[esailor Team]

SECOND CLASS ORAL QUESTIONS

December 2005

1 Your last ship describe

2 Describe taking over the watch at the beginning of the duty period or watch

3 Describe going round the plant – in detail

4 Describe the stern seal, why an oil level in fwd seal

5 Why have a back-up L.O pump on main engine

6 Reason for L.O tests (metals etc)

7 When checking flame in boiler describe colour and reasons for changes in
colour

8 Why is oil not good in observation tank? Where could it come from?

9 What would you do if you suspected water level difference in blr (I.e. gauge glasses reading differently)

10 What would happen if there was no oil in the steering gear? What would you do if you saw this?

11 Why do we do boiler water tests? What are they?

12 The chief engineer is not available (dead) and there is an engine room fire. Take charge detailing all procedures

13 Describe H. expansion foam setting off procedure

14 Describe how to set off Co2 system in engine room

15 Describe your company’s permit to work system

16 Is your ship HV

17 Is HV more dangerous than LV?

18 What voltage can kill you (low voltage)

19 So, why is HV more dangerous?

20 What is ISM and IMO?

21 State sections of MARPOL

22 You send an electrician to work on a HV circuit do you trust him? What do you do before he commences work?

23 You get a new 4th engineer on board, new to the company, how do you treat him?

24 In blr water tests were could impurities come from?

25 What is stability can you as an engineer affects stability?

26 What is GM? Give me details for your last ship

27 Why superheated steam

28 Have you ever heard of wet steam turbines?

29 What is the efficiency of a diesel engine?

30 Brief description the generating sets

31 What does a transformer do, does it change the running frequency at all?

32 Do you know how to change the frequency on the busbars (other than
changing the speed of T/A)

33 How often do you do rounds, especially on a watch-keeping vessel?

34 Describe the blow down procedure, watching water level etc

35 Does the shaft ever stop?

NOTE the examiner started at the top of man 69 and worked his way down until it hit the hour and a half mark.

21 December 2005

1 Background what kind of ships, rank engine

2 Ships UMS or manned

3 UMS routine

4 Emergency generator why two starts how much hydraulic pressure

5 Boiler surveys

6 Depressurise boiler, safety value setting

7 What stops boiler from over pressurising?

8 Surveyor checks on boiler

10 Boiler water tests explain

11 What is caustic embrittlement (a lot of questions on boilers)?

12 What are collision chocks?

13 Difference between pulse and constant pressure scavenging

14 How do you determine power of the engine?

15 Detoom and reasons for exhaust pumps of one unit going down?

16 During rounds you see paint bubbling on middle platform of M/R actions and reasons?

17 What lube oil tests on board explain in detail?

18 Explain results on comp from shore labs

19 Dry-docks a ship what information should be provided to dry-dock?

20 Double bottom tank maintenance full precautions and procedures

21 Certification required for 02 analyser

22 Explain ISM

23 What certificates on board

24 Does classification society issue all the certificates?

25 Surveyor on board asks you to show procedures for pollution emergencies

26 How do you control generator voltage?

27 Explain AVR functions

28 Draw phase angles for busbar and in coming generator voltage (sine waves)

29 Explain need for reverse power trip

30 When 2 genies running parallel carry out a reverse power trip test on one of the generators

31 Plans and procedures present on board for pollution preventives

32 Requirements for I5 ppm pumping equipment

33 Explain about special areas

34 Examiner was not satisfied with auto stop and ship being on route while in coastal waters, informed to study Annex 1 in detail.

15 December 2005

1 Type of ship and engine

2 What is super charging?

3 Difference between constant and pulse type?

4 Thrust block working principle, construction

5 Type of Governor on last ship, how it works?

6 Type of fuel pump on last ship, how it works construction?

7 What prevents engine from stopping, if one of such pumps sieze?

8 How to test fuel injector checks and why?

9 Dismantle B.E bearing, checks on bearing

10 What is risk assessment?

11 Crankshaft deflection, reason for it?

12 Centrifugal pump, working principle, function of wear rings

13 Priming pump, type and construction, how it works?

14 How to measure power of engine? Draw and explain power and draw card

15 Crosshead lubrication system, Man B&W and Sulzer

16 Bearing materials and checks

17 What is Positive displacement pump, how it works?

18 Boiler feed water system, type of boiler

19 What is easing gear?

20 Reason for soot blow and how to do it?

21 How does AVR work?

22 Gene started and found no out put voltage, reason and how to rectify it

23 Circuit breaker got stuck, reason and what to do?

24 Surveyor on board asks you to show procedures for pollution emergencies

25 Ship’s distribution system; its protection

26 What is HRC fuses? Megger test, single phasing?

27 Type of earthing and indicators

28 What is diode and thyristor?

29 Type of battery on ship; its requirement and equipment it supplies to?

30 Construction of double bottom

31 What is centre girder, side girder, bilge strake, knee beam, solid floor, intercostal girder

32 What is ISM and 13 element

33 MARPOL Annex, explain I, IV & VI

34 What are port state, flag state, class society and their function?

35 Junior calls you for boiler low-level alarm, what action will you take reason?

December 2005

1 Type of ship

2 Type of engine

3 Piston removal procedure

4 What all checks will you make on piston?

5 What all clearance should be checked, how and why?

6 What is the material of piston rings?

7 Defects in piston rings, type of piston rings?

8 Possible defects on piston rod

9 How do you verify a crack on piston crown?

10 Checks on cylinder linear

11 How do you calibrate a liner?

12 What is acid corrosion, how the acid is formed, write equation

13 What do you check on tools?

14 What are intrinsically safe lights?

15 What kind of light do you use on gas carriers and tankers and why two, how do you check them?

16 Boiler safety mountings

17 Type of gauge glass and why?

18 What all tests do you carry out for the boiler water, which all chemical should be added and why?

19 Why chloride content increases even when we are using distilled water and how can we maintain the chloride content

20 What safeties are present in starting airline?

21 How does a starting air explosion occur?

22 How does a starting air valve operate?

23 How do you megger test a motor?

24 Draw a distribution circuit and explain

25 What is AVR? How does it operate?

26 How does it help in paralleling two generators?

27 What is a centrifugal pump?

28 How it should be started and why?

29 Can centrifugal pumps be used as high-pressure pump?

30 Why do we have wear ring?

31 What will happen if wear ring clearance increases?

32 How priming is achieved for centrifugal pump explain?

33 Explain the forward section of ship

34 Why it should be so heavily strengthened

35 What is panting? Pounding and pitching

36 What is the function of bulbous bow and how does it reduce the wave making resistance?

37 What are slack tanks?

38 How does free surface affect the stability of the ship?

39 What is meta centric height and how do you calculate?

40 What are the new regulations of SOLAS for bulk carrier?

41 What is ISPS? How it was applied on your ship? Who was the safety officer?

42 What is ISM and what are its salient features?

43 Give some examples of safety and environmental protection policy

44 What is DP? What is his functioning?

45 Can you as second engineer directly contact DP?

46 What is IMO? What is its function?

47 How is the earthing system on ship?

48 What will happen when you have two earth faults? How do you find it?

49 What will you do in case of an electrical fire?

December 2005

1 Type of the ship?

2 Type of the engine

3 Explain Sulzer RND?

4 Explain other type of Sulzer engine

5 What is P.M.S?

6 What all P.M.S you used to carry on; your engine of last ship?

7 How does fuel pump of Sulzer work?

8 How does fuel pump of B & W work?

9 How will you set timing of Sulzer Fuel pump?

10 What is FQS?

11 How will you open big end BRG for survey?

12 What all will you check on the shell and journal?

13 What will you do after boxing up?

14 Explain unit decarb/overhaul?

15 What all calibration are done on piston and why?

16 What all calibration are done on liner and why?

17 If ships FO purifier and clarifier breakdown and no spare on board what will you do (as 2nd Engineer)?

18 Flooding of bilges and bilges have oil, your junior informs you what will be your action?

19 Explain MARPOL and various annexes

20 Explain ISM and ITS salient features

21 What is ISDS?

22 What is PSC?

23 If all the ships documentation and certification are in order should PSC/ inspector do inspection?

24 Explain about MCA?

25 Junior calls you in the event of Genny overload, your action?

26 What are preferential trips?

27 What is the 1st size P. Trips?

28 Your junior calls circuit breaker stuck, your action?

29 How will you meger test alternator?

30 How will you disconnect AVR?

31 What does AVR do? Explain with line diagram

32 Junior call BLR water level low, your action?

33 BLR safeties?

34 BLR tests and dosing?

35 How do you blow down a BLR?

36 How do you blow through a gauge glass?

37 How does battery works and where do they supply power?

38 What are rest hours period?

39 Draw a stable and unstable ship

40 What is angle of LOLL?

41 What is bilge keel?

42 What is flare, strake, camber and sheer?

43 How is rudder connected to rudder stock?

44 Explain about loading survey and hull inspection in dry-dock

45 Draw a cross section of a D.B tank

46 Procedure of a tank entry

47 What is inclination test?

12 December 2002

1 Describe your last ship

2 What certificates does the ship have?

3 Describe your last main engine

4 What if your engine started producing black smoke, what could be the problem?

5 How do you do a main bearing?

6 What will you be looking for after removal of the bearing?

7 What supplies your ships electricity?

8 What controls the gene speed?

9 If you wanted to put another gene on the board and didn’t t’ have a syncroscope or phase plan how would you know it was running in parallel?

10 Ships stability (free surface effect)

11 Describe safety life saving equipment aboard ship

12 Describe fire fighting equipment aboard ship

December 2002

1 What causes H.P trip?

2 How does expansion valve work?

3 What is the relevance of superheat?

4 Where is sending element placed?

5 Why have an equalising line?

6 How do you top up fridge comp with lube oil?

7 What causes LP cut out?

8 What is under cooling?

9 Draw a Co2 bottle, why does it have a dip tube?

10 What is condition monitoring?

August 2004

1 C/E informs that BE bearing inspection has to be done, explain procedure

2 Checks on bearing

3 If one of the nut is not opening

4 Causes of scavenge fires

5 Indication of scavenge fires

6 What is your action

7 Why do you increase cylinder lubrication?

8 After stopping the engine do you keep the engine turning on T/G and why?

9 If in dry-dock what will you check as hull inspection?

10 Checks on propeller/rudder

11 What are the causes of vibration/corrosion on the aft?

12 What is cavitation? Why

13 Effects of cavitation on propeller

14 Checks on rudder

15 What is pintle

16 can you draw it and show me the wear?

17 Why this wear takes place, and what carries the load of the rudder?

18 What does wear on the pintle indicates?

19 What are types of starters and their application on ship?

20 Can you draw the starter (all) and explain and compare?

21 What is a fuse?

22 Where do you find it?

23 If the mark on fuse is missing how will you replace it?

24 Normally what is the capacity of fuse?

25 How will you calculate the amps of fuse for a particular loads?

26 For a 200 amps motor what must be the rating of the fuse?

27 What do you mean by single phasing?

28 If motor is running and single phase has occurred what are the indications?

29 What is hunting lever in steering?

30 Purpose how does it work-hunting gear

31 Can you please draw and explain?

32 What is an expansion v/v?

33 What is purpose of equalising line?

34 How does the system work?

35 Draw the block diagram and P-H diagram and explain

36 What do you understand by subcooling?

37 What do you understand by saturation temp?

38 What do you mean by meger insulation?

39 How do you check insulation for motor?

40 What is the reading you get (1 Mohm)?

41 What if its less than 1 Mohm and more than 1 MN?

42 What if its infinity?

43 What do you understand by ISM what is SMS and all points?

44 What is IPSS and explain?

45 What is plan A and plan B (ISPS)?

46 What are the new regulations which are coming in force?

December 2004

1 Please explain about your background (ship, rank)

2 Generators capacity and cycles/sec 2

3 Explain a M/E job (any) to be done (before arrival and while in dock)

4 Permit to work? Validity? Risk assessment?

5 What checks on lifting equipment?

6 Validity of certification?

7 How would you know the validity (by looking at the lifting equipment how would you know it is valid? How would you compare with certificate?)

8 Cylinder head normal procedure?

9 Hydraulic jacks how do they work?

10 If hydraulic nuts not coming off what would you do?

11 Piston removed what would you check?

12 Purpose of stuffing B&C? How do you access the engine
performance? Draw faulty injector? What is the temperature maintained for purifier?

13 What are safeties on switchboard?

14 Reverse power trip?

15 Over load trip?

16 Explain stroke?

17 Explain bilge keel?

18 ISM and SMS?

19 MARPOL Annex 1?

20 Duties of 2nd Engineer during fire?

21 If fire in engine room what would do as 2nd Engineer?

22 Co2 system?

23 What type of pipe from the bottle to manifold?

24 Criteria for using copper tubes in Engine Room?

25 What is work hardening?

1 What was your last ship?

2 As second Engineer how would you organise a crankcase inspection, what
would you expect person assigned to do?

3 During inspection Personnel notice paint bubbling what are the possible
causes?

4 Symptoms of bacterial attack on lube oil?

5 What actions do you take to try and reduce bacterial attack on lube oil?

6 What was voltage last ship?

7 Why is 110V system safer than 240V?

8 What controls the frequency of an alternator (not looking for governor)?

9 What controls the voltage?

10 Back to mains engines, describe the start air system?

11 What is a blocking valve? What does it do and why is it fitted?

12 How is the air admitted to main engine?

13 What type of start air distributor was fitted?

14 What action do you take if when manoeuvring main engine on local control (engine side) the engine fails to start?

15 What is cause of failure?

16 What is fitted to control air system to remove moisture?

17 What safety devices are fitted to start air manifold on last ship?

18 What type of turning gear was fitted to last ship?

19 Would it stop the shaft from turning if it were struck by something?

20 How would you stop shaft from turning?

21 Is water from a low temperature evaporator safe to drink with out sterilization?

22 What kind of jacket water treatment would you use? What kind don’t you use?
Why not? (Refer to MSD)

23 Describe pre departure steering gear checks (wanted test emergency steering
tested every departure)

24 What type of refrigeration plant did you have on board?

25 How do you test for leaks?

26 Why is R22 dangerous?

27 How does your risk assessment system work?

28 Do you complete a new assessment each time a task is completed?

29 What certification is the ship required to have?

30 What is the load line certificate?

31 What does it cover?

32 How can water enter the vessel undetected and what are the consequences?

33 What is GM?

34 What is the minimum GM required?

35 Where can you find out on board vessel? (Load master trim and stability
tables)

36 Who approves these? (Load master = Lloyds Trim and stability MCA)

37 What are the requirements for load star computers? (There must be two and they must stand alone)

38 Raising a boiler from cold after a survey, how do you do it and what do you check?

39 How do you blow down a boiler gauge glass and what type was your last?

40 If cadets were being bullied how would you know? Do you think they would approach you? How would you find out?

41 If you suspected an engineer was on drugs what action would you take?

42 Co2 systems how is it operated? In the event of a release being ordered what should you do? (Make sure all plant is stopped and ER is fully shut down before release)

43 What other types of fire fighting equipment onboard?

44 What would you use to put out switch board fire and why?

45 What would you use for carbonaceous fire? Could you use water on an oil fire?

46 Enclosed space entry procedure, communications and what to test for?

15 December 2004

1 Describe last ship?

2 What make of engines for main propulsion and power generation?

3 What does turbo charge do?

4 How is efficiency increased? Type of lubrication and bearings?

5 Noise from T/C? (surging) causes?

6 Procedure for removal and safe storage of cylinder head? Checks for cracks

7 Removal of liner procedure and precautions?

8 How is switchboard protected?

9 Circuit breaker maintenance can it be done with live busbarcs?

10 Autotransformer starting?

11 Before connecting to shore supply and with blacked out ship what maintenance is possible on switchboard, which can’t be done otherwise?

