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What is the centre of pressure?
It is the point where the total thrust of pressure could be considered to act.
It is the pressure at the centre of flotation.
It is the pressure in the centre of a specific tank.
It is the part that is least likely to give way to external pressure.
On the air compressor crankcase, there is a small valve that let’s off pressure. What should be done if oil is present with air?
Check the clearance in the bearing.
Overhaul the compressor unit.
Lower the sump oil level.
Which of the following is true when comparing plate type with shell and tube type heat exchangers?
Physically smaller for the same capacity.
The capacity can easily be changed.
Better sealing between liquids in shell and tube.
When cross-flooding arrangements to correct unsymmetrical flooding and excessive heel angles in damaged condition are installed in passenger ship’s, what is the maximum time allowed for equalization?
What is the purpose of the corrugations on a plate heat exchanger?
To increase the surface area.
To increase turbulence in the liquid.
Stiffening on the thin metal sheet.
What is prismatic co-efficient?
Volume of displacement / (midship area × LBP). Also = cb / cm.
A co-efficient for a box shaped vessel only.
The same as block co-efficient.
Which part in this diagram is the high pressure turbine?
Your ship is going astern right-handed propeller as sketched below. How is the ship most likely to react?
The stern will fall off to starboard.
The ship will go straight astern.
The stern will back into the wind.
What is the purpose of performing an inclining experiment or stability test?
To determine the maximum angle of heel, before a ship will capsize.
It is done to find out the GM of a vessel, place the ship’s lightweight and VCG and LCG at this lightweight.
There is no need for such an experiment, because the information it gives may be obtained in various other easy ways.
To test the safe working load of a derrick or crane.
What kind of safety protection is to be weared during a mooring operation?
Safety shoes and boiler suit.
No particular protection necessary.
Helmet, safety shoes, gloves and protecting cloths.
In the event of a fire situation, which of the following actions is the first to be taken?
Call the officer on duty.
Try to kill the fire immediately by use of fire extinguishers or other adequate appliances.
Check all nearby compartments for survivors.
What measures regarding ship stability should be taken in order to make a passenger ship’s able to withstand critical damage?
Maintain sufficient intact stability.
Damaged stability to be increased by weight redistribution.
Avoid overloading the ship.
Damaged stability to be increased by use of water ballast.
Which of the following is a rotary compressor?
Diesel engine charge air compressor.
Emergency air compressor.
Your vessel is to unmoor. Two tugs will assist at the unmooring. Which position and how do you want to use the tugs?
Make the tug fast aft for pulling.
Fast FWD and AFT in centre lead to pull the vessel out from the jetty and make it in position for voyage.
Make the tug fast in centre now fairlead for pulling.
What is the purpose of the control position on an enclosed lifeboat?
It is for sending out distress messages giving the ship’s last known position.
It’s a place reserved for injured persons.
It’s the position from which the boat is steered and the safety systems are operated.
It facilitates entering the names of all persons on-board. This is essential record keeping requirements.
In the shown situation, the bow of your ship is pushed away from the bank. How can you handle this?
Give hard port rudder to get the ship back in the middle of the channel.
Give starboard rudder in order to balance the force of the bank effect and rudder effect.
Do nothing as the ship will handle itself.
Put your engine full astern to stop your ship.
The condenser in a steam plant is where:
Steam is turned back into water.
Water is turned into steam.
Low pressure steam is produced.
What liquid is present in the collecting point at the bottom of the evaporator?
Anyone of the crew who is assigned to watch duties in ports has a number of important tasks to carry out. Which one of the listed tasks has to be included in the watchman’s duties?
Checking the trim of the vessel.
Checking the number of persons entering/leaving the vessel.
Checking the moorings for tightness/slack.
Checking the safe and secure handling of cargo.
How is shallow water effect felt in a vessel?
The vessel has a tendency to turn to port (right turning propeller).
