Seaman

Front 1

What is the equipment used in anchoring and mooring called?

1. Rigging
2. Connecting gear
3. Ground tackle
4. Turnbuckles

Back 1

3. Ground tackle

Front 2

What part of the anchor digs in as it is dragged across the ocean
bottom?

1. Stock
2. Shank
3. Wedge
4. Fluke

Back 2

4. Fluke

Front 3

What type of anchor is most commonly used aboard naval ships?

1. Stockless
2. Wedge block
3. Mushroom
4. Stock

Back 3

1. Stockless

Front 4

What naval stockless anchor has the greatest holding power?

1. Commercial
2. Standard
3. Mark 2
4. Mark 4

Back 4

3. Mark 2

Front 5

What type of anchor is normally used in groups of three or more, surrounding a central mooring
point?

1. Wedge block
2. Danforth
3. Stock
4. Mushroom

Back 5

4. Mushroom

Front 6

Navy anchor chains of the
flash-welded type is the standard for new ship constructions.

1. True
2. False

Back 6

1. True

Front 7

How long is a standard shot of
anchor chain?

1. 15 feet
2. 15 fathoms
3. 15 yards
4. 15 meters

Back 7

2. 15 fathoms

Front 8

What devices are used to join
standard shots of anchor chain
together?

1. Bending shackles
2. Connecting shackles
3. Center shackles
4. Detachable links

Back 8

4. Detachable links

Front 9

What device is used to attach the anchor to the chain?

1. Chain swivel
2. Bending shackle
3. Detachable link
4. Outboard swivel shot

Back 9

2. Bending shackle

Front 10

Which of the following is NOT a use of the chain stopper?

1. To hold the anchor taut in the hawsepipe
2. To ride to an anchor
3. To hold the anchor when the
anchor is disconnected
4. To secure a shackle permanently to the pad eye

Back 10

2. To ride to an anchor

Front 11

What devices are used to attach the anchor chain to mooring buoys?

1. Mooring shackles
2. Mooring swivels
3. Chain cable jacks
4. Clear hawse pendants

Back 11

1. Mooring shackles

Front 12

An anchor chain on deck shows one blue detachable link and six links on either side, with six turns of wire in the end white links. A total of how many fathoms of chain
are out?

1. 45
2. 60
3. 75
4. 90

Back 12

4. 90

Front 13

What is the color of the detachable link at 45 fathoms?

1. Blue
2. Green
3. Red
4. White

Back 13

1. Blue

Front 14

What is the color of the next-to-last shot of an anchor
chain?

1. Blue
2. Red
3. White
4. Yellow

Back 14

1. Blue

Front 15

As a minimum, how often should
1 1/2-inch anchor chains be laid out on deck and thoroughly examined?

1. Annually
2. Monthly
3. Quarterly
4. Semiannually

Back 15

3. Quarterly

Front 16

What type windlass has its power source located below deck?

1. Electric drive
2. Electrohydraulic drive
3. Vertical shaft
4. Horizontal shaft

Back 16

3. Vertical shaft

Front 17

What device(s) permit(s) free rotation of the wildcat when you are paying out the chain?

1. Whelps
2. Locking head
3. Drum
4. Pockets

Back 17

2. Locking head

Front 18

What term is used to describe the anchor buoy when it is floating on the surface above the anchor?

1. Dipping
2. Listening
3. Looking
4. Watching

Back 18

4. Watching

Front 19

When weighing anchor, when is the anchor aweigh?

1. When it is free of the bottom
2. When it is in sight
3. When the chain is up and down
4. When it is heaved in just short of breaking out

Back 19

1. When it is free of the bottom

Front 20

What command should be used to inform the seaman to release the brake so the chain is heaved in enough to take strain off the stopper?

1. HEAVE AROUND AND UP
2. HEAVE AROUND TO SHORT STAY
3. HEAVE AROUND
4. READY TO HEAVE IN

Back 20

3. HEAVE AROUND

Front 21

Approximately how much of the heaving line is coiled and held in the casting hand?

1. 1/3
2. 1/2
3. 2/3
4. 3/4

Back 21

3. 2/3

Front 22

What device is used with davits having wire rope falls?

1. Drum
2. Track
3. Bull
4. GYPSY

Back 22

1. Drum

Front 23

What type of mechanical boat davit handles the rescue rigid inflatable
boat?