12 Bunkering procedure in detail?

13 How fuel is brought from bunker tanks to fuel injectors?

14 Questions on purifiers and clarifiers and temperature of oil for fuel oil and lub oil purifiers?

15 Enclosed space entry procedures?

16 Who is responsible person regarding above?

17 What is GM? How is it calculated?

18 Fire fighting various equipment, emphasis on bulk Co2

19 Questions on LSA type of lifeboats and life rafts, launching of lifeboats?

16 December 2004

1 What is port state control?

2 What is IMO?

3 What is ISM?

4 Tell me about your last ship

5 Tell me about your last engine

6 Removal of bottom end for survey on large slow speed

7 Main bearing clearances on slow speed

8 Deflections

9 LO condition in sump/water/bacteria etc

10 Purifier faults

11 OWS operation – regulations (15ppm/auto shutdown)

12 Oil record book

13 Back to ISM/IMO/SOLAS/code of safe working practices

14 Who is my DPA? Name him

15 Risk assessment/permit to work

16 Fuel system brief run through from bunker manifold to injector

17 Bad combustion

18 Fuel tests

19 Spill timing

20 Peak pressures, doctor diesels

21 P.LA.N

22 Pressures in cylinder at different stages of cycle

23 Jerk type pumps

24 Governors

25 Fire in engine room – 2nd in charge of BA party

26 BA sets – fire station equipment

27 Throat mikes, UHF, UMF.ROPE, for use in fire

28 OMD – crankcase explosions-action on alarm

29 Safety considerations when doing main SW strainer

30 Emergency bilge suction/size/location

31 Hunting gear – steering gene regulations

32 Jumping bar

33 Carrier bearing – lubrication

34 Draw bilge keel

35 Switch board safety devices – looking for pref trips rather than rubber mats etc

36 What is an AVR?

37 Meggar testing

38 Squirrel cage motors

39 Safety devices on donkey boiler

40 What is safety valve set at?

41 Boiler water condition

42 Blow down boiler and why

43 Touched on cadet welfare

44 Touched on non English speaking motor man

45 Prepare for load line survey

46 Viscotherm

1 `What ships and engines, fuel used

2 Bunker procedure, what to do if spill, where procedures found

3 Fuel spec sheet details

4 What is SG, density, why important to know?

5 Safety issues for fuel loading, spill

6 SOPEP – describe where originated

7 Wants to know what ISM is, what sort of timing in it, why/how make a difference to you

8 DPA job, who (give name)

9 Main engine bottom end bearing survey (start with safety procedure, remove head…..)

10 Piston, head inspections, what to look for, how to detect causes

11 Fuel injector operation, overhauling

12 Lifting gear, certification checks

13 Scavange fires, causes, indication, what to do, why Co2 not so good for smothering fire

14 Procedure for inspection after, what to look for

23 December 2003

1 Where do you get the syllabus for class 2?

2 Why tanker has lesser freeboard compared to bulk carrier?

3 Explain the effect of slack tanks

4 What is inclination experiment angle of loll, meta centric height,

5 gravity, until of buoyancy etc

6 What is hydrostatic balance loading?

7 Draw and explain IG system?

8 What is deck seal and explain with diagram all these types?

9 Draw and explain flammable range diagram?

10 Overhaul of piston (imp: mention the locking tool for the cylinder liner prior to lifting the piston)

11 Draw and explain indicator cards?

12 Explain what will you do if you have scavenge fire and vessel on pilotage?

13 Meggar test?

14 Continuity test?

15 Where on ship do you find double insulated motors?

16 What is ISM? How is it applicable on your ship?

17 Explain 13 elements of ISM?

18 What is the latest marpol annex to be included?

19 Latest MARPOL annex to come into force?

March 2004

1 What was your last ship? Type of engine etc?

2 Give the construction and materials of engine i.e. bedplate, A frame, entablature, the rods including chocking arrangement

3 What do you test externally of bedplate (holding down bolts)

4 Explain crankcase inspection

5 Explain construction of crankshaft

6 Overhaul of piston

7 Piston defects, liner defects, rings

8 Liner calibration, CIS deflection

9 ISM, 13 elements

25/07/06 PASS

1 Type of ship/engine/generator/boiler (main B & W)

2 Safety precautions to be taken before M/E overhaul

3 What is risk assessment, how to carry out

4 Objectives of risk assessment

5 Cross head bearing removal for survey

6 Draw location and how crosshead bearing is fixed

7 What determines efficiency of engine?

8 Why Turbochargers?

9 Properties for good ignition

10 Design of fuel pump

11 How to adjust timing quantity in fuel pump

12 What is V.I.T.? Objectives/adjustment of V.I.T

13 Difference in lub oil of crankcase and cylinder

14 Properties of crankcase lub oil? Why detergent?

15 Tests with crankcase lub oil

16 Water found in crankcase lub oil, your actions

17 Will you let the engine running with high water content?

18 How to pressure test lub oil cooler

19 Design feature in lub oil cooler for expansion? Draw

20 Principle of operation in purifier

21 Common faults in purifier

22 Objective of interface/gravity disc

23 Draw refrig. cycle

24 Safety features in refrig. cycle

25 What prevents liquid being compressed in refrig. compressor

26 What is ISM? Key elements

27 What is ISPs? Levels of ISPs

28 Marpol annex 1, VI

29 You receive fuel injector, nozzle with no S no stamped will you still use it? Related to annex VI)

30 Enclosed space entry permit

31 How to make entry in enclosed space

32 Does your company provide any procedures for all jobs, where on board you can find them (SSM manual)

33 Fixed fire fighting system on board? (C02)

34 Procedure for releasing

35 Inspection/maintenance to be carried out on them

36 What is work hardening?

37 What type of pipe between C02 bottle and E/R?

38 Safeties on main switchboard

39 Objective/operation of preferential trips

40 why do we earth? How do we earth?

41 How is generator earthed?

42 How are windings of generator connected? (Star)

43 How do we megger a motor? Acceptable value of m

44 Precautions before motor overhaul

45 How to check circuit is dead

46 How to check voltage across terminals of motor

25/07/2006 PASS

1 Type of ship/Gross tonnage of ship

2 Type of engine (Sulzer 8 RND 90M)

3 Preparations as 2nd Engineer for unit Decarb next port

4 Arrival port unit Decarb

5 Entry procedure into Crankcase

6 Operation of cylinder head-hydraulic jack

7 Why restriction in hydraulic pressure in jack

8 If the nut does not open at 620 bar – what you do

9 If the nut does not open even at 110% more Pr. What you do

10 Safety precautions before taking piston out

11 Inspection on piston removed

12 Draw and explain piston ring groove

13 Why there is an undercut in groove

14 What the piston ring is made up of

15 What it is coated with and why

16 What the liner is made up of

17 Comparing liner and piston rings, which one wears more

18 Explain types of piston ring clearances and why

19 Explain hydrodynamic lubrication between liner and piston

20 What are all the defects found in liner

21 How Clover Leafing occurs

22 How acidic corrosion occurs in liner

23 Why maintain jacket temperature

24 Draw and explain 2 stroke cycle (with angle

25 Explain more about fuel injection

26 Operation of fuel injector

27 What governs proper combustion in a unit?

28 How atomisation of fuel oil occurs

29 Draw and explain fuel nozzle

30 How the needle lifts in fuel nozzle

31 What is the purpose of interface in F.O. purifier?

32 Interface depends on what factors

33 Draw interface in fuel oil purifier

34 What are all the instruments in Engine Room – to be calibrated and why?

35 During manoeuvring main engine does not start (expecting answer related to failure in auto valve)

36 why need a phosphate residual content in boiler

37 Explain the procedure of boiler blow down

38 Draw a refrigeration cycle and explain

39 Explain the procedure of boiler blow down

40 What is the refrigeration used (R22)

41 Whether safe to release to atmosphere

42 How do you remove it form the system

43 Explain the function of expansion valve

44 What governs the flow of refrigerant through expansion valve?

45 What’s filled in the phial tube of expansion valve

46 What are all the reasons for high pressure cut out

47 Safety devices in generators

48 Purpose of under volt

49 Safety precautions before opening a motor for overhaul

50 Purpose of megger and how it works

51 How it is connected for testing

52 Explain risk assessment

53 Fire in deck store (act as 2nd Engineer)

54 What are all the checks you do in a breathing apparatus?

55 Mandatory minimum capacity of breathing apparatus air bottle

56 Procedure of entering enclosed space

57 What do u test in enclosed space, how do you test and what is the safe entering condition

58 Purpose of work permit and how long it is valid for

59 Draw and explain Bilge Keel

60 What is strake and explain its structure

61 What is bending moment and shear stress?

62 How hogging and sagging can be prevented

63 What is Meta centric height?

64 What is free surface effect?

65 What is ISPS?

66 Various security levels of ISPS

67 Restricted Zones in ship (related to ISP)

68 What is ISM and how it operates?

69 Certificates related to ISM

70 How documentation is followed on board

01/08/06 PASS:

1 Type of ship

2 Explain the arrangement on your ship (machineries and types)

3 Explain M/E lube oil system

4 Type of cooler and filter

5 What if purifier temp was dropped to 70°C (lub oil purify)

6 M/E lube oil properties

7 Take out main bearing for survey

8 How much you lift the crankshaft at

9 Type of boiler E what tests carried out on water

10 What you look for when taking round on boiler platform

11 How do you know that steam is free of water?

12 On fridge system: type of oil and properties

13 Is it safe to use R22 Why?

14 Enclosed spaces on the ship other than usual (was looking for fridge room)

15 What is an enclosed space?

16 What would you expect on battery room (hydrogen gas;

17 Protection on main switchboard

18 How the ammeter is connected to measure current

19 What controls your frequency?

20 What controls the voltage?

21 How can you find stability?

22 How do you measure it?

23 What are the minimum stability requirements?

24 What is minimum GM value?

Class 2 Orals Pass 14/12/06

1 Give me a brief summary of your last two ships, type, your rank and engines

2 How do you carry out performance monitoring of the engines (main and auxiliary)

3 Sketch an indicator card and draw card, explain what is shown?

4 Show on the sketch the expected curve for faculty/incorrect combustion

5 Take me through your analysis of the above problem, as 4th engineer

6 How do you check timing on fuel pumps – Sulzer and jerk type?

7 Applying the above card to an auxiliary engine what other possible symptoms might be present?

8 why is black smoke a bad sign? (poor combustion + Marpol annex VI)

9 What is ISM?

10 Who are the IMO?

11 What is/are port state control? What can they demand to see?

12 As 2nd, How do you know that your crew are correctly qualified?

13 What is STCW 95?

14 Dry docking, what information does the ship need to send ahead to the dry dock?

15 What limits your vessel’s store supply demand?

16 How do you test a high voltage main circuit breaker?

17 Explain to me how the ships hull is protected against corrosion?

18 How do sacrificial anodes work?

19 During a dry dock inspection you notice pitting on the propeller pass, where could this have come from?

20 (more auxiliary questions, should have put these down earlier)
pulled an auxiliary engine piston for survey explain what you are looking for.

21 What causes liner glazing? What does micro seizure look like?

22 How do you decide on the condition of liner/rings for reuse?

23 What is the anti – polishing ring for?

24 Your ship has hit a submerged object the engine room is flooding what do you expect your crew to do?

25 Name some other engine disasters

26 How do measure CO2 content in a multi bottle CO2 system?

Class 2 Orals 15/12/2006

1 What ships I did (especially details on last two)

2 Two stroke and four stroke timing diagram draw and explain

3 How would you find out if the timings are right (4 stroke)

4 What would you do if the timings are wrong? (for fuel, exhaust and inlet v/v’s)

5 How was the reversing effected? (4 stroke)

6 How would you change the position of cams (incet & exh)

7 How would you balance a main engine? (4 stroke)

8 How can an individual cylinder exhaust temp go high?

9 What ale checks on the performance (periodically taken)?

10 How is improper combustion and after burning effect atmosphere?

11 What is Marpol Annex VI?

12 What are the other Annexes?

13 Where does Marpol come from?

14 Who is IMO and what is ISM?

15 Why do we have to follow regulations of IMO?

16 What are the functions of ISM?

17 What is solas? Where does it come from?

18 What safety equipment on board?

19 What fixed fire installations on board? How it works, checks

20 If you have a fire on board your vessel as a 2nd Engineer what will you do (responsibilities)

21 When to use fixed installations?

22 What is centre of gravity, buoyancy, meta centre?

23 How can the C of G change?

24 Think of a scenario that your ship had a collision with some submerged object and had hull damage before your collision bulkhead. As a second engineer what would be your actions to the situation?

25 How is the thrust taken up?

26 Location of thrust and intermediate brgs

27 Tilting pad arrangement, what design features

28 Stern brg details

29 Lubrication of thrust block how checked?

30 L.O analysis report from shore contains contamination

31 How can it get contaminated

32 Gearing arrangement, walkan coupling draw 2 explain

33 How gear lubricated when engine not running? Whats the purpose?

Class 2 Orals Pass 14/12/06

1 Type of ships/engines/rank sailed

2 IMO, ISM, how does it affect 2nd Engineer? Check lists

3 Log books, records, company manual, COWSP

4 Beasted on classification societies/surveyors

5 Port state control

6 Marpol – State Annexes how they affect 2nd Engineer

7 Particularly 1, 6 & 4 sewage

8 Sewage plant – state efficient separating problems

9 Lack of oxygen/incompatible chemicals, entering bypassing, cleaning re-instating

10 Emissions – Annex 6, low sulphur fuels, areas, fuel analysis

11 L.O analysis – water content, bearing metal in L.O? Crankcase inspection

12 L.O contamination – biological – how to prevent

13 Boilers – chlorides, alkalinity, TD’s how to control boiler chemicals dosed (not trade names)

14 Safety valves – setting

15 Boiler survey – who does what 2nd to present boiler to surveyor

16 Stability GM, hogging/sagging

17 Hull rupture, how GM affected

18 Prop wear down

19 Jump clearance on rudder

20 Rudder leaking – air test water to long to do

21 Risk assessment/permits to work

22 High voltage – define – safeties in place earthing how do you check its charged?

23 Very heavy on ISM Annexes of Marpol, classification societies, surveyors, port state told me to brush up on control, permits to work, boilers and doseage chemicals (not trade names) naval architechture.

Class 2 14/12/06 Passed

1 Type of machinery on last ship?

2 Explain machinery for unit overhaul

3 What checks carried out on piston?

4 What checks carried out on liner?

5 What checks carried out after engine has been boxed up?

6 What would be your course of action if there was a reversing failure whilst on bridge control?

7 What pressure do your boilers run at?

8 How could you tell if any of the riser tubes had pin holes in them?

9 Type of safety valve on boilers?

10 What other types of boiler safety valves are there?

11 Explain a high lift safety valve

12 Explain the setting procedure of a boiler safety valve?

13 How are fuel samples taken during bunkering?

14 What is a Marpol sampling?

15 How long is it kept on board?

16 Why do you have Marpol samples?

17 What are the regulations for steering gear on tankers?

18 Type of rudder on last ship?

19 Other types of rudder and advantages

20 What is a bulbous bow?

21 How does it increase fuel efficiency?

22 What type of fixed fire fighting in Engine Room?

23 Advantages of bulk over bottles?

24 Advantages of bottles over bulk?
25 Explain ‘Intrinsically safe’

26 What type of emergency power?

27 What is supplied?

Class 2 18/12/06 Pass

1 Last 2 ships and machinery

2 Draw 4 stroke diagram

3 How to check fuel timing

4 Checks on camshaft

5 Where is wear likely to be found and why

6 What else do you look for?

7 Crank case inspection

8 Where can metal come from?

9 Explain a metal partial detector

10 Explain ISM who is it?

11 If something happens to someone how do you protect yourself from blame?

12 If an oil spill occurs accidentally how do you protect yourself?

13 What is Marpol what does it do?

14 Explain IMO who is it

15 What is a thrust bearing on a 4 stroke generator

16 On a normal set up how is the thrust bearing attached to the ship?

17 What is difference between high and low voltage

18 How is voltage produced and how is it altered?

Class 2 29/3/07 Pass

1. Difference between 4 stroke and 2 stroke?
2. What is the purpose of a cross head and why use it?
3. What are the structural differences between med speed and X-head?
4. What are the properties of the oil used in a med speed and X-head engine?
5. What is the importance of maintaining proper S.W temps?
6. Sketch and describe a J.W system showing how temp is controlled
7. How is it controlled? (P.I.D Control)
8. What is the difference between starting a med speed and slow speed?
9. Describe a starting air system, how it works and safety features.
10. What do you not want to happen with a start air comp? (oil carry over)
11. What will happen if oil is carried over?
12. How do you remove a piston from an X-head engine?
13. What will cause the piston to jam?
14. How do you know a bilge pump is pumping? (without looking at well)
15. Describe how and O.W.S works
16. Safety features of O.W.S i.e. 15ppm, 3-way U/U, auto stop
17. Regulations stating use of O.W.S
18. How do you repair a leak on a S.E pipe?
19. How is the vessel protected if a compartment foods?
20. What measure would you take in the event of a flood?
21. What are the features of a bilge system to ensure flooding does not spread to other compartments?
22. What is free surface affect?
23. What happens when you lift a heavy load off the deck?
24. What happens to the centre of gravity?
25. What is I.M.O?
26. What codes come under I.M.O? (Looking for ISM)
27. What is I.S.M, how does it work?
28. What maintenance routines are carried our on borders?
29. Boiler safety devices?
30. How do you know it is running efficiently?
31. What would be a procedure for inspecting a boiler drum? (treat as enclosed space)
32. What training would you give a new person joining?
33. What is port state control?
34. How do you find out the power of a med speed engine?
35. How do you determine if the power of a med speed engine?
36. How do you determine if the power and efficiency is dropping off?
37. How do you adjust the amount of fuel injected?
38. Purpose of earth monitoring?
39. Trace and earth fault.
40. How do you test insulation?
41. How does a megger work?
42. How do you determine good fuel inspection?
43. How does fuel atomise?
44. When does fuel in section occur?
45. What do you test before boiler is put back into service after maintenance? (Flame eye)

Class 2 16/04/2007 PASS

1. Type of ship, engines etc.

2. Draw a 4 stroke and 2 stroke timing diagram(s).

3. Draw a fuel pump showing VIT and explain.

4. Draw a squirrel cage induction motor and explain.

5. What is governor droop?

6. Draw a recovery pattern for governor droop.

7. What can effect the recovery time? (was looking for mechanical as well as electrical)

8. Your have two generators on the board. One is producing 600A with the other producing 900A
What is wrong? (AVR Balance)
What would I do about it? (Manual Trim)

9. Start air: Engine wont start from bridge, control room or engine side. All components of the air system are correctly set etc. What is wrong? What would I do? (looking for auto valve sticking)

10. Draw a cross section of a shell bearing

11. Describe the materials it is made of.

12. Describe faults that occur with shell bearings and checks done when surveying.

13. State faults with LD system that could lead to a poor oil film.

14. In depth questions on Class A and Class B bulkheads. (He wanted more information than there is in the notes, materials used for insulation etc??)

15. Checks done to fire extinguishers, all types. (again in depth, he wasn’t happy that I didn’t know what weight a CO2 canister should be)

16. Have I read the MSN from a year ago about an extinguisher blowing up and killing?
NO!
Why not? What do I think happened?

Class 2 18th April 2007 Pass

1) Complete a risk analysis form for Welding of engine room floor plates and explain risks and counter measures.

2) Draw a T joint weld, list possible weld defects with reasons.

3) How can you alter the current on an arc welding machine, draw the transformer and explain what happens when you turn the dial.

4) Why is stitch welding used on stringers, draw a stringer (he was looking for bit on the end).

5) Why would you use a corrugated bulkhead, where would you find this.

6) Low exhaust temp on one unit, explain your actions and possible reasons for low temp.

7) Draw an injector.

8) Explain how to change an injector

9) Describe what checks you make when overhauling injector.

10) What could be wrong if injector only sprays out one side, (nothing!!!!)

11) What are the effects of high vanadium in the fuel.

12) How can water enter the combustion space

13) Draw an explosimeter. (He was looking for the electrical diagram wheatstone bridge)

14) Where else can you find a wheatstone bridge

15) Where would you find a zenner barrier

16) How are large electrical appliances made safe in hazardous locations

17) What makes an electrical motor explosion proof (he was looking for labarynth glands

18) how does a labarynth gland dissipate heat. (Nozzle reduced gas temp as it accelerates)

19) How do you prepare a boiler for survey.