The vessel has a tendency to turn to starboard (left turning propeller).
The vessel becomes sluggish in responding to the rudder.
The vessel responds very quickly to the rudder.
If the fresh water generator is producing water with salinity of 5 ppm and is changed to produce water of 2 ppm, this is mainly achieved by:
Throttling sea water feed supply to the evaporator.
Decreasing sea water cooling to the condenser.
Slowing down production by opening the vacuum breaker valve.
Decreasing production by lowering fresh water supply from main engine.
What formula do you use to determine the GM from an inclining experiment?
GM = KM by d by 1/2 length of plumbline divided by W by length of plumbline.
There is no formula. You simply measure the deflection of the plumbline with a tape measure.
GM = w by distance by length of plumbline divided by W by deflection of the plumbline.
GM = w by length of plumbline divided by W by deflection of the plumbline.
Unconscious casualties who are breathing and whose hearts are beating should be placed in the recovery position. Why is this position so important?
The recovery position makes it easy to maintain any kind of bleeding.
The position ensures that an open airway is maintained.
Because it keeps the heart beating.
The position prevents the patient from falling asleep.
What is the formula to calculate the volume of displacement?
L by 1/2B by draft by freeboard.
How is bank effect felt in a vessel?
The vessel’s stern is pushed away from the nearest bank.
The vessel’s bow is pushed away from the nearest bank.
The whole vessel is drawn in parallel to the nearest bank.
The whole vessel is pushed away parallel to the nearest bank.
What can be used to reduce the effect of the state of sea-waves?
In which way make intake of poisonous material occur?
Skin penetration and skin absorption.
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must be included?
Correct use of oars and sails for survival craft.
Correct donning of protective clothing.
Correct method of revival of casualties.
Correct launching, boarding and clearing of survival craft and rescue craft.
Having a CO2 alarm during normal working hours, what immediate action should be taken?
Get out of the engine room as soon as possible.
Get into the control room.
The two main types of refrigeration system evaporators are called?
Which of the equipment listed is not included in the fireman’s personal equipment? (SOLAS II-2/17.1.1).
Leather safety boots and gloves.
You are berthed with a steady offshore beam wind of 30 knots. This wind suddenly increases to 60 knots. When this happens, the force driving the vessel off-berth will be:
What shall you do if you see a person falling into the sea?
Throw a lifebuoy overboard and report to the bridge immediately.
Turbo alternators perform which of the following tasks?
Supplying electricity on a motorship.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is shut down.
Supplying electricity on steamships when the main boiler is operating.
Supplying electricity from diesel engines.
What is statical stability?
It is the ability of a vessel to return to her initial or upright position, after having been forcibly inclined.
It is the basic stability information a vessel is required to carry by law.
It is the relationship between the moment of a couple and the righting lever.
It is another name for metacentric height.
If you have to carry out hot work close to a smoke detector in the engine room, what precautions should be taken?
Notify Deck officer in charge that a fire alarm may occur.
Notify master, deck officer and engineers in charge. The loop for this special senseor to be switched off and take normal precautions for hot work.
No special precautions except for having a watchman and a fire extinguisher available.
Disconnect the smoke detector.
Which of these requirements regarding lifebuoys corresponds to the SOLAS regulations?
It must have a mass greater than 2,5 kgs.
If fitted with light or smoke signal, it must have a mass less than 4 kgs.
It must have sufficient air.
It must be constructed of inherently buoyant material.
The muster list shall show the duties assigned to the different members of the crew. Which of the given duties do not necessarily have to be included in the muster list?
Preparation and launching of survival crafts.
Manning of fire parties assigned to deal with fires.
Your ship is operating with a right handed propeller. Before coming astern, how should you apply the rudder?
I think the speed is too slow.
What is a pro-metacenter?
This expresses KM as moving away off the centreline at large angles of heel.
It is the ability of a vessel to return to an upright position.
