MERCHANT XAVY TRAINING BOARD SYLLABUS
Sea anchors, types and uses. Ranging; of chain cables in drydock Pages
119,121,331.
Keeping an anchor watch, dragging anchor. Duties of officer of watch.
Pages 179, 298 5
Preparations and precautions for getting underway. Duties prior to
proceeding to sea Pages 294, 305.
Precautions before entering, while in and before leaving drydock.
Inspection of ship's under water parts in drydock Pages 339, 430, 615.
Cargowork.—The arrangements of derrick and cargo working gear. Rigging
and working of heavy derricks Pages 45, 46, 55, 388.
Refrigerated cargoes. Pages 410 to 416.
Statutory.—Use of compass to ascertain nsk of collision. Pages 210 to 213
Distress and pilot signals, penalties for misuse Notices to Mariners.
Uniform system of buoyage. Rocket and line throwing apparatus Pages *
236 to 254, 569, 570
Ship hygiene and fumigation. Pages 555, 556.
Signalling.—Morse, semaphore, International Code Flags of all nations
Use of commercial code books Chapter XXII, page 617.
SHIP CONSTBUC130N.
FIRST YEAR.
Steel and wooden masts and derricks with their attachments and standing
and running rigging and gear. Pages 49 to 56.
Deck sheathing and waterways. Pages 433, 437, 449.
Hatch coamings Hatchways and covers both wood and steeL Pages
457 to 460, 602, 603.
Sounding pipes. Air pipes. Pages 475, 476.
SECOND YEAR. (In addition to previous year.)
Local stiffening at ends of vessel and under boilers, engines, winches,
windlass, etc. Pages 426 to 431.
Tank top plating. Plating of shell, bulkheads and decks. Pillaring and
stanchion arrangements. Pages 438 to 457.
Rudders of various types. Pages 464 to 468.
Bilge, and tank pumping arrangements. Pages 474 to 476, 604.
Carlin beams and partners. Page 602.
THIRD YEAR. (In addition to previous yeart) *
Names of the principal parts of a ship, e g. keel (bar and plate). Floors
(solid and skeleton) and double bottom. Centre girder or 'keelson. Side and
bilge keelsons. Pages 432 to 442, 597 to 601.
Stem bar, stern post, body post, stern frame, stem tube. Pages 460 to 474.
FOURTH YEAR. (In addition to previous years.)
A ship as a girder. Stresses a ship has to resist, longitudinal, transverse,
collapsing, local. Pages 426 to 432,
Longitudinal and transverse systems of fra-ming. Beams and beam knees.
Stringers and stringer plates and methods of attachment of the various parts.
The construction of the cellular double bottom with its various members,
Pages 433 to 442, 471, 478, 597 to 601.
Names of the various types of rivets and reasons for these. Pages 444 to
446.
Parts of a ship particularly liable to corrosion and methods of dealing
with it in peaks, bunkers, double ^bottom tanks, etc. Pages 480, 481, 613,
SPECIAL TYPES OF SHIPS FOE SPECIAL CARGOES,
The following section is; inserted as it is necessary that an apprentices
knowledge should not be confined to the type or types of vessels upon which
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