20) What do you look for inside the furnace

21) How do you repair refractory

22) What do you look for in the steam drum

23) Where is corrosion most likely to occur in the steam drum.

24) How do you prevent corrosion in the boiler

25) What water tests do you do on the water.

2nd Class 17.04.2006 Fail

1) Draw M/E showing A-frame and bedplate
2) How A-frame attached to bed plate
3) Draw detail drawing of bed plate
4) Give form for Risk Assessment for C/Case inspection
5) What checks to be carried our in C/Case inspection?
6) How does bottom end bolts get elongated?
7) What are the forces acting on it?
8) Con rod found bluish in colour. What does that show?
9) Reasons for bearing overheating?
10) Draw the rod – how it is attached to the engine
11) Why it has to be close
12) How is the Crank Shaft manufactured?
13) Explain all 3 types of deficit
14) Draw and explain where they are welded (Crank Shaft)
15) Why should it be welded there?
16) Draw a vector diagram showing the forces acting on the Crank Shaft
17) How is the thrust transmitted to be plate?
18) Water found in L.O. What are your actions?
19) Draw and explain a L.O purifier
20) Explain working of alcap purifier
21) Draw and explain de sludging mechanism
22)How does the transducer work?
23) Compare the transducer fitted in a purifier and the one in OWS
24) Draw and explain 15ppm monitor
25) Main S.W pump not starting. What are the reasons?
26) How will you check a fuse?
27) How to test continuity of winding
28) What are the safeties? before you carry out the test?
29) How to check continuity of wires
30) Explain about thyrister?
31) How many fuses present in the pump starter panel?
32) What are the 2 small fuses for?
33) Draw and explain CO2 system
34) Not the old system, draw the modern one
35) Why non-return valve fitted on pilot??
36) What maintenance do you do on the CO2 system?
37) What are you actions if you have found one bottle corroded?
38) How do you measure the amount of gas in the bottle?
39) Where do you find the weight of CO2 bottle?
40) f ultrasonic level indicator not working what will you do (not weighing)?
41) How do you test the CO2 alarm?

2nd Class 18.04.2006 Fail

1. Risk assessment form for O/H of main S.W. cooling P/P
2. Explain all the points
3. Draw centrifugal P/P
4. How in 2 stage centrifugal P/P impellers are arranged in series and parallel
5. Draw and explain centrifugal P/P (p/ stage) in series and parallel
6. Purpose of wear rings
7. Show suction and discharge in all the drawings of centrifugal P/P
8. How will you overhaul main S.W P/P if suction v/v is leaking?
9. How will you overhaul main S.W P/P if discharge v/v is leaking?
10. How is the impeller is supported
11. Draw ball bearings
12. Differentiate between ball and roller bearing
13. Draw mechanical seal
14. What are the materials used for spring and seals?
15. Draw and explain manoeuvring diagram
16. How stop cylinder functions
17. What type of exhaust does Sulzer RND have. Explain it
18. What type of scavange Sulzer RND is having
19. Draw Sulzer RND cylinder showing inlet and exhaust connections
20. Draw NRV fitted in scavange space
21. From where you will you get risk assessment from?
22. What other forms are available?
23. How will you check the continuity of circuit breakers?
24. What are the safety precautions?

2nd Class 25/4/07 FAIL

1 Sketch a 4 Stroke Timing Diagram?

2 How do you balance an engine?

3 What is Diesel Knock?

4 How do you remove an exhaust valve on your ships main engine?

5 What do you look for?

6 What causes a burnt valve?

7 How do you overhaul an exhaust valve?

8 Why should you not use lapping paste?

9 How do you remove an exhaust valve seat/ how is it fitted to the cyl
head?

10 Sketch a Propeller Blade?

11 What is the pitch of a Propeller Blade?

12 Sketch a Swept Propeller Blade

13 Why is it that shape?

14 How can you tell if vibration in propeller blade?

15 Sketch an Alternator

16 What is the purpose of the AVR?

17 What is a Thyristor?

18 As 2nd how would you prepare to enter a ballast tank to carry out
welding?

19 Explain/Carry out a Risk Assessment

20 What is the difference between a Hazard and a Risk? (COSWP)

21 How do you test the atmosphere?

22 O2 Analyser reads 23% O2 what you do?

GREENOCK 23 JULY 2007 CLASS 2 ORALS PASS

1 Types of ship and types of engine
2 Draw 2 stroke timing diagram and explain fully
3 Explain reason and purpose of VIT, why and when
4 Main engine unit overhaul complete process (planning + job)
5 Draw indicator diagram normal and for too early injection
6 Why and how test hydraulic gear
7 Crankcase entry, enclosed space entry procedure
8 Exhaust valve air spring failure, will valve hammer?
9 Draw and explain hydraulic jack (cylinder head stud)
10 Procedure if not loose at stated pressure?
11 Head removal and liner safety procedures
12 Draw stuffing box cross section and explain
13 Draw section through scavenge manifold
14 Explain auxiliary boiler and T/C entry/operation/reed valves
15 Explain piston removal and survey items (measurements and clearances)
16 Explain liner calibrations and survey items
17 Explain ISM
18 Explain engine room ISM implementation
19 Explain documentation relating to ISM and survey items
20 Generator not going on board why?
21 Action if no excitation and excitation method
22 Large motor starting methods
23 Draw and explain star-delta starting
24 Star-delta interlocks and safeguards
25 Cargo hold smoke detection method and explain
26 Cargo hold fire fighting system
27 Action in event of cargo hold smoke alarm
28 Co2 system release locations
29 Exhaust valve overhaul valve/seat machining and measuring
30 Exhaust valve seat material
31 Piston ring groove material and why

PLYMOUTH 27/11/07 CLASS 2 ORALS PASS
1. What is ISM ; DOC ; Safety Management Systems ?
2. What do you do in a hull survey ?
3. If anodes are missing fully. What is wrong ?
4. How will you check tailshaft wear down ?
5. What do you check on rudder ; propeller ?
6. How will you motivate your crew as 2nd Engineer ?
7. How will you assign jobs ?
8. What are rest hour regulations ?
9. In a drill – duties as a 2nd Engineer ?
10. How do you make sure junior Officers are getting trained ?
11. How do you check insulation in a motor ?
12. What are the maximum and minimum values ?
13. How will you remove cylinder head of a 4-stroke engine ?
14. What maintenance do you carry out ?
15. What clearances do you check ?
16. What are the valves made of ?
17. Why are two concentric springs given with rotocap ?
18. How does the vistocap work ?
19. How do you assemble the rotocap ?
20. How is the fire integrity maintained on a ship ? (looking for A60)
21. In a boiler furnace inspection ?
22. Mountings on boiler ?
23. Water tests that are carried out – and why ? with reasons ?
24. In a compressor, what are the safeties given ?
25. How do you know refrigeration system is working properly ?
26. What are the causes if frosting is present in TEV ?
27. How will you find out if condenser tubes are cracked ? –
• What action will you take ?
• How will you rectify ?
28. What is primary and secondary explosion ?
29. What will you do in a scavenge fire ?
30. Enclosed space entry procedure ?
31. How will you test the rudder ? jumping clearance ?
32. Certificates on board ?
33. If there is a non-conformity and you report to C/E and Master and they do not do anything. What will you do?
34. What all tests do you carry out with lubricator oil ?
35. How do you conduct the tests ?
36. What is TBN ?
37. Difference between oils used in 4-stroke and 2-stroke ?
38. T/C gas side and compressor side cleaning ?

GREENOCK 18/12/07 PASS

1 Entry into enclosed space

2 Name some enclosed spaces

3 Prepare H.O. service tank for survey

4 Maintenance on main switchboard

5 Boiler containing oil——- Remedy

6 Refrigeration chamber, associated dangers

7 Stability of ship (was looking for 13 elements of stability)

8 Checks done prior to dry docking

9 Information given to dry dock staff before dry dock

10 Shore connection

11 Can you connect to 410volt 50hz in 440v 60hz ship

12 Certificates and issuing authorities

13 Nox and Sox

14 How do you prove to state control that vessel complies with Nox and Sox regulations

15 Annexe I How to discharge

16 Annexe VI Complete regulation

17 Damage stability of car carrier (I had sailed on car carrier)

18 Bulk CO2 system and location

19 How was CO2 release activated

20 Safety life saving apparatus onboard ship

21 Explain smoke tube boiler

22 How was boiler pressure controlled

23 How does Fresh Water Generator work

24 Dangers due to FW produced in FWG

25 FW treatment

26 Types of machinery onboard ship

27 As 2/E how to train cadets

28 ILO regulation and its purpose

29 ITF purpose

GREENOCK 19/12/07 PASS

1 Ship type, Rank etc.

2 Main engine, Auxiliary Engines, Boilers etc.

3 IMO what is it.

4 ISM what is it and how does it affect you as second engineer.

5 SMS, DPA, who is your DPA.

6 SOLAS, STCW 95, MARPLOL.

7 STCW95, what does it mean to you as second engineer.

8 All MARPOL annexes.

9 Load line rules, survey, engineers involvement.

10 Name certificates onboard, PSSC what is involved.

11 Classification society, survey, different types.

12 Indicator and out of phase diagrams for large slow speed two stroke engines.

13 Show me how to use card to calculate Indicated Power with and without Planimeter

14 Draw cards for early injection, late injection, after burning

15 How would you asses the performance of medium speed 4 stroke.

16 How would you balance a 4 stroke engine.

17 If one unit had early injection.

18 Why would peak pressure be high, and what about load on bearings and crank shaft

19 Main bearing removal.

20 Why take deflections, How to take deflections, precautions.

21 Construction and operation of an alternator

22 AVR how does it work.

23 How does alternator supply bus bars.

24 Circuit breaker protection defects.

25 4th calls you to say main breaker will not come out, your actions.

26 Types of motors and starters.

27 How to take insulation resistance measurement

28 Why is insulation resistance important?

29 What affects insulation resistance?

30 4th calls you and says loud noise and feels like vessel hit something, vessel starting to list, Your actions.

31 If no water obvious, (looking for DB tank)

32 Stability, GM, effects of flooding on G.

33 Dry dock, what information is provided to the dry dock and why.

34 How is the vessel supported in dry dock?

35 As second engineer what work would you ensure gets done?

36 What checks on propeller?

37 What checks on rudder?

38 How to measure wear down of carrier bearing and shaft.

39 Back to the rupture of the double bottom tank, describe the type of repair, who would oversee this type of repair.

Class 2 Combined Exams. Pass Aberdeen 21-12-2007

1) Kinds of ships. LNG carrier
2) Dry docking preparations and checks need to be carried as a 2/E
3) How will inspect a F O sett and service tank in dry DOCK.
Wants to know about tank cleaning and preparation Full procedure, risk assessment, COSWP, enclosed space entry, work permit
4) if you find a crack in the tank how would you deal about it.
5) What about O2 meter and combustible gas detector,
6) Did you have it on board, what is normal and what is the flammable range
7) How you know your detector is showing the correct reading
8) What are the precautions and checks when carrying out hot work permit.
9) How would other persons know that hot work is going on: stress about daily work plan and discussing about jobs so everyone come to know what jobs they are being carried out
10) How often will you check the atmosphere? Stress about frequently checking atmosphere
11) How will come to know is the person working inside is normal.
12) Bunkering ? full explain,
13) Fuel oil testing onboard
14) How will you carryout compatibility test. What will happen If two fuel oils are mixed.
15) Turbine gearing? Inspection, precaution faults, what all you check for.
16) How you know the lub oil condition. Onboard test and shore test
17) How can water get contaminated in lub oil in steam ship and how to deal with
18) Lub oil test on board, how you carry out
19) In motor ship from where you can get water contamination.
20) Lub oil cooler how can leakage occur and how you rectify it
21) General idea about boiler water testing and analysis in water tube and auxillary tube boiler
22) What is your action if your drain inspection tank is with oil
23) What you will do and how to rectify it/
24) In water tube boiler how it is dealt with, told him we have oil content monitor for water tube boiler contaminated drain.
25) Water tube boiler and fire tube boiler survey? What precaution and what checks
26) MARPOL all annexes
27) Annex 1 special areas
28) Can you pump out bilges in Aberdeen
29) How do you deal with your bilges and OWS
30) ISM ?
31) DPA? What does he do, what is his important duties. – To implement ISM and SMS systems
32) Annex 6, what it is ?
33) Special area for sox seca
34) How you will prevent air pollution from SOX in Seca Areas.

2nd Class 21/01/08 FAIL

1 What kind of ships & engines

2 What type of fuel, tell about bunkering
(was looking for fuel spec, sheet details – amount of Sulpher, MARPHOL annex VI)

3 What do you do with fuel once onboard (from bottoms to engines)

4 Power at switchboard

5 What controls frequency What controls voltage

6 How does 440V get to 220V

7 Which is more dangerous, why

8 What happens / what is danger with an earth – what if two faults

9 How does a synchronising scope work, what does it show

10 What type of steering

11 Tell how it works – from bridge to rudder

12 How many locations can it be controlled from (I forgot DP panel)

13 Source of power

14 Number of breakers

15 How is CPP controlled & from where

16 Enclosed space procedure

17 What is Risk Assessment (what risks?)

18 What all do you check for – O2 level limit, hydrocarbon limits

19 Why is R22 dangerous

20 On an inspection of the hull it is found to be damaged, where would you find info on hull plate thickness
21 Load Line Survey, Port State Control (what is in them)
22 Load Line Certificate, safe load, min. freeboard
23 Engineers are responsible for stability know it –

Greenock 10/5/08 Pass 1 hour 45

1 Ships I have sailed on
2 Main propulsion
3 How do you reverse the propulsion motors (Diesel electric)
4 What sewage plant did I have
5 Draw and explain sewage plant
6 What certificates must the ship carry
7 Who is the Designated person ashore
8 What is he responsible for
9 What is your duties as second engineer
10 You take over a ship as second describe your actions and what do you find out first (Safety procedures black out, flooding, location of bilge
11 Asked lots of questions on ISM, SMS, Marpol, Solas, isps
What areas are out of bounds for the crew and passengers under isps (engine room and bridge)
12 How does ISM affect you as a second engineer
13 Annex 6 air pollution how do we comply
14 Sulphur content of fuel 4.5 % and below 1.5 % in special area
15 What is GM?
16 Minimum value of GM (150 mm)
17 Draw GM on a diagram
18 If the engine room flooded what does that do to GM
19 Third calls you and tells you there is flooding describe your actions
20 Operation of the bilge injection valve and what maintenance do you do on it
– Can you pump bilges directly overboard in the case of flooding
21 Fire in galley describe your actions as a second
22 Door entry procedures for entering fire
23 Asked about fixed fire fighting systems hi fog, foam, co2 etc
24 Asked about how I would organise the planned maintenance for the engine room
25 What are SI, MSN,MIN, MGN,
26 MGN 69 what information does it have?
27 Where do SI s come from
28 Regulations for building ships (SOLAS)
29 Hydrostatic releases what are they attached to and how they work
30 What are EPRIBS
31 What life saving appliances does your ship have
32 Permits to work how they are issued and who by
33 What does an AVR
34 What happens if it fails
35 Generator safeties (Reverse power trips etc)
36 Procedure for opening up a breaker for survey
37 Procedure for preparing a boiler for survey
38 How to you set safety valves and who witnesses it
39 Why do we treat boiler water
40 What tests do we do for boiler water (PH, P-ALK, CHLORIDES,HYDRAZINE)
41 What condition does your boiler water need to be (alkaline, low chlorides)
42 What sources does the contamination come from
43 What tests do you do (not trade names indicators and reagents)
44 YOU have high chlorides and you test again describe your actions
45 How do you find the leak,
46 Third tells you boiler water level is dropping and no level can be seen describe your actions
47 Two motor men have a punch up describe your actions and the procedure to be followed.
48 You suspect that one of your engineers in taking drugs describe your actions
49 What entries do you make in the oil record book
50 Marpol regs on oily water discharges
51 Marpol annex 4 sewage what are the regulations

– hammered on again with special areas for annex 6 , and use of incinerators (not allowed to burn metal etc)

TOTAL TIME FOR ORAL – ONE HOUR AND TEN MINUTE
after general introduction surveyor ask me

1. Maker of main engine (MAN B&W6S50MC-C)
2. As engine and ship was new he ask me what is new in x-head .
3. How you make c/case inspection.
4 What are the risks in c/case. O2 meter calibration and maintenance.
5. From where hydrocarbon come in c/case.
6 Which is having more hydrocarbon and why l.o and hfo.
7. How to take main bearing clearance
8. What is difference between normal feeler gauge and Swedish feeler gauge.
9. What action if bearing clearance is excessive. in two stroke and four stroke.engine
10. Type of piston ring clearance, how to measure and what happens if excess of less.
11. What may be the reasons if black smoke is coming from funnel and remedy.
12. What may be causes if aux. engine is running erratic.
13. Why two safety valves on boiler and why one on air receiver.
14. Type of boiler water test and there limits.
15. Boiler blow down procedure.
16. L.O. tests on board.
17 Material for main and aux. engine cyl head.
18. Difference between con rod bolts of two stroke and four stroke and why four stroke bolts
have finite life where two stroke have infinite life.
19. CO2 bulk system
20. Types of earth faults ahere reasons ans how to avoid them
21 Insulation resistance value for 12v,24v,110v,220v,440v and 11000v.
22. Draw ups diagram.
23 Draw shore supply connection.
24. Eearth fault in detail
25. What is MARPOL and annex – i in detail including regulation for tanker.