It is the term used to indicate a vessel has a more than adequate GM.
It is just another name for metacentric height.
Which way does the steam pass through in the system?
From the low pressure turbine to the high pressure turbine.
From the supply valve to the high pressure turbine.
From the high pressure turbine to the low pressure turbine.
From the condenser to the low pressure turbine.
What effects does freeboard have on a vessel’s dynamical stability?
As freeboard increases, the range of stability also increases, and this in turn leads to a greater dynamical stability.
If freeboard is greater, then dynamical stability is correspondingly reduced.
It does not have any effect on dynamical stability.
Freeboard and dynamical stability are not related in any way.
When you join a new ship, how are you informed about safety rules, alarm instructions and your own duties in case of an emergency?
By muster lists exhibited in conspicuous places.
By oral instructions by the captain.
By folder distributed to each crew member.
By alarm instructions in all crew cabins.
Which of the following statements regarding steam turbines is NOT true?
From the HP turbine, the steam then goes to the condenser.
The HP turbine is a faster rotating machine than a diesel engine.
The HP turbine is smaller than the LP turbine.
The HP turbine receives the steam before the LP turbine.
How will the ship behave if you have a black out in the situation sketched below?
The wind will not affect your ship whatsoever.
She will continue on course and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to starboard and the speed will slowly drop.
She will turn to port and the speed will drop gradually.
What is initial stability?
It is the stability status of the ship, when first delivered to owners from the shipyard.
It is the vessel’s GM, after completion of loading.
It is the stability of the vessel in her initial position, and is expressed by metacentric height.
It is the vessel’s GM, before commencement of loading.
What is the general emergency alarm signal to be sounded by the ship’s whistle and alarm bells in case of an emergency situation?
Seven short blasts followed by one prolonged blast.
Which one of the listed fire extinguishing medium is most effective against an open oil fire?
Water hammer is a short lasting pressure peak traveling along the pipe. How can it be avoided in a cooling water system?
Operate valves gradually.
Start pump with closed valves.
Start the system with open valves and empty pipes.
How far from the coast is it permitted to use low-pressure evaporation to produce drinking water?
The Disc type oil separator can usually separate water from oil when processing oils between which density ranges?
What is a “Rescue Sub-Centre” (RSC)?
A national search and rescue centre subordinate to an international search and rescue co-ordinating centre.
A unit subordinate to a rescue co-ordinating centre.
A centre for underwater search and rescue operation.
A centre established to assist the main national rescue centre.
What is the BM for a box-shaped vessel in terms of breadth and draught?
Breadth cubed / 12 × draught.
Breadth squared / 12 × draught.
What are “hydrostatic curves” used for in ship calculations?
For hydrostatic pressures on bulkheads.
Obtaining the shape of the body sections.
For pressure at various depths in oil fuel bunkers.
Mainly for trim calculations for predicting end draughts.
What is the reason for too rising cooling water temperature at outlet of individual cylinders?
Compression pressure too low.
Cooling water spaces insufficiently vented.
Fuel pressure of fuel booster pump too high.
What is a “Rescue Unit” (RU)?
A unit ready for search and rescue operations at sea any time of the day.
A unit specializing in search and rescue operations at sea.
A unit composed of trained personnel suitability equipped for expeditious search and rescue.
A permanently manned rescue vessel.
Who is the leader of the lifeboat drill (abandon ship drill)?
The first member of the crew arriving at the survival craft.
The appointed lifeboat commander.
In a distress situation, how many times or for how long should the emergency alarm signal be sounded?
Until all crew members and passengers have reported to their respect muster stations.
Until the signal “risk is over” or the order abandon ship is given.
What is the most dangerous overtaking situation shown on the sketches?
A large vessel overtaking a small vessel with big difference in speed between the two vessels.
A small vessel overtaking a large vessel with a little difference in speed between the two vessels.
A large vessel overtaking a small vessel with a little difference in speed between the two vessels.
