REGULATIONS

Wages and other remuneration Food and accommodation Entering
and clearing the ship. National Insurance of crew

(2) Tonnage, life-saving appliances, salvage and assistance and, in
general, the safety of ship, crew and passengers.

(3) Load line marks and entries and reports to be made respecting
them. Surveys required by law.

(4) Hygiene of ships, living spaces, holds, etc. Water Fresh and
preserved food. Infectious diseases The law relating to them and the
procedure on board in such case. Quarantine procedure Recognition
and simple treatment of common illness, e.g , fevers, etc. (See the Ship
Capta%n's Medical Gmde.)

(5) The carnage of emigrants.

(c) £> simple knowledge of the law relating to cargo, including a knowledge
of shipowners' liabilities in carriage of cargo.

(d) A general knowledge of shipping business and documents — charter
parties, bills of lading, etc. A knowledge of average — general and particular.
Flotsam and jetsam (XIX , XX.)

59 Paper 7. (Written.) Engineering Knowledge.

(Including Carriage of Refrigerated Cargoes.) (3 hours.)

(The requirements will not go beyond the knowledge that could be obtained
by a deck officer who takes an intelligent interest in the machinery
of the ship and supplements by a little reading what he has learnt
in this way.)

(a) The meaning of general engineering terms, e.g., horsepower, slip and
pitch of propeller, link, latent heat of steam, superheated steam, etc,

A general knowledge of a marine boiler and furnaces, and the procedure
for raising steam. The general action of a reciprocating steam engine.
Principle of the condenser. Distribution of steam from boiler to engines —
valves and pipelines. Admission to engine — slide valves, eccentrics, expansion
link. Starting gear. Simple description (without detail) of various parts of
engines and boilers, e g , connecting rod, crank, piston and rings, packing
of piston rods, relief valves and cylinder drains, line shafting, couplings, tail
shaft, stern tube and packing. Auxiliaries and their uses — circulating pump,
air pump, feed pump, bilge pump. Action of propeller. Thrust block.
Attachment of propeller to shaft.

Oil fired furnaces and use of- oil fuel. A simple knowledge of turbine
machinery and of Diesel engines. Warming up and turning engines. Stopping
and going astern — how done. A knowledge of what is required in the engine
room on the receipt of manoeuvring orders from the bridge. Fuel consumption
and economical speeds. Power and speed curves. Effect of alterations of
speed on fuel consumption and estimation of adequacy of fuel to complete
a given voyage.

(b) An elementary knowledge of refrigeration on board ship. Types of
refrigeration on board ships. Types of refrigeration employed in special tsases.
Stowage and general handling of refrigerated cargoes.

, 60. Oral Portion.

(«} Exceptional circumstances — loss of rudder; shifting a damaged
rudder. Construction of jury rudders. Making and launching of rafts.
Collision. Leaks. Damage of all kinds. Running repairs and precautions
in case of accidents. Grounding — methods of refloating. Beaching a vessel
Steps to t>e taken when disabled and in distress.
{b) Preservation of crew and passengers in tfce event of wreck. Abandoning
a wrecked sMp. Rockets and rocket apparatus. Communications with the
orje.
|c) Assisting a vessel in distress. Rescuing crew ol a disabled ship,
- ftf) Towing and being to^ed.