Deck & Navigation Flashcards
What is the measuring standard for the following?
Line
Wire
Line - Circumference
Wire - Diameter
What are the characteristics of 5 3/8” strand Aramid mooring lines?
- Strength: 180,000 (Lbs)
- Stretch Limit: 6%
- Breaking Characteristics: Strands are designed to break sequentially to help release the energy of the break
What are the following terms as applied to small boats?
Sea painter?
Steady Lines?
- Sea Painter: Used to keep a small boat alongside the ship to stay under the hook to recover from davit or to conduct passenger transfer via pilots ladder
- Steady Lines: Used to keep small boat steady when recovering/ launching
Types of ground tackle?
- Cleat
- Bitts
- Closed Chock
- Padeye
- Bollard
Bullnose?
- The forward most closed chock on the ship
- Used for mooring to piers and buoys and being towed
Hawse Pipe?
- Used as a fairlead to pay out or heave around on the anchor chain and house the anchor
What is Die-Lock Chain?
- Presently installed on many ships
- Was specified by the Navy
- The last die-lock chain was produced in 1985
- Replaced by the flash-butt-welded chain
What is the Flash-Butt-Welded Chain?
- Navy standard for new ship construction
- Each shot bear’s the manufacturer’s serial number
- If one or both of these links are removed for any reason, the shot serial number and the reasons for their absence should be inserted in the ship’s anchor log
Anchor Markings?
- The detachable links of anchor chains are painted red, white, or blue as follows
- Red: 15 fathoms
- White: 30 fathoms
- Blue: 45 fathoms
- Cycle repeats every 15 fathoms (red for 60 fathoms, white for 75 fathoms, etc)
- One link on each side of the detachable link is painted white, and one turn of wire is wrapped securely around each stud
Anchor Buoy?
- Green: Starboard anchor
- Red: Port anchor
- White: Stern anchor
Detachable Link?
- Consists of a C-shaped link with two coupling plates that form one side
- and stud of the link of the link A taper pin that holds the parts together and is locked in place at the large end by a lead plug
- Detachable link parts are not interchangeable
- Matching numbers are stamped on the C-link and on each coupling plate to ensure its identification and proper assembly
Cable Jack?
- Consisting of a lever on an axle and two wheels
- Used to handle anchor chain of 2 3/4 inches, or larger, in size
Chain Stopper?
- Riding and housing chain stoppers consist of a turnbuckle inserted in a couple of links of chain
- A pelican hook is attached to one end of the chain; a shackle is attached at the other end
- The housing stopper is nearest the hawsepipe and must be installed outboard of the swivel
- The riding stopper is farther inboard
Towing Chain Stopper?
- Chain stoppers have locking plates added
Swivel Shot?
- Reduce kinking or twisting of the anchor chain
Gypsy Winch/ Head
- Gypsy winches have one or two horizontally mounted gypsy heads
Avast heaving?
- Stop heaving (taking in)
Check Three?
- Hold number three line, and allow only enough of it to render around the bitts to prevent the line from parting
Double Up and Secure?
- In addition to single part of a mooring line at each bitt, a bight of line is passed to the pier or other ship which gives three parts of line holding the ship
Single up?
- Take in all lines but a single standing point to each station (preparatory to getting underway)
Cast off?
- A command to those tending the mooring lines on the pier or on another ship to disengage or throw off the lines from over the bollards or cleats
Small Stuff?
- Any fiber line less than 1 3/4 inches in circumference
Flemish?
- Starting with the bitter end and laying successive circles on the deck of line in the manner of a clock spring with the bitter end in the center
Heaving Line?
- A light line used to get a hawser ashore when mooring a ship to the dock
- Or in passing a heavy line for any purpose
Bight?
- A loop of line/Wire rope or chain
Eye splice?
Consists of three main components:
- The Eye: normally 6 to 10 feet in length
- Individual Strands
- Standing Part of the rope
- Rule of thumb for preferred length of the eye is 5 times the diameter of the fitting
Long Splice?
- A splice for forming a united rope narrow enough to pass through a block
Short Splice?
- Stronger than long splice
- increases the line’s diameter, making it difficult, if not impossible to pass through a block
Marlinspike?
- a tapered steel tool for separating strands of rope or wire in splicing
FID?
- A sharply pointed, round wood or metal tool used in separating the strands of a line for splicing
Tattletale?
- Bight of six-thread manila
- Warns that there is danger of exceeding the line’s SWL (Safe Working Load)
- TO know when the line is about to part or break
Dip the Eye?
- Passing the eye of a line through that of another line and then around a bollard
Single Up?
- Command given before unmooring a ship from a pier
- Take in all sections of line between the ship and the pier, leaving the vessel moored only by a single line to the bitts
Double Up?
- Double mooring lines for added strength
Frapping Lines
- Lines passed around the forward and aft boat falls to steady the boat when hoisting or lowering
Chafing Gear?
- Canvas, line, or other material placed around rigging and mooring lines to prevent wear
Rat-Tailed Stopper?
- A braided tapering stopper used on boat falls and mooring
Line Pull danger are/Bight Area?
- Due to snap-back action, never allow personnel to stand in the direct line of pull of the line when it is being pulled or when it is under tension
- A synthetic line will snap back at near the speed of sound
- Position line handlers at 90° from the direction of the tension force
Messenger?
- The main line used to assist in hauling any rig across between the ships
Easing Out Line?
- 12 to 21-thread manila with whipped ends
Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method?
- A tensioned rig with the spanwire and saddle whips tended by winches at the delivery station
- Allows ships to open out to a greater distance than is possible with the other fueling ships
- Minimizes the possibility of tight lining and parting of the spanwire
- Provides personnel safety by maintaining tension in the spanwire
Connected Replenishments
Station 1:
- Cargo transfer (Starboard side Foc’sle CIWS deck)
Connected Replenishments
Station 2:
- Cargo Transfer (Port side Foc’cle CIWS deck)
Connected Replenishments
Station 3:
- Fueling Station for f-76 (DFM) (Starboard Side FAS Station)
Connected Replenishments
Station 4:
- Cargo Transfer (Port side RAS Station)
Connected Replenishments
Station 5:
- Cargo Transfer (Starboard side RAS station)
Connected Replenishments
Station 6:
Fueling Fueling Station for f-76 (DFM) (Port side FAS station)
Connected Replenishments
Station 7:
- Non-Tensioned Spanline Rig can send f-44 (JP-5) and F-76 (DFM) (30 ton B&A Crane)
Connected Replenishments
Station 8:
- Fueling station for f-76 (DFM) and F-44 (JP-5) (Port side Aft of quarterdeck)
Connected Replenishments
Station 9:
- Fueling Station for F-76 (DFM) and f-44 (JP-5) (Starboard side aft of Querterdeck)
How much do the port and Starboard anchors weigh?
What type of Anchors do we have onboard?
- 30,000 Lbs
- Standard Navy Stockless
How many shots does the port and starboard anchor have?
- Port: 11 Shots
- Starboard: 14 Shots
What is the color code of each anchor shot?
- Red, white, blue
How long is a shot?
- 15 Fathoms or 90 feet