A small vessel overtaking a large vessel with big difference in speed between the two vessels.
Serious tube leakage in the air ejector condenser assembly will cause:
The vessel will anchor with pilot onboard. You are the duty officer on the bridge. What is your main duty?
No duty when pilot is onboard.
Follow the master’s order.
Modern high pressure boilers produce which of the following?
Fresh water for drinking.
Which of the following statements regarding main boilers is NOT true?
At least two safety valves will be fitted.
The feed water need not be very pure.
The burners could be at the top firing down.
The superheated steam pressure could be as much as 60 bar.
You are to release the towing wire with forerunner. You have 3 men with you to do the work. How do you do it in a safe way?
With manpower. Two men picking up slack and one man lifts off the eye and let go simultaneously.
Use the winch. Forerunner and wire stopper to pick up the slack and stop the wire. One man operating each. Make the forerunner fast on the bit, releasing the eye of wire and the stopper, lower the wire easy by forerunner.
After heaving on the wire by a forerunner, cut the forerunner and so let the wire free.
Regarding feed water, which of the following statements is NOT true?
Feed water in HP boilers is normally pumped with a single stage centrifugal pump.
It is turned into steam in the boiler.
Steam turns to feed water in the condenser.
What is part number 1 called?
What kind of steam is feeding the astern turbine fitted on the same rotor as the LP turbine?
Reduced superheated steam via a pressure reducer.
Regenerated steam via resuperheater.
Steam from the main steam manifold via manoeuvring stand.
Exhaust steam from the high pressure turbine.
What is part No. 3?
Turbine drive gear train.
Turbine electromagnetic clutch.
What is meant by “synchronism or resonance”?
This is a dangerous condition that occurs when the ship’s still water period and the apparent wave period are equal.
This is stern used to describe pitching and rolling.
This is a term used to describe violent rolling.
This is a situation used to describe gentle rolling.
Why is the maximum pressure in a plate heat exchanger usually limited to about 10 bar?
All the above alternatives.
Possibility of rupturing the plates.
Difficult to seal plates above this pressure.
What is the minimum allowable value for GZ?
The ship’s training manual must contain instructions and information on the life-saving appliances carried onboard. Which of these duties must be included?
Correct donning of life jackets.
Correct use of oars and sails for survival craft.
Correct donning of protective clothing.
Correct use of communication equipment.
What part in this diagram is the low pressure turbine?
How is a vacuum created in the fresh water generator?
By the differential temperature of fresh and sea water.
By pumping or educting out the brine.
By the condensing effect in the condenser.
By the vapour eductor driven by the ejector pump.
What is the absolutely main purpose of fighting a fire onboard?
A water content greater than 2 % is detected in a lubricating oil system. What is the best action to do?
Segregate the oil in a separate tank for continuous purifying.
Boil out the water by increasing the temperature.
Continuous purifying the system with the oil pumps running.
It is no danger, until the water level reach 6-8 %.
In a two stage compressor, you will find pistons with different diameters (one is bigger than the other). Which one of the following statement is correct?
A big piston will deliver dryer air into stage one.
The biggest diameter piston is the stage two piston.
The smallest diameter piston is the stage two piston.
A big piston will give less oil content in the air.
The watertight integrity of a vessel must be intact, when:
Can be relaxed in inshore waters.
Can be relaxed during spells of fine weather.
Which position is the best to stop bleeding from the nose?
Sitting with your head down, holding the nose tightly.
Sitting on a chair, leaning forward with two fingers pressing the nose together.
Laying on the back, holding a wet cold towel on top of the nose.
Laying on the back, leaning the head as much as possible.
After obtaining permission from the duty deck officer, under what conditions would the process of soot blowing the boiler tubes be most beneficial?
When the boiler is firing on high rate.
When the boiler is standing idle.
When the boiler is firing on medium rate.
When the boiler is firing on low rate.