28/04/08 Exam Centre: Greenock Result: Pass

1. Types of ships sailed.
2. Boiler problems and safety.
3. Boiler firing from cold.
4. If boiler was not firing what are your actions?
5. What would you do if it was firing 2nd or 3rd time?
6. What do you know about earth faults?
7. As a second engineer, what instruction would you give to your junior employee for changing a bulb?
8. How do you come to know when equipment is dead?
9. How do you use a multimeter?
10. Draw and show where would you keep the leads and how you test?
11. What scale will you set on the multimeter?
12. What do you know about synchroscope?
13. What do you know about instrument transformer?
14. What are the dangers involved in instrument transformer?
15. How does the reversing system work in Sulzer?
16. How does air starting system work?
17. Consider yourself as a 2nd Engineer, during manoeuvring after the pilot is on board, bridge asks for Dead Slow astern but engine is not starting, what will be your immediate actions?
18. After changing to local manoeuvring it is still not starting?
19. Draw the reversing mechanism in your last engine (Sulzer)?
20. Dry dock preparations?
21. How do dock people come to know ships plan?
22. What is the responsibility of a 2nd or chief engineer with the cargo loading plan?
23. Suppose you find a dent on the shipside while inspecting the hull of the ship, what do you do? Whom to inform?
24. What concerns the crew during dry dock?
25. Can you stay on board or in a hotel during dry dock?
26. What is ISM? How many sections do you have?
27. What do you use for electrical fire?
28. Can high expansion foam be used?
29. Compressor safety?
30. Stability of your ship.

28/04/08 Greenock Result: Pass

1. Types of ships sailed.
2. Draw DOL and explain it.
3. Safeties.
4. Emergency circuit supply?
5. Arrangement of engine gen. starting and explain.
6. Other arrangement of starting?
7. Safeties on switchboard.
8. Use of reverse power trip and explanation why.
9. Type of engines.
10. Lube oil type, properties, SAE and what information required.
11. What was viscosity of fuel at bankering and at atomisation?
12. Lube oil TBN – why is it important? What was specific gravity of system oil?
13. Survey of air receiver.
14. Safeties of air receiver.
15. Air compressor – what is oil carryover?
16. Draw oil scraper rung and explain.
17. SOPEP, Marpol, ISM
18. Where can’t you discharge bilge water if you have to autostop?
19. All special areas, explain annex 1
20. Certificates that are carried on board.
21. How will you know when a survey is due?
22. Who issues these certificates?
23. Who has given authority to flag state controls?
24. PSC
25. Inspection on IOPP? How often and by whom?
26. Steering gear? How can two rams be used?
27. Checks on a filled fire fighting system? (as a 2nd engineer)
28. How often do you check the load on the emergency generator?
29. Pre departure steering gear check?
30. How can a 4 ram S.G. be used on a 2 ram?

Date: 23/07/08 Greenock Result: Pass

1. General Introduction
2. You have done all container ships, what the requirements if you want to join a tanker?
3. What is STCW 95?
4. What is ISM?
5. What are the 13 points?
6. Explain inspection & removal of M/E bottom end brg.
7. Why crankcase considered as enclosed space?
8. What gases can be found in the crankcase?
9. How oxygen depletion takes place in tanks?
10. What gases are found in ballast tanks?
11. How rusting takes place?
12. Why you need permit to work?
13. Who signs permit to work?
14. What are the contents of permit to work?
15. Does the person who enters enclosed space sign it?
16. Before bottom end removal, where do you take clearance?
17. How do you take clearance?
18. With what do you compare the readings taken?
19. At what points do you take clearance in the following: a) main bearing b) bottom end c) cross-head brg?
20. After boxing up checks on bottom end brg?
21. Draw main air start system from bottles.
22. How does the air start v/v open?
23. What are the safeties in the system and why?
24. What is free surface effect?
25. How does it affect the stability of the ship?
26. Draw and show centre of buoyancy, GM?
27. How do you find out centre of buoyancy?
28. Safeties in refrigeration system?
29. Where do you change gas?
30. How do you change gas?
31. Why H.P. and L.P. cut outs operate?
32. What is a thermostatic expansion v/v?
33. How do you find out air in a system?
34. How to purge out air?
35. How do you change the air in the refrigeration compressor?
36. How do you find a gas leakage?
37. How many types of motor starting?
38. What is D.O.L. starter?
39. Amount of current it draws?
40. Where do you use star delta?
41. Why use star delta?
42. How do you check insulation?
43. What are the desirable readings?
44. What is single phasing?
45. How do you find out?
46. Which type of fixed fire fighting system?
47. What checks on systems and alarms?
48. What checks in CO2 room & on bottles?
49 What was the type of boiler
50 Explain water treatment used in the boiler
51 What are you measuring in BWT
52 What values are desirable
53 What actions would you take if the readings were abnormal

Note: Engineers must also be thorough with stability.

12/12/08 ABERDEEN PASS

1 Type of ship – main engine, auxy boiler, alternators.

2 How do you take bunker samples. MARPOL sample.

3 How do you calculate bunkers for a voyage

4 What is SOLAS

5 What do you understand by Code of Safe Working Practice

6 What is ISM

7 Explain the risk assessment before any overhaul.

8 Explain piston overhaul

9 Checks on piston

10 Checks on lifting gear, hydraulic p/p etc.

11 Explain how piston ring seals, how you check clearances, how much, when to change rings.

12 Explain liner overhaul

13 How do you gauge liner

14 What do you inspect on liner surfaces.

15 How do you check for cylinder lubrication.

16 What are fall wires, and how do you test the brakes.

17 When do you change them.

18 What is SMC, DOC, STCW 95, IMO

19 MARPOL – 6 Annex, Details of Annex 1 and VI

20 Draw refrigeration cycle.

21 Draw A.H.U.

22 Explain the refrigeration cycle

23 What does T.E.V. do.

24 How will you know there is air in the system, and how will you remove it

10/12/2008 GREENOCK PASS

He started off with a general chat about the type of ships i was on and asked me to pick one and that we would go through the syllabus contained in M notice 69 tailored to that vessel

I picked an oil tanker with a MAN B&W MC Engine.

As an aside he asked me if I thought that the people on board the tanker were qualified to work on the steam plants. and he went on to explain that BP after an audit realised that in fact the people were NOT qualified and ended up with Large numbers of people from BP having to get steam endorsements.

1 He started by asking me to talk him through the Lub Oil System starting at the
crankcase drains going round the system
2 He asked about desirable quality’s of Lubricating oils and asked for
comparisons of Lub oil between 2 and 4 strokes
3 Boiler safety devices, Asking where located and the type of safety valve fitted
(looking for high lift)
4 Boiler Water treatment – what system we had (Unitor) what are we trying to
achieve by treating boiler water. what is a non chemical way of preventing
corrosion ( boiler Hotwell Temp)
5 How To disconnect a Motor that needs opening for survey general questions
on safe electrical practices
6 Shore Power – would it be ok to connect up to shore power if they could only
provide 400v at 50Hz
7 Stability – was asking what happens to the centre of gravity if he was to place
a massive weight on the bow of the ship
Ships Stability/Stress measuring equipment did we as engineers have anything to do with it (went on to explain we should but has been finding that lots of people have said they didnt in their company)
Dry dock planning – Told me it was 4 weeks before a drydock what would i do to start preparing for a drydock. spent a good bit of time on this one
8 Hull Paint looking to see if i was aware of the regulations and certificates
involved with hull paint systems
9 Certificates onboard (he was looking for the important ones such as Load Line
Cert etc)
10 ISM – what is it how is it organised and administered ie IMO leading to
Statutory notices going to Dept transport then on to MCA Agency. asked about
the 13 Topics of ISM. from that he moved into MARPOL and the Annexes
focusing on 6, 4 and had a bee in his bonnet about annex 1 and that he had
three different people tell him the wrong rules about this in one day, so i
assume he might stay on top of this one.
11 Asked about what would i do if we found that a piece of equipment in the
planned maintenance system kept breaking down before the running hours for
survey/inspection were up – he was looking for lettin the office know about it so
the system can be changed in the SMS.
12 Asked where on the ship I could find the Code of Safe working practices, who
would I contact if the crew told me they weren’t getting paid (ILO)

13 Just made me to keep on top of the Enclosed space regulations on my next
ship as we have had six fatalities in the north sea in the last wee while.

10/12/08 GREENOCK FAIL

Commenced with discussion about my last ship and her machinery.

1. Explain the procedure prior to carrying out a crosshead bearing survey with the class society present.
2. Explain how the procedure above would be carried out.
3. What is on board your ship to prevent pollution?
4. MARPOL Annex 1: Where are the special areas and what are the rules in each?
5. Enclosed space entry: What are the preparations?
-Ventilation? What are the safety features of the fan used? If you vent fan through engine room fan trunking are the engine room fans safe?
-Oxygen content: what should it be?
-What are the limits of explosives in the atmosphere?
6. How do you detect earth faults on your last ship?
7. Is one earth fault dangerous?
8. List all electrical safety devices on board your ship?
9. Why are over current relays fitted?
10. How does a single phasing protection unit work?
11. Your junior engineer is to carry out some work on a motor, what instruction would you give him prior to the work being carried out?
12. If I put a large weight on the bow of your ship, where would the GM move to?
13. How are fires prevented from being started on board?
14. What is the physical difference between different classification of bulkheads (how do they make one class A and another class B)?
15. All the exhaust temperatures are high on your generator (not a Paxman!) what is the cause bearing in mind that I am telling you it is NOT due to high load on the alternator?
16. List all boiler safety devices?
17. If you shut the boiler steam stop valve will the safety valves operate?
18. Describe the start air system of Sulzer RND. Explain EXACTLY how it works. Is start signal air or electrical? How is Sulzer RND camshaft moved between ahead and astern and describe the construction of the device that does this?
19. List all the certificates that a ship must have.
20. Where would you find copies of COSWP?
21. List all life saving appliances.
22. Where would you find information about life saving appliances?
23. Is SOLAS the only place?

23/12/08 GREENOCK PASS

1. Draw and AVR and explain.
2. How is excitation generated from a dead ship?
3. What was the generated frequency, number of alternator poles, RPM? – f=NP
4. In drydock can we connect to shore supply if Voltage and frequency are different to ship?
5. List the mandatory certificates required to be carried onboard.
6. What is the Motorman’s rating according to STCW?
7. What are the minimum requirements for any seaman? – Age and certificates.
8. Who issues IOPPC and how long is is valid?
9. MARPOL Annexes?
10. MARPOL Annex 1 Rules for discharge, SOPEP and flooding.
11. MARPOL Annex 6 Rules for fuel limits including MDO.
12. What fuel did we bunker?
13. IFO 180 – what does this indicate?
14. Temperature at injection?
15. Difference between cSt and viscosity?
16. Draw Double Bottom Structure and what would you pay attention to during inspection?
17. Stability – what is the minimum required GM?
18. Draw a midship section indicating Centre of Gravity, Metacentre and Centre of Buoyancy.
19. Assume a wing double bottom is flooded, how does this affect G and GM?
20. Why does a ship float, what principle and what does it state?
21. Fourth calls you informing of Fire on Main Generator, what are your actions?
22. Hi Fog system – what do you survey?
23. CO2 system – testing and survey?
24. Generator Lubricating Oil type and desired properties?
25. Low cylinder pressure on one unit – about 10 bar less than rest – what would you check?
26. Draw a diagram on Diesel Electric Propulsion Layout.
27. What safety features are fitted to the Main Switchboard?
28. What is the procedure for carrying out maintenance on the Main Switchboard?
29. ILO – what are the minimum hours of rest?
30. What was the ship’s P.M.S. and how are spares ordered?
31. What is the role of the chief engineer onboard your vessel?
32. What are the starting requirements for the Emergency Generator?
33. How often in the Emergency Generator tested and for how long?

18/12/08 GREENOCK PASS

1 Explain the procedure for carrying out a cross head bearing with Class present
2 What would you be looking for on the bearing (cant achieve hydrodynamic lubrication)
3 After a long passage and during maneuverings you go to dead slow astern and nothing happens, what would you do? (Auto valve system and pressure, dead spot turn engine)
4 Synchronizing, voltage, frequency and phase angle
5 Motor isolation (voltage, measuring across phases and earth)
6 Dangers with fresh (Asphyxiation, high pressure systems and fresh burns)
7 F.O. T< open for survey list precautions
8 What percentage of O2 required
9 LFL and enclosed space entry
10 Risk assessment for fuel TC entry ship stability TRIM + STABILITY BOOK
11 Regulations on minimum wage + living conditions (ILO)
12 IMO, IMS, SMS.

Want Engineers to attend electrical courses to be more involved in trim and stability.

Asked how man dry dock I have been involved in.

19/12/08 GREENOCK FAIL

1 M/E performance check (all parameters and what others to be checked) – explaining each parameters whey it is checked
2 Continuation of the first question (indicator diagrams In-phase and Out-of-phase card)
3 Additional generator performance parameters to be checked apart from M/E
4 Boiler survey-what are the procedures done in detail, what to check on safety valves, water boiling testing
5 H.F O-what to check on fuel oil when taking bunker, about SOx and NOx emissions, how to reduce the emissions,
6 Dry docking survey – what are the procedures to be done, what details have to be given to the dock? What you will check on the ship side all details
7 What is 3 phase, how is it generated, draw the 3 phase diagram, how is the generator alternator connected, why do we have 3 phase? (Its all about the A.C. alternators)
8 About air circuit breaker (generator ACB) why is the arc created how is it extinguished, how is the air circuit breaker over loaded relay tested?
9 Certificates on board, FOR EACH CERTIFICATE what are their validity, who issues them, how often each type of certificate is surveyed, type of survey (initial, annual, intermediate, additional, renewal, etc.) all the items in detail

19/01/09 BELFAST PASS

1 As a 2nd engineer, chief officer comes in the morning and informs you that the crude oil washing equipment not working, what will be your actions? (discussed basically about the safety, DRA, preparation, overhauling of the equipment)
2 Then discussion changed over to tankers crude oil discharge regulations, and then later discussion changed over to ODMD (oil discharge monitoring device) how it is separated from hazardous/non-hazardous area and the regulations.
3 How the OWS onboard your ship works the principle of coalescer explained, the regulations pertaining it. The working of oil discharge monitor (the ODM was sketched and explained) how the function of ODM is affected, what maintenance carried out and the regulations.
4 Steering gear system if the helmsman from the bridge is turning the wheel, how is the rudder moving, how is the signal given, thru what means, how it is working?
5 How do you operate in emergency (change over procedure discussed)
6 Steering gear diagram drawn and explained in detail, single failure system explained.
7 How the tiller arm is connected to the ram, how is it sliding? How the rudder weight is carried (rudder carrier bearing explained) does the weight create a bending movement on the ram?
8 Difference between a purifier and clarifier? About purifiers with water transducer (the Alfa Laval ALCAP system) the discussion was carried over to fuel oil quality
9 Discussed about bunker delivery note (what details given in the note, retention period) what details does the bunker analysis report give? (Explain in detail). Fuel oil characteristics were also discussed. How the fuel oil quality affects the combustion process leading to various engine problems (SOx and NOx emissions also discussed)
10 Draw Fuel oil line diagram (explained in detail) 3/E calls you and informs you that the fuel oil temperature has gone up. What action will you take? Viscotherm was discussed, how it is operating, how will you check whether it is working fine or not? Can you burn with high fuel oil temperature? Where can you find details about fuel temperature which can be burned on a specific engine? What happens when this high temperature fuel oil mixes in the mixing column or service tank (the question is still under condition that the viscotherm not working properly)
11 Why changing over of the stand by pumps is done every month? PMS (planned maintenance system) was discussed. Unexpected breakdown of the pump was also discussed. 3/E calls you and informs you that the F/O booster pump is not changing over, what actions will you take? The initial checks to be carried out was discussed on the pump side, later discussed on the electrical part of the motor, (checking circuit breakers, fuses over current relay (drawn and explained), overloaded relay, short circuits, insulation checks single phasing was all discussed)
12 Technical super comes on board and tells you to start the emergency generator when the ship is in laid up (dead ship) condition, what will you do? You are new on board and there is no out going 2engr to handover, you have just joined the ship
Company operational procedure manual will be checked/emergency generator starting procedure checklist will be followed if there was no familiarization the normal checks will be carried out and the generator started.
What if no battery supplies? It will be started by other means, cranking up the engine by hydraulic start. What will you check on the ESB? What if no voltage produced? Field excitation by external battery supply was discussed and explained (the surveyor was looking for this answer)

12/01/2009 Greenock PASS

1 Write down all the certificates required onboard

2 Name all the surveys that are carried out

3 Draw an AVR and explain

4 What is the reason for no voltage showing on starting a generator.

5 What are the instruments for detecting the alarms in a UMS ship.

6 How do we check they are working.

7 What do you know about dead man alarms.

8 In what condition of the ship do we calculate the efficiency of the main engine and how.

9 What is V.I.T.

10 What is its use and two different methods(single unit and all units)

11 Where can you see the VIT settings

12 Boiler survey

13 How will you come to know the condition of the safety valve when it is dismantled.

14 How do we test them.

15 What is the accumulation pressure.

16 What is the purpose of easing gear.

17 What is the use of the deck seal.

18 What was the setting of the PV valve on your last ship.

19 Where is the PV breaker.

20 What is the purpose of them.

21 What are the requirements before entering dry dock.

22 What are the plans you have to submit to the drydock.

23 How is the ship layed in drydock and why.

24 What are the requirements for a motorman according to STCW 95.

25 What do you do if two motormen are fighting.

26 Where will you find the minimum number of motormen required onboard ship.

27 What id DOC and SMC

28 How often are they surveyed and renewed.

Aberdeen 03/04/09 PASS

1. Type of Ship: Aframax Oil Tanker
2. Type of Engine: MAN B&W 6S60MC
3. List all the certificates
4. Explain Safety Construction Cert. & Safety Equipment Cert.
5. Explain taking all safeties into consideration how will you remove a piston from a unit
6. Types of clearances on a piston and how they are taken
7. Checks before entering crankcase (M1345)
8. How do you check your lifting gear
9. Who does the Check and when
10. Explain LOLER (MGN 332)
11. Explain Pulse and constant pressure T/C
12. Explain uniflow, loop and crossflow scavenging ( why is uniflow prefered)
13. Design criteria for loop and crossflow engines
14. Working of exhaust valve for crosshead engine
15. Explain why stuffing box is required
16. Difference between bottom end bolts on 4 stroke and 2 stroke engine
17. Why is undercut necessary in bottom end bolts ( explain in detail)
18. Why do 4 stroke bottom end bolts have a finite life
19. Function of governor
20. Working principle of the governor
21. What is droop why is it required
22. Droop Diagram
22. One generator is not willing to take all the load, what could be the problem
23. Reasons for low insulation
24. What is camber
25. What is free surface effect
26. What is the use of inclining experiment
27. Explain Bulk CO2 system
28. Advantages and disadvantages of Bulk CO2
29. Why are boiler water test necessary
30. What does each test indicate
31. How is TDS checked and how do u lower the TDS in the boiler
32. How do you charge the battery (draw the circuit)
33 Explain the ac rectification to dc

Class 2 Orals Greenock 7-04-09 PASS

Type of ship, engines, auxiliaries. My last ship was medium speed but he explained I must know about all 2-stroke engines and syllabus for class 2
Draw 2-stroke and 4-stroke timing diagrams and explain
Difference between 2-stroke and 4-stroke
Draw 2-stroke air start system, explain reversing, explain safeties in system
Reversing methods
Actions if air start valve sticks open.
Air start valve, explain operation
Explain dangers of oil in air start system, where is it from? Source of ignition?
Draw fuel injector and draw jerk type fuel pump and explain system
How is injection quantity controlled, governor operation
Boilers. He went quite heavily into because of my limited experience with boilers
Boiler fittings, gauge glass, blow down, scum valves, main stop valve etc
How to blow down and scum the boiler.
Boiler water treatment and reasons for it. O², alkalinity, chlorides, hotwell temp
Contamination Oil/chlorides, where from, actions if detected
Junior engineer calls – low level in boiler – actions
Type of pump for boiler feed water and why, describe pump
Full procedure for flashing up cold boiler which has just been surveyed
Boiler uptake fire, actions, reasons
Scavenge Space fire. Junior engineer calls, what actions as 2nd engineer
How to fight scavenge fire – CO2, steam
Motor/Pump full isolation procedure
Testing of motor and overhaul explain all
Overhaul of centrifugal pump explain everything and why check?
Purpose of wear rings
What is G, B, GM, GZ, draw and explain free surface effect on these
Why GM important – loll
What is IMO, ISM, SMS, explain all and what it means to 2nd engineer
Ship security, different levels of security, How is security maintained?

