REGULATIONS
CERTIFICATES FOE HOME TRADE PASSENGER SHIPS.
The service required for these certificates may have been performed either
in Home Trade or in Foreign-going ships.
Mate (Home Trade).
Minimum age, 20 years    Minimum sea service, 4 years.
No officer's service required.
Master (Home Trade).
Minimum age, 23 years.   Minimum sea service, 5 years,
Officer's service as follows —

Years. 	Lowest capacity. 	Lowest certificate
required. 	
1    H
2i H 	Only Mate        	
or
Second Mate in chaige. of watch 	Mate   H   or   Second
Mate F
»»                                    H 	
Apply to any navigation school tor information regarding temporary
war time modification of sea service qualifications
MERCHANT  NAVY TRAINING  BOARD.
PRACTICAL SEAMANSHIP.
FIRST YEAR
Sailorising.—Learn to box the compass in points.
Different rigs of sailing boats and sailing ships. Types of steamers. Pages
% to 6.
Whipping a rope; bends, hitches and knots; seizing and rackings; eye-splice
and short splice; worm, parcel and serve. Pages 8 to 22, 611, 612.
Blocks, tackles, ropes and their uses.   Spanish windlass.    Pages 26 to 33.
The rigging of steamers.   Page 49.
The names of the different kinds of lines and ropes in general use, the nature
and materials of which they are made, the forms of their make, the uses to
which they are put and the means to be adopted to ensure their long life.
Pages 8, 49 to 65, 611.
Cargowork.—Draught marks on stem and stern posts. Ix>ad line marks
Pages 372 to 385.
Length and size of strops, slings, belts and nets used in handling cargo.
Pages 386 to 391.	.
Preparation of holds for cargo. Cleaning of bilges and clearing suction
rose boxes. Closing and battening down hatches and gangway doors. Pages
398, 559, 604
Apparatus.—Handling and upkeep of patent logs and patent sounding
machines. Marks on hand lead and hand log lines. Pages 124 to 140*
Statutory*—Learn to repeat the Articles of the Rule of the Road. Pages
1S3 to 205.
Signalling.—Signalling by Morse, semaphore. Flags of the International
Code of Signals, Chapter XXII, page 617.
SECOND YEAH.	,
Saaorising.--Ship routine.   Pages 1 to 5,177 to 179.
Long splice*in rope, eye^splice in wire. Safe working load of rope, wire
and chain. Pages 20 to 25.	.
Seaming and ropingpalms, sewing canvas* awnings and tarpaulins.-
g^les of canva$ and tfeeir uses.    Pages 62, 63.