The main and essential point to my view is to eliminate, as far as is practicable, any possible chance of a fire breaking out. A fire in a building on shore can be attacked from so/many angles from the ground upwards, with plenty of resources available to release the heat, smoke, and hot gases. In a fire on board ship the only outlet for the heat etc. is the approach by which the firemen must enter or travel, the space is also congested and limited due to these and other disadvantages. A fire on a ship has a greater tendency to spread than a fire on land.
The installation of sprinklers at various sections of ships is worthy of consideration. They would operate in difficult and inaccessible sections of the boat where the firemen would find it difficult to operate fire apphanoes. One essential factor is that the personnel that is required to operate the fire appliances should be fully competent and conversant in their uses in the event they are called upon to use them. Fire fighting does not merely consist of dir-ceting a jet of water on to a spot where a fire is presumed to be.
Fires in inaccessible and difficult positions can only be controlled and checked by practical methods which are acquired only by practical training
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