Aberdeen 14/05/09 PASS

1) How do you go on UMS?
2) What checks are carried out on motors during UMS?
3) How is insulation of a motor affected?
4) How do u test insulation?
5) How much is the value of insulation for motors?
6) How do u repair the insulation?
7) What is a Mitchell type thrust bearing?
8) How is lub oil supplied to the bearing? When i replied through an oil pipe, he was consistently impressing upon me that he had an oil bath for that, to which i disagreed.
9) How does the bearing take thrust?
10) Instead of tilting pads what if the bearing was a plain bearing (like main bearing with flat surface)?
11) Why the bearing will wear out very fast?
12) What will happen if the bearing wears out?
13) Why do u require ¼ lift for boiler safety v/v?
14) Piston has been taken out for survey. Before the surveyor comes what checks would u conduct on the piston?
15) If profile gauge is used how many places would u take the reading on the piston crown.
16) What reading are u supposed to take and compare while caring out the above mentioned ?
17) What if one place on the crown u get a gap and on some other place the profile gauge displaced?
18) Why the bulging would have occurred?
19) How will u prepare a UMS checklist if the owner asks u to prepare one on board where there is no previous record?
20) Governer droop?

ABERDEEN ORAL 25.06.2009 PASSED
1. When did you come here yesterday or today.
2. Tell me what are the clearances in the piston, how do you check the clearances.
3. Why are the clearances important.
4. Draw the big end bearing bolt, why it is under cut.
5. Why do 4-stroke big end bearing bolts have a limited life.
6. What is the material for cyl. Liner.
7. Why is this material choosen.
8. What is the use of a cross head.
9. Draw a sterntube lubrication system, why it is two tanks highor & lower.
10. Ok tell me One Gen. is Running, You started another generator to put on load, but it is not showing any voltage, what could be the reason.
11. From where the signal is coming to AVR.
12. What fixed fire fighting system do you have on board.
13. How many bottle, how do you know CO2 level in the bottle.
14. Ifyou found less, what will you do, how many percentage less is acceptable.
15. How will you minimise fire from engine room.
16. What is crank case explosion.
17. How do you will minimise crankcase explosion.
18. Why you are testing boiler water.
19. What are the test carried out on board.
20. From chloride what you comes to know.
21. If high chloride what could be the reason.
22. What are the sources that impurities can comes to the boiler.
23. What is high lift safety valve.
24. What is difference between safety valve & relief valve.
25. What is governor droop.
26. Why taking powercard.
27. Draw a power card, what do we get from it.
28. How you will calculate the power. Why we take rps not rpm.
29 Draw an out of phase diagram.

GREENOCK 26/06/09 PASS

1 Give a brief description of last two ships sailed on, Engine type and auxiliaries.

2 How do you carry out performance monitoring of the engines (main & auxy).

3 Sketch an indicator card & draw card, explain both.

4 Procedure for taking peak pressures of main engine.

5 What would be the maximum difference in pressure between any two units & what would you check if above this pressure.

6 How would you balance a main engine exhaust temperatures.

7 Describe procedure for checking main engine fuel timing, jerk type fuel pump.

8 Explain procedure for removal of main engine cylinder head & piston (2 Stroke) for survey. What faults could you find when carrying out survey. What tests and checks are carried out before re fitting head and piston assembly.

9 How would you detect a small crack on underside of cylinder head during survey.
10 Tests carried out on liner, piston ring grooves and scrapper rings.

11 What can you tell me about MARPOL annexes 1,4,6, asking about low sulphur fuels areas and fuel analysis.

12 Type of oily water separator & monitoring equipment onboard.

13 Can you use the OWS in special areas, where can you not use it. What do you log when you use it & what you must do if it becomes inoperable.

14 List everything you log in your oil record book. (codes & numbers)

15 How does IMO and ISM affect Second Engineer.

16 List the certificates you have onboard and there validity.

17 Lifesaving equipment onboard.

18 As second engineer what checks do you carry out on CO2

19 How are the CO2 bottle contents checked and how often.

20 Asked about fire pumps and system.

21 How often do you run emergency generator on load and what equipment does it supply, sketch distribution for emergency switchboard.

22 Draw a direct online starter and explain.

23 Explain how an AVR works.

24 List all your switchboard safeties, and explain how they work.

25 Asked about boiler safety valves and fittings, also tests carried out on water and why.

26 Sketch a high lift safety v/v for boiler.

27 Stability, minimum requirement, Is GM important. Explain free surface effect with regards to GZ, & how it affects the stability of the ship.

28 What would happen to GM if engine room floods.

29 What is your actions as second engineer if the engine room starts to flood.

30 Can you pump bilges overboard if flooding.

32 Bilge injection, how is this valve tested and how often

GREENOCK 21/07/09 FAIL

Questions: 1hhr 15mins

List certification held onboard.

Tell me about your last engine (type) turns out that he had sailed with this type of engine…..

Describe the removal of a piston and prepare for inspection.

What pressure did the hydraulic jacks operate at.

What safety precautions would you use when operating these.

What checks on cylinder liner.

Where are cracks commmonly found on that type of cylinder head.

asked what was the approx stroke length.

Why did they develop the ultra long strokes.

how do you check engine performance.

Draw an indicator card.

What is MIP, MEP and explain.

went back and asked for more docs. (unable to give anymore)

Asked how i felt it went.

Told him i felt nerves got the better of me and he told me that i’d get it next time and to brush up on the documents and about MIP,MEP.

GREENOCK 23/07/09 PASS

1. sketch a longitudinal and transverse of any ship and identify any key points on it with regards to stability and construction
2. What is different in a collision bulkhead?
3. explain K,B,G and M on sketch
4. how can the ship be stable but unsafe with regards to stability (flooding and hogging)
5. You’re in your cabin and the 4th calls reporting flooding, what do you do? (Went through everything from legging people know, ensuring crew safety and emergency bilge pumping)
6. Sketch a hull under hogging
7. How as an engineer do you affect hogging (fuel transfers from DB tanks to built up tanks forward)
8. Where on your original sketch is the freeboard deck?
9. Why is it there, what rule determines its position?
10. what is the load line and what rules govern it?
11. Who is the IMO?
12. What conventions did they have?
13. why are these conventions legal?
14. What is SOLAS and ISM?
15. Went heavily into conventions and who issues DOC and SMC.
16. What certificates do ships carrying dangerous goods need?
17. Why do we comply with the IMO who ensures that we comply with them?
18. You are a 2nd joining a new ship with foreign crew. How do you know that the crew onboard are safe to work with and can be left alone while you are resting? (I said they will be certified to STCW’95 but he said that that wasn’t enough and all that it means is that they passed an exam on that day)
19. You join as a 2nd in Japan and without any rest the Chief tells you that you are on shift, what would you say? (Said that I wasn’t suitably rested and am entitled to rest)
20. What law governs the rest hours?
21. What are the laws regarding rest hours?
22. What fixed firefighting equipment on a cruise ship?
23. What are the different types of bulkheads with regards to bulkheads?
24. Does A-60 mean?
25. Where would find these different classes onboard?
26. What about in the Engine Room?
27. What type of penetrations are there in bulkheads? (Kept pushing until I said watertight door)
28. How would you pass cables through an A-60 bulkhead?
29. What type of CO2 did we have?
30. How is it tested?
31. How many alarms are there? (3- when control box is opened, when it is released and if the pressure release valve is activated via accidental discharge)
32. What engines do you have on board in terms of power (about 45 min had passed before he asked this!)
33. What safety features are fitted on the main switchboard?
34. What are additional precautions you would take when working with 6k6?
35. Asked about residual voltage, how to discharge a capacitor safely.
36. How do meters on high voltage breakers work? (looking for step-down transformers)
37. Draw a timing diagram for any type of engine I want.
38. Explain what is going on
39. How do you adjust timing on VIT type of pump?
40. If you have one cylinder with a low exhaust temp what would you do? (I said about checking fuel rack position, peak pressures and indicator cards. He was actually looking for check the probe!)

He said at the end that usually the 2nds oral is a lot more technical but because I was on passenger ships I had to know about certification as it plays such a big role with regard to passenger safety.

GREENOCK 22/07/09 PASS

1. What type of ships were you on (PSV, AHT, 4-stroke)
2. How to asses engine performance
3. How you did it on your ship
4. What other information did you record
5. Show how you recorded info (drew table)
6. What if you had low peak pressure and temps (increase fuel)
7. How can you adjust fuel timing
8. How was it adjusted on your ships + sketch arrangment
9. Other methods of adjusting timing
10. Scavenge inlet manifold to a unit is hot.,… why??
11. How to check if it is an inlet not sealing (compression press)
12. Procedure for removing cylinder head
13. Procedure to remove piston from unit
14. What inspections would you do to piston
15. What checks to be done on rings and ring grooves
16. What the purpose of clearance between groove and top of ring
17. What is ISM
18. How it affects you as second engineer
19. What kind of fixed fire fighting system did you have
20. Describe CO2 system
21. Procedure for setting of fixed CO2 system
22. 23. Describe electrical system on ship
24. What if you have no voltage from alternator
25. Whats AVR
26. How is excitation is achieved
27. Insulation testing, whats the desired Insulation resistance
28. What is the equation for power in a 3-phase system
29. Explain power factor
30. Explain stability, G, M, GM, GZ using diagrams
31. If a load is placed onto the ships deck which way does G move

Class 2 Orals July 09 Greenock 1hr 30mins Pass

1. Explain how the main engines power is calculated?
2. Draw Main engines performance graph? (Draw cards)
3. State the equation for calculating each units power?
4. List all Ships certificates?
5. List ISM sub headings?
6. Describe procedure for dismantling main bearing for survey?
7. Type of LO used in engine?
8. What tests are carried out on LO onboard?
9. What does TBN mean?
10. What will happen if there’s too much water in LO?
11. Procedure if 4th Eng calls you due to an Oil mist detector alarm?
12. What safety equipment do you test onboard?
13. How is the cooling water system of lifeboat engines, emergency geny protected in cold weather?
14. New motorman joins, what procedure do you do before he starts work?
15. During Bunkers the hose bursts, what is your actions?
16. Procedure taken after ship runs aground?
17. Can the ship still sail with several tanks ruptured?
18. The Main Engines only turbo charger breaks down. Can the ship still sail without it?

Class 2 Orals Sept. 09 Southampton PASS

1. Explain what you would do when taking over a ship as 2nd engineer that you have never been on before?
2. and with regards to the planned maintenance system, to what would
you pay particular attention?
3. Talk me through how you would go about preparing the boiler for
survey by Lloyds.
4. What would be the procedure prior to and during entry into the
furnace/water side? (enclosed space entry).
5. How would the safety valves on the boiler be set? And at what
pressure should they lift?
6. Once the safety valves had been proved and set what would you test now?
7. Can the Chief Engineer set the safety valves on the boiler?
8. What kinds of different motor starting systems are there?
9. What would happen if a star-delta starting system failed to change
over onto delta? What could the cause be?
10. Explain single phasing?
11. How do you protect against it and how a single phase trip operates?
12. Explain all other protection with regards to motors.
13. Hows does an OCR work?
14. How would you know your lifting gear on board is in date and safe to use?
15. Explain the fixed fire-fighting system onboard your last ship?
16. What are the benefits of CO2?
17. Explain how a re-entry is made?

Class 2 Orals 23/11/09 Greenock PASS

1 Type of ship
2 As a second engineer how do you check main engine efficiency
3 All 4 diagrams in detail
4 Draw from thrust bearing to propeller
5 SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW 95 in detail
6 Survey for a main engine thrust block
7 How do you make sure ship is following SMS
8 How do you train a motorman
9 Rest hours minimum required.
10 Main switchboard survey? Who does it.
11 How do you prepare for a dry dock. Starting from the aft of the ship
12 Checks on the rudder
14 Spectrographic analysis of LO.
15 Checks for load line survey
16 Certificates to be carried onboard

17 Type of fire detectors, alarms, bulkheads, A,B,C.
18 How do you check fuel pump timing. How do you adjust fuel pump if timing is wrong.
19 After burning, late ignition
20 Sewage treatment plant onboard.
21 Details of I.O.P.P. certificate.

Class 2 Orals 01/12/09 Greenock PASS

1 Big end bearing survey
2 Dry-dock hull inspection
3 How to take pintle clearance
4 Pintle clearance is out of limit but C/E and Super. Say we have to sail so leave it. What would you do.
5 Bow, describe panting and pounding structure.
6 Oil Record Book, If bilge was discharged and entry made in log book what would you do.
7 Annex 1 bilge o/b requirement.
8 Annex 6 explain.
9 ISM explain what it is about.
10 Uptake fire explain actions.
11 Why do bulk carriers have a larger freeboard than tankers.
12 Generator breaker stuck actions.
13 Boiler low level, pump not filling what do you do.
14 Why DPA
15 Draw flammable diagram and explain.
16 What do you check on a propeller in dry dock
17 What is cavitation.
18 Maintenance of IG plant.
19 Sketch and describe types of deck seals.

14/12/09 BELFAST PASS

1. EXPLAIN MANOVEURING DIAGRAM?
2. TELL ME WHAT CHECKS WILL THE LOGIC UNIT CONFIRM?
3. WHAT CHECKS U WILL DO BEFORE STARTING AN ENGINE?
4. WHY U ARE TURNING ENGINE WITH TURNING GEAR?
5. WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLITIES OF WATER?
6. WHAT IS THE POSSIBLE CAUSE IF LUB OIL COMING OUT FROM THE INDICATOR COCK?
7. HOW WILL A PISTON CROWN CRACK?
8. HOW WILL YOU CONFIRM THAT THE PISTON COOLING IS SUFFICIENT IN THE CROWN?
9. HOW THE PISTON IS COOLED? EXPLAIN?
10 HOW A LINER WILL WEAR ON A CARBON DEPOSIT ON PISTON?
11 WHAT LUB OIL PROPERTIES SHOULD A C/C SHOULD HAVE?
12 HOW WILL YOU KNOW CORRECT COMBUSTION TAKES PLACE?
13 HOW WILL U ASSESS?
14 WHAT FAULT CAN COME ON AN INJECTOR?
15 HOW WILL U O/H AN INJECTOR?
16 WHAT SAFETY MEASURES U WILL TAKE DURING O/H?
17 WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE CAUSES OF A LINER CRACK?
18 WHAT IS INDICATOR CARDS FOR?
19 WHAT IS PLUNGER?
20 HOW DOES THE GROOVE WORK ON PLUNGER? N WHAT DOES FUEL LEVER DOES ON PLUNGER?
21 HOW WILL YOU CALCULATE CORRECT INJECTION?
22 WHAT FUEL PROPERTUES AFFECTS COMBUSTION?
23 WHAT IS CATALYTIC FINES?
24 HOW WILL YOU SEPERATE THEM?
25 HOW DOES A PURIFIER AND CLARIFIER WORKS?
26 HOW THE STERN TUBE IS MAINTAINED?
27 HOW DOES THE SEALS WORK?
28 WHAT TYPE OF BRG USED ON STERN TUBE? METAL?
29 WHAT TYPE OF BRG IS ON INTERMEDIATE SHAFT BRG AND WHY?
30 INTERMEDIATE BRG IS HOT? WHY?
31 HOW DOES A PRESSURE GUAGE WORKS?
32 HOW WILL U TEST THE PRESSURE GUAGE WHICH U ARE USING FOR THE SAFETY PURPOSE (EG..INJECTOR TEST AND JACKS)?
33 WHAT ARE CAUSES FOR INTERMEDIATE BRG TO OVERLOAD?
34 WHAT CHECK U WILL DO ON PROPELLER IN DRY DOCK?
35 WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF CAVITATION?
36 WHERE ELSE U FIND CAVITATION IN E/R? AND OUTSIDE E/R?
37 HOW RUDDER IS SUPPORTED?
38 WHAT IS PINTLE?
39 WHAT TYPE OF BEARING IS USED IN RUDDER CARRRIER? N WHY?
40 HOW WILL ENTER AN ENCLOSED SPACE?
41 WHY TAKING PORTABLE METER THOUGH UR O2 IS 21%?
42 WHAT CHECKS U WILL DO IN DB TANKS?
43 WHAT IS STIFFNERS AND BRACKETS?
44 HOW CAN UR SHIP BECOMES UNSTABLE?
45 WHAT IS A FREE SURFACE EFFECT?
46 EMERGENCY SUPPLIES FROM EMERGENCY GENERATOR?
47 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STEERING GEAR CIRCUIT AND OTHER CIRCUITS IN E/R?
48 HOW RUDDER ANGLE IS MAINTAINED?
49 HOW DOES SOLAS HELPS U ON BOARD?
50 WHAT IS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ISM?
51 WHAT IS THE LATEST CODE AMENDED WHICH IS USE? NOT ISM?
52 WHAT IS ISPS? HOW IT WAS IMPLEMENTED ON UR LAST SHIP?
53 AS A SECOND ENGR WHAT WILL YOU DO ON SECURITY LEVEL 1?
54 WILL U LOCK EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR DURING SECURITY LEVEL 1?
55 HOW WILL U RECEIVE STORES DURING SECURITY LEVEL 1?
56 WHAT CHECKS U MAKE BEFORE DEPARTURE?
57 WHAT PROPERTIES A CHEMICAL SHOULD HAVE TO REMOVE OIL IN THE BILGES??
58 WHERE IS THE OIL RECORD BOOK STATED?
59 WHAT IS MARPOL ANNEX 1 STATES?
60 WHY DO U HAVE TWO OIL RECORD BOOKS?
61 WHAT WILL MONITOR 15PPM AND HOW DOES IT WORKS?
62 UR OWS DOES NOT SEPERATE OIL AND WATER REASONS?
63 WHAT IS EMULSION? HOW IT CAN AVOIDED?
64 AS A NEW SECOND ENGR WHAT WILL U DO ON A UMS WATCH?
65 AFTER A LONG O/H EVERYONE IS TIRED IN E/R ANF THERE IS A SITUATION THAT U HAVE TO MANNED THE E/R AS A 2ND ENGR WHOM WILL U ASSISN?

