Brian-Southampton

Chiefs motor oral 25th Nov 2013 Southampton.
1. You are joining a new vessel, what would you look for, outside the ship, inside the ship and in the machinery space.
2. Venting arrangements for tanks, what tanks have flame arrestor gauze, what’s the danger when ballast tanks are fitted with these gauzes?
3. List certificates carried onboard, he concentrated on the IMDG Code and ship securitycert.
4. What is your prime role as chief?
5. One of your main generator ACB’s fails, how are you going to remove that breaker.
6. You inspect the breaker and it has severe arcing on the contactor surfaces, what does this indicate?
7. What will you look for on the replacement breaker. (KVA) what does this indicate and how is this calculated, what other values are you looking for?
8. What tests can you carry out on the new breaker, he wanted the over current trip via current injection.
9. How do you calculate the fault load current on a 690V system,
10. how do main propulsion syncro motors start to turn.
11. Why do some ships use HV.
12. What would you do if a star delta starter does not change over to delta, what would happen, what could you do to run in that condition.
13. Ship is holed in a ballast tank above the water line, who do you inform, tank needs to be prep’ed for class surveyor how long do you ventilate for ( min 24hrs) tank entry wanted the solas regs for O2 and Hydrocarbons.
14. Hull plate needs to be cropped out , how would you test the repair, (he was looking for VacBox method ?????
15. Going to Drydock, what are your concerns as chief engineer, (he was looking for no slack tanks)
16. What would you prepare before the docking,
17. Why trim by the stern? what is on docking plan?
18. What planned maintenance do you do on Azi pods?
19. You receive Lub oil analysis back for your azi pod, what are you looking for and what does it indicate.
20. Why might it not indicate a failure is soon to occur.
21. What elements would you look for on a main engine sump LO analysis, (looking to list all the elements in a white metal bearing).
22. How would you carry out engine power assessment, what would you compare it to and how would you present the findings to the super?
23. You have a Nigerian second engineer join, what would you check he had with him? looking for CeC and original Ticket, plus safety certs and MCA discharge book.
24. You are writing a set of chiefs standing orders, what would you include and why.
25. How would you know they are being carried out?