lowest point at a height of 12 feet (or 3-66 metres) plus 

 2V per cent, of the breadth of the ship above the deepest subdivision load- 

 hne, the deadlights may be portable in passenger accommodation other than 

 that for steerage passengers, unless the deadlights are required by the 

 International Convention respecting Load Lines in force to be permanently 

 attached in their proper positions. Such portable deadlights shall be stowed 

 adjacent to the sidescuttles they serve. 



(e) Sidescuttles and their deadlights, which will not be accessible during 

 navigation, shall be closed and secured before the ship leaves port. 



if) (i) No sidescuttles shall be fitted in any spaces which are appropriated 

 exclusively to the carriage of cargo or coal. 



(ii) Sidescuttles may, however, be fitted in spaces appropriated 

 alternatively to the carriage of cargo or passengers, but they shall be of such 

 construction as will effectively prevent any person opening them or their 

 deadlights without the consent of the master of the ship. 



(iii) If cargo is carried in such spaces, the sidescuttles and their dead- 

 lights shall be closed watertight and locked before the cargo is shipped and 

 such closing and locking shall be recorded in such log book as may be 

 prescribed by the Administration. 



(g) Automatic ventilating sidescuttles shall not be fitted in the shell plating 

 below the margin line without the special sanction of the Administration. 



(h) The number of scuppers, sanitary discharges and other similar openings 

 in the shell plating shall be reduced to the minimum either by making each 

 discharge serve for as many as possible of the sanitary and other pipes, or in 

 any other satisfactory manner. 



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