21/12/09 GREENOCK PASS

1 As 2nd engineer how will you take M/E performance and do power calculations.
2 How many diagrams can you draw.
3 If you have early injection in all units what will be the likely cause and as 2nd engineer how will you find the fault.
4 How do you check chain tension.
5 If your tension meter is showing max. setting then what would you suggest to the C/E as 2nd engineer.
6 Cross head clearances, how many places will you take measurements and how.
7 How is propeller thrust transferred to the ship. Explain about thrust bearing and how you take clearances.
8 Principle of FW generator.
9 Jacket and Boiler water treatment. Boiler survey.
10 What are the problems with high alkalinity.
11 What is CMS.
12 What machinery can C/E survey.
13 Types of certificates and IMO conventions.
14 Load line survey, what would you present to the surveyor as 2nd engineer.
15 What is surveyed under the Cargo ship safety equipment certificate, what do you present to surveyor as 2nd engineer.
16 Dry dock ship hull survey.
17 How will you take stern tube clearances.
18 What plans have to be sent to dry dock.
19 What services would you require in dry dock.
20 What checks would you carry out before connecting shire power.
21 If voltage is low will you accept it.
22 What two important things must be done before ship sits on blocks.
23 How are keel blocks arranged correctly.

23/12/09 GREENOCK PASS

1 Write down all the certificates to be carried onboard
2 Explain about validity surveys, etc
3 M/E main bearing removal and assembly procedures for survey from planning to testing.
4 How to check trueness of crank journal
5 Related questions about checks and procedures during the overhaul.
6 Explain about ISM
7 Explain about MARPOL and bilge pumping regulations and IOPP certificate.
8 How to take ME performance. What checks and parameters to be taken.
9 How to calculate power from cards
10 How to calculate specific fuel cons.. Where will you get the SFC details for your ship.
11 Draw and explain inert gas system from your ship.
12 What safety device is fitted in the line to prevent overpressure of the tanks.
13 Other than a PV valve what other safety devices are fitted on the IG line.
14 During a loaded passage is the IG valve left open or closed.
15 Explain about fixed fire fighting system of your ship and checks and safety maintenance to be carried out.
16 How to test fire detection as per PMS. How many detectors are tested in each zone at one time.
17 If a tank is flooded what will happen to stability of a vessel and can you sail in thia condition.
18 Explain about enclosed space entry procedures.
19 Crankshaft deflection procedure.

11/1/10 Belfast Pass

1. General chat about the ships I’ve sailed on and how slow steaming has effected the day to day running of the ships.
2. Grade of HFO being used and what is included in the the fuel analysis report recieved from the lab.
3.Expalin the fuel system onboard, from bunker manifold right through to the fuel injector, and what pressures and temperatures at the diifferent points in the system.
4. How is the fuel being sent from the fuel pump to the injector altered and modulated.
5. How does VIT work and what are the advantages of having VIT.
6. What would indicate if one injector wasnt firing correctly.
7. During a unit overhaul what would indicate if a injector was malfunctioning.
8. With the cylinder head off what would you be inspecting on the underside of the cylinder head.
9. What area on the underside of the cylinder head would you most likely find cracks.
10. What is measurements are taking during the overhaul of the piston.
11. What materials are the liner,piston,cylinder head made off.
12. What would indicate that a cylinder lubricator wasnt working
13. What would happen if too much cylinder oil was used over a prelonged period.
14. What conditions would contribute to a scavenge fire and what actions would I take to extinguish it.
15. How do you make sure the preformance of each cylinder of the main engine is similar.
16. What do power cards, draw cards indicate.
17. What precautions would I take before entering the ME crankcase for a crankcase inspection.
18. What are you looking for when carrying out a crankcase inspection.
19. You find water contamination in the sump where could this have came from.
20. Explain the ALCAP principle.
21. Why do you need to add water into a purifier.
22. How is the thrust from the propeller transfered to the ships hull.
23. What type of thrust bearing have I sailed with and how are they lubricated.
24. How would you flash up a boiler from cold condition.
25. As I have sailed with thermal oil alot, a general chat about the system pressures and temperatures.
26. An economiser fire is detected, what actions would I take.
27. The difference between A and B class bulkheads
28. What different types of bulkhead penetrations are there and how they are insulated.
29. I discover a fire in the the engineroom what would I do.
30. After letting go of the Co2 what would I do.
31. What controls the voltage produced by a generator and how does it work.
32. Why do we have earth fault detection systems onboard.
33. Where onboard were the oils and chemicals stored, what measures were taken to ensure the risk off explosion is reduced in these areas.
34. What convention certificates are carried onboard.
35. What is ISM and what does it cover.(Went quite in depth)
36. What SOLAS certificates are carried onboard.(Went quite in depth)
37. Two new motormen join the ship and you need to set up a trainig program for them. Where would you find info on what should be included in the training program.
38. What is STCW 95.
39. What certificates are needed for the use of OWS and what regs relate to the use of the OWS.
40. Who issues M notices and what do they contain.
41. What do M 1214 and 1401 relate to.
42. The ship is in dry dock, go for a walkround of the dock bottom explaining what you are looking at and checking for.
43. What do you look for when checking the propeller.( I forgot cavitation damage)
44. What do you look for when checking the rudder.
45. What is the purpose of anodes.(Went quite in depth and asked about ICCP)
46. What is the purpose of bilge keels.
47. What is free surface effect and how does it effect the ships stability.
48. What is GM, BM, KM, etc.
49. Explain GZ righting lever.

19/01/2010 GREENOCK Pass
1 What ships sailed on
2 What voltage
3 Describe generators
4 Isolate HV system breaker
5 Type of excitation and AVR description
6 How do you calculate power output of engine
7 How do you take peak pressure readings.
8 Difference between draw and peak pressure
9 What can you see on each card.

10 Formulae for MIP, IP and total engine power

11 What engine parameters are logged when taking cards

12 How do you balance an engine

13 Boiler survey procedure, setting safeties, sketch a boiler.

14 Lloyds surveys how often for cargo/passenger ships.

15 Ships certificates who issues them

16 Full dry dock preparation

17 Checks on hull, hull paint, how do you use a poker gauge.

18 SECA regulations, SECA change over procedure.

19 ISM 13 points

20 Shore power supply. Sketch breaker. Can ship take 380V 50Hz

21 STCW minimum hours of rest

22 Crankshaft deflections procedure , Max allowable reading.

23 SOLAS requirements on drills, LSAs Emergency steering.

24 Passenger ship safety certificate requirements

25 Boiler water treatment, why, methods of treatment, chemical names, test procedures, desired values

26 Procedure to remove head, liner, piston on last ship, including all safety requirements.

25/03/2010 GREENOCK Pass

1 Join a dead ship

2 Excitation of alternator

3 Fuel oil testing

4 Flash point of fuel (SOLAS Rules)

5 Bunkering procedure, what do you make sure your motormen know.

6 Topping off tanks

7 Run aground, what do you check.

8 How do you check holding down bolts.

9 You go to dry dock what checks (remember grounding)

10 How do you remove rudder

11 Draw your last ships steering gear.

12 What oil do you send for analysis.

13 List of certificates

14 ISM what is the purpose.

15 Minimum manning

16 Working hours.

17 Induction of new crew member

18 Dangers of CO2 for machinery spaces.

19 What do you check in the CO2 locker.

20 Difference between class and flag state.

21 Oil leaking from ship, possible sources.

22 Who do you notify that you are leaking oil.

26/03/2010 GREENOCK Pass

1 What type of ships have you sailed on.

2 Make of main engine

3 What would you do if the holding down bolts were slack.

4 Where are the end chocks fitted on an engine.

5 How would you assess the power of an engine.

6 Draw a power card.

7 What are the effects of late/early injection.

8 How would you check the fuel pump timing.

9 How would you check the tightness of a chain drive.

10 What is the period of machinery survey.

11 Tell me about ISM

12 How would you know that your ship is complying with ISM

13 Load line survey

14 Certificates retained onboard.

15 What would you check in the main circuit breakers.

16 Fitting inside switchboard.

17 Give details of electrical generation on your ship.

18 What type of fixed fire fighting system on your vessel.

19 How would you know if all the bottles for a particular space had been activated.

20 Boiler survey.

25/03/2010 GREENOCK Pass

1. Describe your last vessel(type, equipments etc)

2. What safety equipment attached on MSB? why is earthing dangerous? how it is detected

3. Prepare main engines for sea.

4. Rolls of MCA, IMO, port state control and classification society.

5. What will be your roll in engine room as 2nd engr to keep items related to marpol and stcw as per requirement.

6. PMS system explain, why necessary, who enforces this.

7. Intervals of various surveys.

8. STCW requirement, explain load line survey checks as 2/E.

9. Why send lub oil for analysis. what are included in analysis results

10. If sodium is found in excess with stern tube oil analysis result, what is to be done.

11. Can purifier remove sodium content back to normal.

12. How to bring ship to life after long lay off(no air in bottle, no battery to start engines)

13. What checks done on main engine and aux engines before pressing the start button

14. How to confirm power produced is equal on all units. of each engines

15. Draw power card and draw card, diff between them.

16. Calculate power from the diagram drawn for the unit.

17. How to adjust power for balancing.

18. Why not use fuel rack to adjust power balancing, what is the after effects if this used to increase diagram area.

19. Sox / Nox how to control

20. Oily water seperator explain how it works.

21. If chemical used in bilge water, effects it has on seperation.

22. SOPEP locker contents(looking for oil spill plan and ROB list)

23. Drydocking plan, how to prepare ship for drydock 1 month before vessel due.

24. How do you start every day work – planning and distribution.

25. What fixed fire fighting system fitted last vessel?

26. How to check level of co2 in bottle, how often checked.

28/03/2010 GREENOCK Pass

1 Engine power

2 Fuel consumption

3 Factors affecting engine performance

4 Main engine survey

5 Fuel change over requirements

6 Checks carried out after grounding

7 Dry dock survey

8 Flag state survey

9 Scavenge fire

10 Safe manning certificate.

11 Precautions to take with electric motors after dry dock in cold climates.

12 Reasons for alternator not developing current after dry dock.

13 Precautions before dry dock.

14 Boiler survey.

28/03/2010 GREENOCK Pass

1. What type of vessels sailed on
2. What is the main engines from my last ship
3. What type of electrical generation plant
4. How to share loads on shaft generators
5. How to spread loads on switchboard
6. Go through the procedure for changing a piston on you last ship
7. Explain various indications of poor engine performance
8. Draw a draw card and explain different symptoms and effects on card line
9. What faults can occur on individual units
10. Remedies for faults on individual units
11. Remedies to improve whole engine performance
12. Certificate name and explain the regulations of Annex 6 and areas
13. What markings would indicate that annex 6 is being followed to
14. Where would you find the certificates and who governs them
15. Your ship is going to dry dock, as 2nd Engineer explain what measures you make sure are in place before arrival
16. Explain about shore power and precautions taken
17. Effects of different shore power rates
18. Once in dry dock, what inspections are done first
19. what rudder inspections would you do
20. What clearances are taken
21. Explain different types of shaft bearings and stern tube arrangements
22. What other hull inspections are carried out
23. Certificates for hull paint work
24. Different types of anodes
25. Draw a cross section of a container ship and explain what tank inspections are carried out and what you are looking for – explained about ballast tank inspections
26. If Class come onboard, what as 2nd would you expect to show them around
27. Asked about different items Class cover such as planned maintenance
28. For boiler surveys, what things would the Surveyor want to look at and be looking for
29. What is the effects of damaged tubes
30. Explain how different conditions of feed water may affect boiler condition
31. What settings are the safety valves set to
32. Explain other safeties on the boiler and how they are checked for the Surveyor
33. As 2nd Engineer, what would you do if your motorman has asked to go home due to family grievance – explained about safe manning certificate allowance

25/06/2010 ABERDEEN Pass

1 Type of ship

2 Type of engine, boilers, etc.

3 Piston removal.

4 Checks on piston and liner.

5 What checks must be done when boxing up unit.

6 Draw and explain starting air system.

7 How is ahead and astern starting achieved.

8 Fire in engine room, your actions.

9 Fire out of control,- CO2 flooding procedure.

10 Who has final say on CO2 release.

11 How will you know all bottles have been released.

12 Regulations regarding CO2 flooding ( 85% in 2 mins)

13 Tell me about stability – draw and explain FSE angle of loll

14 Minimum GM.

15 How do engineers affect stability.

16 Draw and explain circuit for emergency generator starting.

17 Type of electric motors.

18 Where do you find induction and synchronous motors.

19 Full procedure for motor overhaul.

20 Define singlr phasing and effects on running/stopped motor.

21 Draw a basic fridge system.

22 Explain what equalizing line is for.

23 Reason for bubbles in sight glass.

24 How do you charge a fridge system.

25 Checks and indications of efficiently running plant.

26 4th calls you with a boiler drum low water level.

27 Why do we treat feed water.

28 Tests and reason for tests.

29 High chlorides, reasons/actions.

30 If there was no siphon tube in a CO2 bottle what would happen.

31 Steering Gear regulations.

32 Tanker SG regs.

33 Test procedure before departing.

34 Reason for juddery SG.

35 What takes rudder weight.

36 What is MARPOL Annexe 1 rules and regs.

37 What is MARPOL Annexe 6 rules and regs.

38 ISM

27/07/2010 GREENOCK PASSED

1. As second engineer, sketch and describe how you will take crankshaft deflections of M/E ? Precautions to be taken?
2. How you will record the readings? Draw the procedure for recording?
3. Why crankshaft deflections are taken? What happens if the value exceeded the limits?
4. What you will check?
5. How will you check the main bearing clearances? And what will you do if clearances are exceeded?
6. How will you replace the main bearing?
7. What are the check you will carry out on a removed bearing shell?
8. Why you will use moleycoat for new bearing while fitting it back?
9. What is the composition of moleycoat?
10. How you will come to know that any bearing has wiped out?
11. What you will check in lub oil analysis report?
12. What are the test carried out for metallic particles?
13. What is spectrograpic test? Have you seen the test report on your ship? What does it indicate?
14. What are the metals to be found in lub oil?
15. What was the steering gear on your last ship? What type of other steering gear you have seen?
16. What are the difference between rotary vane and 4 ram electro hydraulic?
17. Sketch any one steering gear ? show that how you will isolate it?
18. How will you take performances? Draw both the cards you take during performances?
19. If in a unit Pmax is lower and Exhaust temp. Is higher, then what could be the cause?
20. How you will check fuel timing for M/E fuel pump?
21. Prepare your ship for dry docking?
22. Ship is about to get laid on keel blocks, where you will be standing and what you will be doing?
23. What are the things inside shore connection box?
24. Can we connect shore supply with MSB supply?
25. What will be the effect of different voltages?
26. What if shore personel give you 440v and 50 hz, will you accept that?
27. Why will you tell him to decrease the voltage in same proportion?
28. What are the safeties on switch board?
29. How and when you will check the safeties on switch board?
30. Who will survey it?
31. How you will prepare the boiler of survey?
32. What you will be looking as 2nd engineer in the boiler?
33. What are the tests carreid out and why?
34. Limits of p alkalinity, PH, chloride?
35. What if the value of p alkalinity increases, value of ph decreases, value of chloride increases?
36. What will be you actions in each case?
37. Why survey’s are carried out? What are the certificates carried onboard and who issues them?
38. Ship is doing its first loading and first bunkering , what is continously changing?
39. What is G, M , GM, GZ?
40. Condition for stability?
41. If loading is done only at forward end of the ship, what effect will happen on ship’s structure?
42. Sketch a longitudinal structure of stuctrure and describe about framing?

