DOCKING AND MOORING -> 303
7. You are coming up a river, on the flood. How would you dock your
ship with the tide running right across the entrance?
I would turn round and stem the tide. Come alongside the lower
pierhead (A) and get a line ashore irom my inside bow. After
getting alongside and if no tug available I would run a line from the
outside quarter to the opposite
knuckle (B) to heave her stern
up against the tide. Engines
ahead and check round the
knuckle using bow line as
required and heaving on the
quarter rope.
Alternative method. If
g the tide is strong, come
alongside at upper side of entrance (B), get port quarter and bow ropes
ashorea then drop astern, fiist using quarter rope to check her in to
the entrance stern first, then the bow rope to keep the vessel from
being swept too far round by the tide.
8 Coming up a river you have arrived outside a dock with the ebb tide
coming down but are just in time to get in. How would you
dock her?
Give her a cant in under very easy steam, run a good line ashore
from my inside bow; and drop gently alongside the pierhead. Should
not waste any time, but should be careful not to do any damage. With
the exception that I should not turn her round before coming alongside,
the procedure would be the same as in the answer to the last question.
9. You are anchored in a river below a dock entrance on the flood tide.
Several other vessels are anchored astern of you. How would
you get into the dock?
Lift my anchor and drop up the river with the tide. Give my ship
a little way with the engines and sheer her.over towards the river bank
so that she will not foul any of the vessels astern. Avoid passing in
between them unless I had plenty of room. When clear of them all,
and above the dock entrance, steam slowly towards the pierhead, sheer
in gradually and lay her alongside the up-river knuckle. Enter the
dock as before.