The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities

by Felix Riesenberg

• Cadets, laws, duties, [145]
• Captain, call, [179]
• Cargo, battens, [79]
  • care of, [82]
  • chilled beef, [87]
  • comparison of cargo and manifest, [39]
  • clusters, [74], [75]
  • coal-trimming, [85]
  • coal-ventilation, [85]
  • cotton, [86]
  • damage to, [83]
  • delivery in various districts, [33], [34]
  • diagrams, [75], [84]
  • duty to, [82]
  • explosive, [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]
  • frozen, [87]
  • gear, [75], [80]
  • general, [87], [88]
  • grain, [86]
  • in bulk, [31]
  • inflammable, [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71]
  • kinds, [84]
  • munitions, [89]
  • ore, [85]
  • pilfering, [83]
  • re-export, [31]
  • returns of unlading, [47], [48]
  • special, [88]
  • stowage, [83]
  • ventilation, [84]
  • wet coal, [85]
• Carpenter, [73], [78]
  • duties, [231]-232, [233]
  • stores, [77]
• Cask fenders, [74]
• Casting away vessels, [299]
• Ceiling, [79]
• Chafe, [74]
• Chief Mate, the, [72]
  • coastwise, [162]
  • duties, [73], [74], [75]
  • duties at sea, [100], [101], [102]
  • duties in port, [78]
  • examination, [161]
  • License, [149]
  • qualifications, [72]
  • reports for duty, [72]
  • service, [159]
  • Vessel in stream, [73]
• Charts, pilot, [181]
• Clearance, form of, [20]
• Clothing, exempt from attachment, [267]
• Coal, [35]
• Coaling, [97]
  • gear, [77]
• Cork fenders, [74]
• Cost data, [89]
• Collision, [175]
• Coming alongside, [96]
  • to anchor, [95]
• Complaints re provisions, [12]
• Construction, future, [105]
• Conventions, [269]
• Corporal punishment, [290]
• Crew, [76]
  • failure to produce, [253]
  • ill treatment of, [297]
  • papers relating to, [254]
  • quarters, inspection, [75]
• Crimes, [291]-300

D

• Dangerous conditions, [176]
• Davits, test of, [106], [107]
• Death from negligence, [169]
  • negligence, misconduct, [294]
• Deck, [178]
  • crew, [78]
  • engineer, [73]
  • room, [115]
• Delivery, ports of, [29], App. A
• Desertion, abroad, [268]
  • of foreign seamen in U. S., [268]
• Discharge, [245]
• Discharging, [75]
• Discharge in foreign ports, [258]
  • in foreign trade, [257]
• Discipline at sea, [286]-287
• Distress, vessels in, [48], [49]
• Docking, notes on, [99], [100]
• Docking plan, [98]
• Dodgers, [77]
• Draft, [75]
• Drift lead, [74]
• Dry dock, entering, [98]
  • blue prints, [98]

E

• Engagement, period of, [251]
• Engineer's license, [150]
• Entry and clearance, [18]
  • of merchandise, [27], [38]
  • Ports of, [28], App. A
  • post, [47]
• Examinations, Chief and second mate coastwise, [164]
  • master, [156]
  • original license, [153]
  • Third mate coastwise, [165]
• Exemption, militia duty, [241]
  • of private property at sea, [62]
• Export of arms, [61]
  • merchandise laden for, [32]
  • transfer of imported merchandise, [32]

F

• Fees, [21]
• Fellow-servant clause, [283]
• Fire-fighting equipment, [92]
• Fire lines, [75]
• Fire, protection against, [63], [64], [65]
• Flogging, [290]
• Forgery, [296]
• Freeboard, [83]

G

• Gangway, [74]
• General average, [51]-52
• General libel bond, [57], [58]
• Great Lakes, licenses, [166]
  • crimes on, [300]
• Ground tackle, [94]
• Gun, drill with line carrying, [113]
  • line carrying, [112]
  • tests, [112]

H