JULY 28, 2010 GREENOCK Pass
1. You joined ship as 2nd Engineer and Chief Engr has asked you to take main engine performance. Explained full procedure to take performance. Cards, parameters.
2. What all you will get from cards? Draw card, power card, calculation of power, what all parameters effect power.
3. In draw card P max is low? Checks and remedies. Fuel pump, chain, timing , to check
4. Carry out crankcase inspection ? checks , safety, deflection, loose parts, hot spots, any other marks, bearing clearances, deflection, any particle in side the sump.
5. How to take deflection, and what all you get from deflection.
6. Main bearing is worn out, what all indications you will get? While turning ampere will be high, metal particles in L O backflush filter, diff pressure high, lube oil analysis reports ( al and tin).
7. What is IMO and Its functioning.?
8. Explain about STCW 95 ( rest hour log imp).
9. Difference between statutory and non statutory certificates ( flag and class) ?
10. Hull survey in Drydock ? as 2nd engr what all you will check? Propeller , rudder, stern tube , hull condition, overboard valves conditions, etc…..
11. Port state control inspection in SECA area ? what all they check ?,
12. Change over procedure from HFO to GAS oil. Time to change over ?,
13. Oile record book enteries, what all do we record?
14. Ballast tank entry procedure? , inside checks, pitting , cracks, anodes condition, coation condition, pitting marks under bell mouth due to turbulence of water.
15. Leakage between cargo tank and ballast tank? How to rectify leakage, inform class about that, welding work in dock and again inspection by class.
16. Under water welding ? inspection?
17. Hazards to engine crew in drydock? Explained about fire safety, regular fire and safety watch. Fire line from shore, ship’s co2 system is not in use,
18. Before departure from drydock what u will check on fire system ? co2 system , connections.
19. 4th engr calls u in middle of night and tell u that he has started no2 dg and and it is showing zero voltage , what all you check, excitation, how to excite dg,
20. Engine providing max power but the speed is less? Reasons wind, weather, fouling on hull.
21. Crossing suez canal, suddenly ship is listed towards port side. Grounding, what all u will check .
Sound all engine room tanks, change over sea chest to high, condition at bottom platform, after floating take main engine deflection.
22. Your oiler’s Girl Fried is pregnant and he is asking for sign off? As per Min manning certificate check.
23. Now oiler’s wife is pregnant and he wants urgent sign off? Request chief and master , under this circumstances we can by pass min manning certificate by takking and exemption from flag state. If its really necessary you can request exemption certificate from flag state.
Finish.

29/07/2010 Greenock Pass

1.Type of ships worked upon discussed.
2.Engine stroke.
3.Difference between long stroke in new engines.Advantages
4.Cross section of cylinder liner.Insisted upon bore cooling.Liner material.
5.Pcomp low,reasons,indications.
6.Jacket water treatment,why treatment ,name of chemicals.
7.Survey of main engine thrust block.Preparation and putting back.
8.Vibration dampeners.
9.Certificates,issued by whom,validity.insisted upon pollution insurance certificates.
10.Differences between annual,intermediate surveys.
11.Ism,Hssc,Doc,Smc.
12.Cross section of oil tanker.Strenghthening members.
13.Metal used for construction,why.advantages
14.Drydock checks.
15.Star delta method.D-O-L method.Why star delta
16.Maintanence on Star delta circuit breakers.
17.Overload trip on D-O-L starter.Wanted delay in trips.
18.Undercharge in refrigerant circuit.Causes,effects and how do you identify.
19.Lpg tankers construction discussed.
20.Temperature caliberators,working principle.

29/07/2010 GREENOCK PASS
1. Your last ship?
2. Write ISM 13 points?
3. You have started new company & initially you got 2 ships, what you need to have? (DOC)
4. Who issue them? DOC validity? Were you will find it? How do u get?
5. SOLAS chapter for bulk carrier?
6. Your ship is at anchorage, boiler survey will be carried out, prepare for Boiler survey?
7. For boiler survey, what things would the surveyor want to look at? What will you check?
8. Assemble safety valve?
9. Your 4th eng has just joined , what guidance will you give for pumping bilge through OWS
10. OIL RECORD BOOK
11. Draw Indicator card diagram? Draw a draw card?
12. If injector is dripping draw a draw card?
13. Calculate specific fuel consumption
14. Safety on main switchboard?
15. What is AVR? How it works? What if AVR does not work? What you will do?
16. Ballast pump insulation testing?
17. What instrument used to check insulation?
18. What is the value of low insulation alarm?

Place: -Greenock Class2 Orals on 27th July 2010 Tuesday 1515 hrs Result:- Passed

Started with
‘I will ask you as if you are second engineer’ and explained about fire alarm sound emergency exit and muster point of the building.
What type of ships have you done?
Only oil Tanker
What cargo carried?
Veg oil, palm oil, clean products and crude oil
(in all 35 months sea time after class4 coc)
1) With regard to enclosed place entry, what will you do as 2nd eng?
I told I will take print out of enclosed space entry check list from Companies QMS and arrange for table top meeting before proceeding for the job and also explained about the points in the checklist
Like draining, opening, blanking, placards, ventilation communication etc.
What all dangers are in enclosed space?
I told about lack of O2 presence of toxic vapours and hydrocarbons (surveyor was not specific of which kind of enclosed place and location) told about venting and exhausting of hydrocarbons out of ER not using the ER blowers for air inlet etc.
2) Why do company has QMS system on ship(safety management system) or PMS ?
I told him about ISM code “SOLAS chapter 9 ISM Code content about maintenance of ship machinery and equipment” DOC and SMS
3) Tell me all contents of ISM?
Contents of ISM Part A Implementation and its sub contents like general, definition, etc…..And Part B certification verification n control
4) Who issues DOC and SMS?
Told about administration and Recognised organisation issues DOC to company has original ship has copy 3 months of evaluation ,evidence of ship complying on ISM and then verification of DOC then issue of SMS to ship etc..
5) Chief eng tells that an internal Auditor will be coming what all preparation will you do ?
Told about Completion of pending Jobs in PMS and the jobs not possible to complete for unavoidable reasons sufficient evidence to be kept ready ,junior officers to be given relevant jobs to complete and acknowledge in PMS about the same, to take an checklist print out of all the files and documents to be checked all completed, numbered etc.. Unwanted expired documents removed, relevant placards and notices posted etc..
6) What all Certificates does a ship carry?
I told only certificates , and not the documents, told only 10, he was not happy (at the end of oral he said ,he wants in all 18 cert. asked me if I ever seen certificates on board ship, I told I had seen certificates what Chief eng has with him regarding OWS IOPP ORB-I
7) What is ITC who issues what is ILCC who issues why it is issued?
I was not so sure I told him about the history why ILLC was introduced. I forgot to tell him about Class Cert. and also about Type A and Type B ships need to explain about freeboard and all.
8) As n 2nd what check will you do during Load line survey?
Water tight integrity, WTB penetrations like cable glands shafting stuffing box, sounding pipes self closing cocks ,pressure release valve free of paint and operational, ER to Steering flat door seal ( he reminded me about steering flat poop deck ventilation ) skylight , OVBD valves in steering flat , swimming pool OVBD Valve, Aft hyd oil cooler OVBD valve etc..
He wanted me to tell about Water tight door, so he asked what kind of door is in between ER and steering flat I told him Fire door, he asked no water tight door ..I said no and I told him I never seen one so I don’t know its exact location but told him about water tight door on double duct keel water tight door(one on port and one on stbd ) and its operation’ he also wanted me to tell about Bow thrusters tunnel ..I told him that I never had sailed on ship having any thrusters.
9) What kind of fixed Fire fighting system you had on Board?
Told Him about Last ship ER CO2, deck Foam, ER, PX, BLR, INC, ME, IGG, AE hypermist
10) On releasing CO2 how will you know if any of the bottle is not released?
He was happy when I told not to touch the bottles and sufficient ventilation in the room itself before entry.
11) in un uncertain case during normal voyage if only one bottle bursting disc is ruptured how will you know?
12) where is pressure gauge located on the CO2 line and pressure switch?
13) what all check will surveyor will like to conduct in CO2 room?
14) what all maintenance will u do as 2nd?
15) when survey of CO2 is carried out? 2 yrs weight of CO2 etc..
16) He told me that CO2 ,foam is active fire fighting system then what is passive fire fighting system installed ? I was confused I started telling about extinguishers, IG foam, he interrupted and asked me what is in Acc. I told sprinklers, he said ok still it is active ,then I remembered ventilation and dampers he seemed relaxed and then he knocked on the wall Then I told about Class A Class B bulkhead SOLAS chapter II -2 Construction, fire protection regulation and what is Class A 60 b30 means.
17) Draw longitudinal section of Type A ship?
In my drawing I showed distance of transverse frames, WTB cargo TK, FWD collision Bhd , cofferdam Fwd/ Aft propeller ,rudder, bulbusbow. Acc.
18) On the base of drawing he started asking question as what is Fwd Collision Bhd and purpose?
19) What is cofferdam and purpose?
20) About pump room what are the dangers involved?
Apart from dangers I also told him about Ventilation in pump room (Refer SOLAS)
21) What kind of light fittings are in pump room?
22) When I was telling about this he also asked about if any electric motor in Pump room?
23) MOTOR:- you are taking peak pressures and you find all the units Exhaust temp is low as well as P max is low rest all the sea conditions are good and rest all is normal?
I told about time retard due to chain elongation
24) he asked me what will you do then ?
I told about consulting CE, super and maker either removing link or retarding chain by turning cam sprocket and retensioning chain
25) How retensioning is done?
I told method of compression spring and refer manual in very brief.
26) What about Turbo what you will check?
I told about pressure droop at cooler and air filter. (he wanted to know about labyrinth seals about its function purpose)
I couldn’t figure it at that time he asked me then about what pressure in Turbo exhaust side with respect to blower side?
After this he said that he will want to know exact details about labyrinth seal when appearing for Chief orals.
27) When ship is in dry dock lot of things are needed to be taken care off , so when ship is laid on keel blocks after ship is dry and all what 2 thing will you check, usually avoided by 2nd eng in dry dock?
I told about checking the Propeller Drop and Rudder Drop
28) How it is checked
29) What kind of bearing is rudder carrier bearing and where it is located?
I told him it is self centring taper cast steel type etc..
He asked me what type of bearing?
I was mumbled… so he asked what bearing does electric motor has?.. I said ball bearing
Then I said pedestrial bearing. Still he was not seemed to be happy.
30) what kind of shaft seal arrangement? How oil leak is prevented when ship laying in drydock?
I told him about simplex shaft seal and is arrangement .
31) what exactly prevents oil leak from seal when out at sea?
I told about sea water pressure head action on outward seal.
31) what type of boiler do you had on ship?
I said 30 CPH sunrod water tube boiler. ( He interrupted and said he did not want to Know the manufacturer brand names.)
32) Who will check the safety valve settings? ( Class or flag surveyor)
33) How will you do setting of safety valve?
34) What is compression nut and compression rings?
35) What does gagging means?
36) Boiler water treatment, what type of chemicals are added?
I told NaOH for alkalinity, Oxygen scavenger if required and Condensate treatment containing volatile amines like DEHA for displacing dissolved gasses, phosphates for treating calcium salts etc..all I said about the chemical composition and tried to avoid brand names.
(Tough in the end of oral exam he said he did not wanted to here brand names like BWT)
37) Where else chemical treatment is required?
ME jacket water treated with Nitrides
38) Why It is treated with Nitrides?
To have proper Sealing of O-rings, avoid scale formation and Corrosion.
39) What readings you note during test of ME AE Jacket water?
Nitrides, Ph, alkalinity, Hardness and chlorides
40) What are the approximate values?
Nitrides 1400ppm, Ph 8.3 Chlorides 0 to 50 ppm
41) Why the ME jacket water needed to be alkaline?
42) One day 4th Eng comes at reports to you that the Nitride level is excessive in ME Jacket water, what actions will you take?
I could not tell the effects of Nitride level if high ( In the end of Oral exam he told me to find out the reason)I could find after exam that It can increase chlorides ( not sure)
43) Regarding starting of ME from where ME can be started?
Bridge, ECR and Emg. Local control
44) What is inside the bridge control which starts engine?
Electro Pneumatic solenoid valves and electrical instrument variable transformer which gives signal to ME electronic governor.
45) so what maintenance is required on this equipment on bridge?
General cleaning using blower, tightness, pneumatic instrument air filters etc
46) What problem occurs with Pneumatic operated solenoid valves?
Sticking of spool due to moisture and oily mixtures, brittle o-ring.
47) What has to be done to avoid this problems?
Clean oil and water free instrument control air to be supplied.
48) How would you achieve such air?
Maintaining Air compressors, control air comp. if any, draining of air bottles, control air bottles, changing oil trap filters as per condition monitoring, maintaining drier.
49) What kind of driers?
Chemical drier filled with silicon gel balls and refrigerant drier.
50) What kind of maintenance is carried out on drier?
Draining auto changing silencer filter and electric solenoid valve, replacing silicon gel balls, draining of ref, drier, cleaning fan ,evaporator coil dry clean, hermatic comp foundation tightness, insulation etc.

51) What type of electrical system was there on board on your ship?
3 phase 3 wire 440V 60 Hz
52) What is three phase Why 3 Phase?
53) Draw an alternator?
Stator rotor
54) How do you get 440V?
I gave wrong answer and told about RPM, No. of poles and frequency relation formula ( surveyor was giving me hint by saying alternator has fixed poles..)
I said I don’t know (At that time I forgot to mention basic formula of E= No. of poles X flux where E=440V, No. of poles 5 pair are known values, then required is the flux generated by increasing excitation.
55) In the stator of alternator what is phase voltage and line voltage when generating 440V?
I was blanked at the time as I lost confidence in electrical and confused hence made a mistake while telling about the same.
56) Draw AVR?
57) How does AVR works?
58) ACB how does it work?
59) What are the safety features in ACB?
60) How ACB can be tested?
61) How do you test overload current in ACB? Have you ever done it?
I said Don’t know ( at that time I did not remember about dead bus bar and simulation test)
So I think he started to give hint in next question to answer about the same.
62) What all Instruments do you see on MSBD (main switch board)?
Amp meters, volt meters, instrument transformers, earth lamps, indicator lamps etc.
63) (Missed question) what is IOPP and how it is issued who issues it?
IT was almost 1 hr 15 mins now so exam was over and he told me about where I need to be improved before I come to do my chief’s Ek . I told him since I did not appear for my Academics my electrical was not so good. He told me not to mention Brand names , manufacturer names whenever asked about the type of machine and or chemicals and lubricating oil.( I somehow figured it out and avoided telling any brand names as such)

Greenock August 2010 Pass

1 What are the 14 chapters of ISM
2 What ships have you been on
3 What were the engines on your last ship
4 Bore/Stroke/RPM
5 From beginning how do you replace a main bearing
6 How do you check main bearing clearances
7 From RPM and frequency how do you calculate the number of poles
8 What is MARPOL
9 What are all the annexes
10 How would you pump oily water overboard
11 What are the special areas
12 If a motor man was new how would you show him around the engine room and what would you show him
13 What are the hours of rest
14 Certificates onboard.

Belfast 02/08/2010 Pass
1. General talk about the ship and the engine sailed on.
2. Purpose of Holding down bolts.
3. Why the holding down bolts are constructed long.
4. What will affect the Crank shaft misalignment?
5. Procedure for Crank shaft deflection.
6. Checks during Crank case inspection.
7. What is a Transverse guide?
8. How they are fixed inside the crank case?
9. How the bearing metal is fitted on to the shell.
10. What are all the things you will check at the time of bearing metal inspection?
11. How will you come to know the bearing metal is in good condition or not?
12. How will you check that the L.O is in good condition?
13. What are all the factors you will check in the L.O analysis report.
14. Reasons for the Iron particles in the L.O sample.
15. What is a Tie rod bolts and where they are used and why?
16. How will you maintain the L.O in good condition?
17. Working and operation of a purifier.
18. Difference between Main engine L.O and a Generator L.O.
19. Why the flash point of the Generator L.O is more when compare will Main engine L.O.
20. What will changes the flash point of the L.O.?
21. When synchronizing a generator what are all the things you will check?
22. What happens if the generator starts to run as a motor?
23. If the reverse power current trip is not working then what will happen?
24. What are all the safety devices present in the main switch board?
25. What is an earth fault?
26. How will you identify an earth fault?
27. What is COSWP?
28. What does the Chapter 1 states?
29. How will you ensure Personal Health and Safety?
30. If a junior is working near running machinery which is in auto mode as a second engineer how will you ensure the safety of that person.
31. What will you check when you are using Engine room crane.
32. From where you will get the information of the S.W.L?
33. Who will issue the certificate?
34. What is ISPS and how you are implementing onboard?
35. Will you allow any personnel inside the engine room?
36. Duties of PSC and what are all the things they will check onboard?
37. What is SOPEP?
38. Ship coming out of the port how will you make sure the ship is Seaworthy?
39. Stability of the ship.
Belfast 02/08/2010 Pass
1. General talk about the ship and the engine sailed on.
2. Areas ships sailed on.
3. SECA- FO Sulphur content.
4. New regulations about FO Sulphur content.
5. Properties of Cylinder LO.
6. What is TBN?
7. How will you select Cylinder oil based on Sulphur content?
8. What will happen if high TBN Cylinder oil used for low Sulphur fuel?
9. What happens if stroke length of liner is increased?
10. What will you do during the uptake fire?
11. T/C – How rotor blades are fixed?
12. T/C – What type of bearings are used?
13. How efficiency of T/C reduced?
14. How will you clean T/C turbine side?
15. Precautions to be followed while doing turbine washing.
16. How T/C blower efficiency reduces?
17. How exhaust temperatures are measured, especially remote one.
18. What does the power card indicates?
19. What is the difference between a power card and a draw card?
20. How will you take power card?
21. Scavenge fire – Indications.
22. What are the causes of scavenge fire?
23. Measures to avoid scavenge fire.
24. Checks made after scavenge fire.
25. How will you extinguish scavenge fire when it is a big fire?
26. Where is the oil from under piston space drain directed?
27. Stuffing box construction?
28. How will you ensure that stuffing box is working satisfactorily?
29. Is there any possibility of oil other than cylinder oil to enter in to under piston spaces?
30. Why air from T/C is passed through air cooler?
31. How and why moisture or water from air separated?
32. Where does water from water separator drain to?
33. What is the difference between CPP and fixed pitch propeller?
34. How oily bilges are pumped out?
35. Regulations for pumping oily bilge?
36. Causes for oil and water not getting separated?
37. How emulsions are formed?
38. Sources of fire in E/R.
39. What chemical is used in case of oil leak in E/R?
40. What properties should an OSD possess?
41. In case of fire detected? What immediate actions to be taken?
42. Co2 system – operation.
43. Actions to be taken after releasing Co2 (Include boundary cooling).
44. What is enclosed space?
45. What precautions and procedures to be followed for enclosed space entry?
46. After complete ventilation – detected full oxygen is there any possibility of presence of hazardous gas inside the tank.
47. In a double bottom tank or cofferdam causes for oxygen deficiency?
48. Why are we testing boiler water?
49. Causes of high chloride level in Boiler water? And its effects.
50. F.W.G Salinometer?
51. What two important points that you will inform a joined engineer about operation of Boiler?
52. Is your ship on UMS or on watch?
53. What are the two main things to put a ship on UMS?
54. What are earth faults?
55. How single earth fault detected?
56. What happens if second earth fault happens?
57. During bunkering operation how stability of ship is maintained?
58. What affects ship stability (Free Surface Effect)
59. What is free surface effect?
60. What are the certificates a ship must carry?
61. What is Safe management certificate?
62. What does it state? Is it ISM?