1. The crescent davit
2. The pivot sheath davit
3. The slewing arm davit
4. The gravity link davit

Back 23

3. The slewing arm davit

Front 24

What davit is mainly used aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious helicopter landing ships?

1. Pivoted
2. Pivoted link
3. Pivoted sheath screw
4. Overhead suspended

Back 24

4. Overhead suspended

Front 25

When using a gravity boat davit, what winch devices control the boat's descending speed and prevent the davit arms from slamming into the outboard stop?

1. Handcranks
2. Arm configurations
3. Davits
4. Manual brakes

Back 25

4. Manual brakes

Front 26

What boat davit safety device is used to indicate when the electric motor must be deenergized during
hoisting to prevent overstressing or failure of davit components?

1. Double brake feature
2. Safe hoisting position stripes
3. Emergency disconnect switch
4. Fluid brake

Back 26

2. Safe hoisting position stripes

Front 27

The purpose of the fluid brake is to regulate the speed of a descending boat.

1. True
2. False

Back 27

1. True

Front 28

What deck fitting should you use to make fast a line that has been led through a chock?

1. Cleat
2. Bitt
3. Chock
4. Bollard

Back 28

2. Bitt

Front 29

What deck fitting consists of a double-ended pair of projecting horns used for belaying a wire?

1. Cleat
2. Bitt
3. Chock
4. Pad eye

Back 29

1. Cleat

Front 30

There are how many types of chock?

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Back 30

3. Three

Front 31

When a naval vessel has two accommodation ladders, what personnel use the forward ladder?

1. Working parties
2. Liberty parties and yard
workers
3. Messmen and hospital corpsmen
4. Officers and ceremonial
participants

Back 31

4. Officers and ceremonial
participants

Front 32

What type of ladder is rigged out and lowered to provide for boarding or leaving an anchored ship?

1. Gangway
2. Platform
3. H-frame
4. Accommodation

Back 32

4. Accommodation

Front 33

For ease of handling, most
accommodation ladders in the Navy today are made of aluminum.

1. True
2. False

Back 33

1. True

Front 34

On ships not having outriggers, what davit can be used to support the ladder over the side?

1. An H-frame
2. A single-sheave block
3. A J-bar
4. A pad eye

Back 34

3. A J-bar

Front 35

What device is used for mooring small boats clear of a ship's side?

1. Accommodation ladder
2. Boat boom
3. Shroud
4. Jacob's ladder

Back 35

2. Boat boom

Front 36

What devices control the fore and aft motion of the boat boom?

1. Pad eyes
2. Lifelines
3. Toggles
4. Guys

Back 36

4. Guys

Front 37

A boat boom is secured to the side of a ship by what device(s)?

1. A gooseneck and a pin
2. A roddle and a U-bolt
3. A U-bolt and a clamp
4. A pad eye

Back 37

1. A gooseneck and a pin

Front 38

What part of the boat boom rigging is designed to permit the boat crews to come aboard ship?

1. Topping lift
2. Guess-warp
3. Jacob's ladder
4. After guys

Back 38

3. Jacob's ladder

Front 39

What equipment should you heave around on to spot the yard-and-stay booms in their working area?

1. Topping lifts
2. Guys
3. Whips
4. Plumbs

Back 39

2. Guys

Front 40

What minimum number of steadying lines should be attached to heavy or unwieldy loads?

1. Five
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four

Back 40

2. Two

Front 41

Replenishment at sea is a broad term applied to all methods of transferring material and personnel
at sea.

1. True
2. False

Back 41

1. True

Front 42

What craft is needed to carry out a vertical replenishment (VERTREP)?

1. Submarine
2. Fixed-wing aircraft
3. Helicopter
4. Jet aircraft

Back 42

3. Helicopter

Front 43

Which of the following ships has the primary duty of supplying ammunition to the fleet?

1. AE
2. AO
3. AFS
4. AOE

Back 43

1. AE

Front 44

What are the most common refueling rigs used in the Navy?

1. Probe and heavy weather
2. Manila highline and Burton
housefall
3. Surf and Stream
4. Span-wire and close-in

Back 44

4. Span-wire and close-in

Front 45

What flaghoist signal should the receiving ship hoist to indicate it is disengaging at final station?

1. ROMEO closed up
2. ROMEO at the dip
3. PREP closed up
4. PREP at the dip

Back 45

3. PREP closed up