92. What kind of coaling gear is used?

93. Has the vessel a sea anchor? Was it over used?

94. Examine the turnbuckle screws in the rigging. Are they covered with canvas? How old? Are they whiteleaded and tallowed?

95. Where are the slings, chain and rope kept? In what condition? How many?

96. How many net slings on board? What condition?

97. What happens when metal becomes fatigued? Where is this liable to happen? What is a crystalline fracture?

98. What kind of wood in the decks? In the margin or waterway planks? Know Oregon pine—pitch pine—yellow pine—teak, when you see it.

99. How are decks caulked? What kind of filler is used—pitch—marine glue?

100. What do you know about the following parts of a steamer? Of her fittings, etc.?

  1. Anchor davits?
  2. Anchors?
  3. Awning deck?
  4. Ballast—water—dry?
  5. Beams—camber of—duty of—theory of—spacing—strength—types?
  6. Bilges—bilge keels?
  7. Boat chocks. Davits—cranes?
  8. Bollards? How many, etc?
  9. Bow—different kinds—framing?
  10. Breast hooks?
  11. Bridge—locations—names, etc.?
  12. Buckled—plates—spars?
  13. Bulkheads? How many—what kind—where?
  14. Bull rope?
  15. Bulwarks?
  16. Bunkers—how many—what capacity—where?
  17. Buoyancy? What is it? Reserve buoyancy?
  18. Bureau veritas? What is it? What does it do?
  19. Buttock lines?
  20. Buttstraps?
  21. Cables—size—weight—strength—studs—marking—shackles—forelocks—swivels?
  22. Cant frames (old dagger knees)?
  23. Cantilever principle—where used?
  24. Capstans—where—how many—what uses?
  25. Cargo—a big subject—takes a year or two to master it.
  26. Catheads?
  27. Cattle steamers—guards—footlocks, etc?
  28. Caulking—tools—materials? Steel plates—wood decks? Ceiling?
  29. Cement—hydraulic—asphaltic?
  30. Chain—slings—for clearing limbers, etc.?
  31. Chart house?
  32. Cheek plates?
  33. Circulating pumps?
  34. Coaling hatches—ports—chutes?
  35. Coamings?
  36. Coefficient of fineness?
  37. Commercial efficiency of a vessel?
  38. Composite construction?
  39. Corrosion—where most prevalent—how to keep down?
  40. Dead weight cargo? also measurement cargo?
  41. Decks—how many—where—what purpose?
  42. Derricks? How many?
  43. Docking—stresses—all—data?
  44. Dolly—what is it?
  45. Donkey boiler—where—why?
  46. Doors—water-tight—where—how closed—how controlled?
  47. Double bottom? See plans—study.
  48. Doubling plates? Where?
  49. Drain holes—in bottom?
  50. Elastic limit—of materials used in construction of vessel?
  51. Electric welding—how—how strong?
  52. Engine—learn all you can about it.
  53. Escape holes—for trimmers?
  54. Expansion joints—bends—trunks?
  55. Fair leads?
  56. Fans?
  57. Fiddley?
  58. Floors—rise of?
  59. Flush deck?
  60. Fore foot?
  61. Forgings?
  62. Frames?—look them over when in the hold. What are
    1. Z bars?
    2. Bulb angles?
    3. Channel bars?
    4. Web frames?
    5. Reverse frames?
    6. Transome frames?
  63. Freeboard? How determined?
  64. Freeing ports—percentage of in bulwarks?
  65. Frictional, or skin resistance?
  66. Galley? Where—how many?
  67. Garboard strake?
  68. Girders?
  69. Grain bulkheads?
  70. Gudgeons?
  71. Gunwale?
  72. Gutters?
  73. Half beams?
  74. Hatches—how many—where—names? Booby hatch?
  75. Hawse pipes? Clearing hawse?
  76. Heeling?
  77. Hogging?
  78. Hydraulic derricks—principle?
  79. Insulation of holds?
  80. Isherwood system of framing?
  81. Jogged framing?
  82. Jib-booms?
  83. Keel—kind, plate, bilge?
  84. Keelson? Where—why?
  85. Knighthead frame?
  86. Lapped joints?
  87. Launching—how done?
  88. Limbers—limber boards?
  89. Lloyd's—register—rules?
  90. Load line?
  91. Longitudinal bulkheads—framing?
  92. Manholes—where—why?
  93. Margin plates?
  94. Masts—caps—coats—holes—partners—steps—stiffeners— telescopic—wedges? Bending forces—Buckling—failure—material— painting interior—rake—strength of?
  95. Natural draft?
  96. Neutral axis of a beam?
  97. Oil fuel—flash point?
  98. Oxy-acetylene blow pipe—how used?
  99. Paints—what kind used aboard ship—how mixed? Where stowed—How much used? What surface will gallon cover? How long in applying?
  100. Panting—what is it—have you noticed it at sea, etc.?
  101. Peak tanks—fore peak—what stowed there?
  102. Pillars—stations, etc? Their function?
  103. Pintles?
  104. Plating—how thick—how joined?
  105. Portland cement—same as hydraulic—what uses?
  106. Pratigue—what is it?
  107. Propellers—how many—what kind—pitch—motion?
  108. Pressure—steam—in deck lines—main boilers—donkey boilers—water pressure—under bottom?
  109. Pumps—where are hand pumps—what will they throw—do they work?
  110. Quadrant tiller—how connected to steering engine?
  111. Red lead—use of?
  112. Relieving tackles for steering gear—how rove?
  113. Rigging—chain plates—screws—spread of—strength of?
  114. Rivets—in what kind of shear? Pitch—strength?
  115. Rolling chocks (bilge keels)?
  116. Rudder—angle of—balanced, or not—cross head—how supported?
  117. Sanitary tanks—where located—how filled?
  118. Scuppers where located? Are those on deck house tops clear?
  119. Scantlings—what do they include?
  120. Shaft—bearings—stools—tube—tunnel?
  121. Sheathing—wood—copper?
  122. Sheer?
  123. Shell plating?
  124. Skylights?
  125. Sounding pipes—rods—how marked—how used?
  126. Spar deck?
  127. Sponsons?
  128. Steel strength of—tensile—shearing—compressive?
  129. Stem?
  130. Steering gear—learn all about it.
  131. Stem—ordinary—cruiser?
  132. Stoke holds (fire rooms)?
  133. Stress?
  134. Strain?
  135. Stringers? Duty of?
  136. Surveys—purpose—by whom?
  137. Sweating—cork paint?
  138. Tail shaft—where—after gland—what?
  139. Tanks—how lined—where?
  140. Thrust block?
  141. Ventilation—how accomplished—natural or blower?
  142. Vibration?—note it at sea.
  143. Water ballast—part of tank data?
  144. Water line?
  145. Water-tight doors—where—how managed?
  146. Well decks?
  147. Winches?
  148. Yards—if any?
  149. Zincs—what used for—why?