Belfast 02/08/2010 Pass
1. General talk about the ship and the engine sailed on.
2. How the engine is started?
3. Draw and explain the starting air line?
4. What are the faults that could happen in an Air compressor?
5. Problems that could happen in a starting air line?
6. Where does the staring air distributor get drive from?
7. Asked about fuel injection system in Intelligent engine(as my engine was Intelligent engine)
8. How cylinder lubrication system works in an intelligent engine.
9. How does the fuel injection valve actuator works?
10. How can you adjust the feed of a cylinder lubricator in this engine?
11. How can you make sure that the feed to the engine is correct?
12. What are all the various wears in cylinder liner?
13. How to take liner calibration?
14. What is the cylinder liner material?
15. What is the piston ring material?
16. Which is harder and why?
17. How the piston is cooled?
18. How the thrust is transmitted to the ship’s hull?
19. What are all the checks carried out in the dry dock inspection when you walk under the keel?
20. How do you carry out a fire drill?
21. How do you fight a LNG spill?
22. Explain the re-liquefaction process of LNG?
23. Gas detection system? Where it is installed?
24. How the cargo tanks are placed on deck?
25. How the cryogenic cargo tanks are insulated from the ship’s hull?
26. What are the problems that can come in a domestic refrigeration system?
27. What precaution you take when you work on a refrigeration system?
28. Where the vent of the refrigeration system is vented to?
29. How many compartments can be flooded to avoid sinking of ship?
30. What is a stable and unstable ship?
31. What is GZ?
32. How do you train the crew members?
33. Where can you find the information about the training to be given to the crew members?
34. Which convention states about the ship stability and construction?
35. International load line convention?

Belfast Pass 08/11/10

• General talk about the ship
• Handing over to new Second Engineer
• Preparation for T/C survey
• Draw a T/C diagram and explain the purpose of various parts( K valve and labyrinth seal)
• T/C Lubrication principle
• Onboard L.O Test and properties (Bacterial attack)
• L.O shore test
• What will happen if we use C/C L.O for Cyl L.O
• Oiler reported to you that L.O coming out of sounding pipe for the running generator(Dip Stick)
Causes
• How will you come to know the particular unit has a blow by
• Stuffing box cross section and its principle
• Draw scrapper ring and how will you make sure that the rings are in good condition for reuse
• Engine room blackout Emcy generator didn’t start what will you check first( Auto/Manual C/O Switch)
• How will you do an on load test for Emcy generator
• 2 stroke and 4 stroke difference
• Why long stroke( Bad F.O takes longer time to burn)
• Unit job (Cyl Head removal) Preparation and Procedure
• Engine room fire what will you do
• Chief engineer discharged co2 from fire station, how will you confirm that all the bottles are discharged from co2 room(cold bottles)
• LPG tank gauge working principle
• What was the Sulphur content in F.O (4.5%)
• What if your ship goes to European waters

3/12/ 10 Greenock Pass

Q: Types of ship sailed on? Machinery and cargos carried in last ship?
Q: Go through procedure for overhauling M/E unit.
Q: at what pr cyl a head nut opens?
Q: what will you do if nut is not opening?(suggested can b cut in case everything else fails and provided u have a spare)
Q: what do u check on cyl liner, what will b indications of poor lubrication?
Q: what is expected wear rate of the liner, and what is max allowed wear?
Q: what check to carry out on piston?
Q: what’s importance of correct depth of piston ring groves, and how will u check it?
Q: if piston ring grove is wears out draw a wear patron of the grove.
Q: what material piston is made of, is it differs in any place (indicating on piston ring grove)
Q: what more checks you carry out on a piston, if there r scratch marks on piston rod what can be the reason?
Q: why and how a pressure test is carried out on a piston?
Q: precautions to be taken while boxing back the unit?
Q: how will you know that the spares available onboard are of correct specifications, what certificate it affects if they are not original?
Q: what else can effect Nox emission?
Q: do you know another way to keep Nox emissions in control?
Q: after boxing back run the engine presuming you have put new piston rings?
Q: what type of lubricators you have worked on, how do you control quantity of oil?
Q: do you know any other methods that can be used for cyl lubrication? (Solenoid operated lubricators controlled by engine load control program)
Q: what will u check for monitoring condition for the overhauled unit?
Q: if power in the unit is higher as compared to other units what can be the reason?
Q: how do you measure power?
Q: how often you carry our survey on engine?
Q: how many controls are there to control fuel injection timing and quantity?
Q: how do you measure lead in B&W?
Q: what will you do if it is not correct?
Q: what else you check for monitoring?
Q: what do you do to jacket cooling water and why?
Q: why you have nitrates?
Q: any other water u test?
Q: what is problem of having high chlorides in boiler water, what can be source?
Q: what risk is there if oil gets in the boiler?
Q: what is difference between ship safety construction certificate and safety equipment certificate?
Q: what other surveys you carry out other than machinery and how often?
Q: what all is checked in Load line survey?
Q: have you seen a working inert gas plant, can you explain working?
Q: do you any other method of generating inert gas?
Q: why inert gas is used? At what % of oxygen high level alarm is there and why?
Q: who decides and delegate work responsibilities onboard ship and on what basis?
Q u send a trainee wiper or j/e for some job do you trust them, whom you can send to supervise them if you are busy with another job?
Q: what is port state, what does it do?
Q: chief calls u and say psc onboard describe your actions?
Q: what will psc inspector check in the e/r?
Q: y he is interested to c self closing device on sounding pipe are not disabled?
Q: what documents he will be interested to check?
Q: why is he interested to check ORB and BDN?
Q: what will he check in BDN that related to pollution, and what part it has in annex 6 of marpol?
Q: any other special requirements a ship is to met if they are breathing in port Glasgow?
Q: how will you tackle economizer fire?
Q: what will you do if fire changes to a major fire?

03rd DEC, 2010 GREENOCK PASSED
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1.) Started with How would you measure the Power being produced in the Engine and how to calculate the same.
2.) Draw power and draw cards explaining each briefly.
3.) Draw curves for late injection, early injection, Leaky injector.
4.) While at sea, the main engine is producing adequate power with all the parameters normal but the speed of ship is less. What could be the reason and what measures need to be taken on discovering the problem. ( Hull Fouling)
5.) On reaching port what is to be done in order to rectify.( arrange underwater inspection by divers and scraping the hull from marine growth)
6.) As a second Engineer, how would you make sure that the crew of the ship is following all safety measures and precautions.
7.) How will you assign work to the crew before commencing a main engine unit overhaul.
8.) He moved on to dry docking and went very deeply inside the dry dock.
9.) What would be the surveyor interested in looking outside of the ship in dry dock.
10.) How do carry our preparations for the dry dock.
11.) What do you need to send to the dock people before you arrive in the dock. ( A docking plan)
12.) What checks as a second engineer you would carry out in the dry dock.
13.) What areas outside the ship are more susceptible for dents.
14.) Rudder Inspection Propeller checks in dry dock
15.) How would you measure propeller drop.
16.) Ship is going to float soon in dry dock, what checks do you carry out in the engine room.
17.) What checks to carry out other than in the engine room. I was a little confused so he gave me an hint saying that this particular area is usually forgotton by second thinking that chief mate would have done that. Immediately it striked me and I told him that Pump Room sea chest. He wanted to hear that.
18.) How would you restore ships electrical power once ship is floating.
19.) What if the generator is not showing any voltage .
20.) Types of Surveys.
21.) Certificates held onboard.
22.) Who issues Doc and Smc.
23.) What is condition Monitoring.
24.) Give some examples of conditioning monitoring.
25.) What kind of PMS system onboard.
26.) 4th Engineer is soon going to start overhauling the sea water pump, what all things as a second eng.you need to check before dismantling the same.
27.) How would you check M.E fuel pump timing when the engine is stopped.
28.) Reasons for wrong timing.
29.) Where anodes are fitted on the hull.
30.) What kind of paint is used for painting the hull
31.) How will you show the surveyor that the paint which is being used is environment friendly and is non toxic to marine life. ( anti-fouling cert.)

Belfast 11/04/11 PASS

Surveyor requested to see testimonials and Discharge book, then asked what I thought of a couple of the ships.
Asked about type of Lube oil tests carried out on board. What I expected to see in the results if the samples were sent ashore?
He said that as 2/E the generator is loosing oil, what would you check?
If the generator crankcase is pressurised what do you suspect as the cause?
How would you find the exact area of the problem.
As 2nd, the chief tells you take main engine power cards, how do you go about it?
On you Diesel doctor computer, how does it know the speed of the engine?
Sketch a “Draw card”, the surveyor selected several points on the sketch, then asked me explain each.
The surveyor then drew another curve on the draw card and asked what the cause of this could be? (E.g choked injector) he then drew a second line and asked me to explain.
What safeties do you have on the generators?
As 2nd, the 3/E and 4/E are overhauling a generator and have removed the bottom end bearings, tell me what you would be checking for?
Surveyor drew a bearing shell with damage and asked me what this was. E.g embedding of solids on the bearing.
Imagine you are 2nd and the chief has phoned down to tell you a surveyor wishes to inspect the ME crosshead bearing in the port. Tell me how you prepare for the surveyors inspection.
The surveyor referred back to my testimonials as noticed that most of my ships were 2 stroke, CPP, then picked the one ship that was variable speed, reversing, then asked questions from there.
How does the bridge controls control the main engine?
How does the telegraph control system control the engine speed?
Can they simply speed up to full speed anytime they wish?
As an engineer, do you have any control over what they do? (I had mention taking ECR control in emergencies, but normally, via good communications)
Does the main engine run at full load at all times? Can the bridge go to 100%?
What controlled the ME speed locally? Eg digital governor
What are the safeties on the main engine?
What about the cylinder heads?
Tell me about a crankcase explosion (what happens)
After mentioning secondary explosions, how are these prevented?
Can you explain an OMD? (I then drew a sketch and explained.)
Draw me your jacket water system.
The surveyor pointed at the 3 way valve at the cooler I had drawn on the JW Sketch and asked how it controlled the system temp
He asked me to indicated this on the sketch. I then drew PI control, Master and Slave.
Tell me about your Inert gas safeties?
After mentioning 3 or 4 safties, surveyor asked me to explain how an oxygen sensor worked.
Do you have CO2 as a fixed system? (yes) As 2nd, you are going to inspect the co2 room, what check do you carry out in the room?
You are on watch, during cargo operations, there is a general alarm. What do you do?
It has now been reported that the pumpman and C/O are missing, last seen entering the pump room. You are in charge of the rescue team, what are your actions?
End of Orals.

2nd Engineer Orals
Belfast
Time 1Hour.
11/04/11 PASS

Surveyor requested to see testimonials and Discharge book, then asked what I thought of a couple of the ships.
Asked about type of Lube oil tests carried out on board. What I expected to see in the results if the samples were sent ashore?
He said that as 2/E the generator is loosing oil, what would you check?
If the generator crankcase is pressurised what do you suspect as the cause?
How would you find the exact area of the problem.
As 2nd, the chief tells you take main engine power cards, how do you go about it?
On you Diesel doctor computer, how does it know the speed of the engine?
Sketch a “Draw card”, the surveyor selected several points on the sketch, then asked me explain each.
The surveyor then drew another curve on the draw card and asked what the cause of this could be? (E.g choked injector) he then drew a second line and asked me to explain.
What safeties do you have on the generators?
As 2nd, the 3/E and 4/E are overhauling a generator and have removed the bottom end bearings, tell me what you would be checking for?
Surveyor drew a bearing shell with damage and asked me what this was. E.g embedding of solids on the bearing.
Imagine you are 2nd and the chief has phoned down to tell you a surveyor wishes to inspect the ME crosshead bearing in the port. Tell me how you prepare for the surveyors inspection.
The surveyor referred back to my testimonials as noticed that most of my ships were 2 stroke, CPP, then picked the one ship that was variable speed, reversing, then asked questions from there.
How does the bridge controls control the main engine?
How does the telegraph control system control the engine speed?
Can they simply speed up to full speed anytime they wish?
As an engineer, do you have any control over what they do? (I had mention taking ECR control in emergencies, but normally, via good communications)
Does the main engine run at full load at all times? Can the bridge go to 100%?
What controlled the ME speed locally? Eg digital governor
What are the safeties on the main engine?
What about the cylinder heads?
Tell me about a crankcase explosion (what happens)
After mentioning secondary explosions, how are these prevented?
Can you explain an OMD? (I then drew a sketch and explained.)
Draw me your jacket water system.
The surveyor pointed at the 3 way valve at the cooler I had drawn on the JW Sketch and asked how it controlled the system temp
He asked me to indicated this on the sketch. I then drew PI control, Master and Slave.
Tell me about your Inert gas safeties?

ABERDEEN ORALS CLASS 2

DATE: 12/08/11 DURATION: 40 MINS RESULT: PASS

1) Crank case inspection procedure, deatil procedure how to carry out risk assessment and all work permits required[enclosed space entry permit, working aloft permit, electrical isolation permit, cold work permit] and what all to be inspected? Lube oil sampling and testing procedures. how does engaging of turning gear ensures that the engine will not start? [supply of control air to the main starting air valve and starting air distributor is restricted by a three way valve when the turning gear is engaged which ensures engine will not start]
2)what is sulphite reducing bacteria, what are the symptoms and sources of its ingress and what precautions to be taken to restrict its growth and what treatment is required?
3) Explain procedure for boiler survey, explain construction and advantages of improved high lift safety valve, explain procedure for setting of safety valve, what type of guage used for setting of safety valve and where is this special guage fitted?
4) Detail procedure for connection of Electrical shore supply in dry dock and what safety precautions to be taken?
5) Mention all safety related equipments, interlocks and alarms incorporated in Inert Gas system?
6) Draw and explain direct online starter, limits for using direct online starter and advantages of start-delta and auto transformer over direct online starter?
7) What is technical file, who issues it and what all has to be entered in technical file? [Engine maker]
8) Who issues Unmanned machinery space document/certificate and under what conditions is this Document/Certificate withdrawn? [Class]
9) Regulations pertaining to CO 2 system, what were the advantages of halon system over CO 2 system and which system similar to halon is permitted for installation and use nowadays? [FM 200 system installed on small vessels]
10) Explain constructional deatils about Hypermist system, its advantages and procedure for testing alarms?
11) What is reverse power trip, how does it operate , what is the general setting and methods of testing it? [both manual and simulation]
12) At management level what is your role onboard as per International Safety Management Code? What do you mean by critical equipment?

ABERDEEN ORALS CLASS 2
DATE: 12/08/2011 DURATION: 35 MINS RESULT: PASS
1) What is the difference between keyed and keyless propeller?
2) You have a crankcase inspection coming up next port, what preparations you will make at the earlier port for the same?
3) What checks will you carry out in crankcase inspection?
4) What will you check in OMD?
5) How do you understand that there is contamination by microbes in the oil? What is best suitable temperature for microbe survival?
6) Which ships do you find unbalanced rudder?
7) What kind of transformers you find in engine room?
8) What is the use of current transformer?
9) Draw refrigeration circuit for one room?
10) How will you know that the drier is choked? (Color change of silica gel or icing outside since flashing up takes place within the drier)
11) What is the use of fusible plug in the air bottle? What is the fusing temperature?(90 degrees)
12) What are the other safeties in air bottle?
13) How do you take main bearing clearance?
14) What is pinching bolt?

ABEERDEN ORAL QUESTIONS, 12TH AUGUST 2011 . Result:Pass

1.M/E , A/E , BoilerMake(make and working pressure) ,Type and power rating of the last vessel you’ve sailed on?

2.Type of the vessel, cargoes carried and the trading routes?

3.If I(surveyor) as your Chief Engineer inform you that we have a Piston overhaul coming up shortly, how will you go about it, explain in brief taking what all factors will you take into considerations and proceed with the overhaul, also explain me the complete overhauling procedure?

4.How is the Risk assessment carried out and how do you judge the Likehood of harm ?

5.What do you mean by im-mobilisation certificate, who issues it?what is done after the certificate has been issued?

6.What is the validity of the Heavy lifting gear test certificate?

7.What is the Cylinder-head nut opening pressure? What will you do if 1 of your cylinder head nuts fails to open at the prescribed working pressure, hat will be you actions?

8.Checks on the piston?

9.Piston ring clearances and how will you measure them(sketch and explain)?(axial, butt and radial)

10.Liner calibration, draw a liner wear profile diagram showing the minimum and maximum wear?

11.sketch showing the maximum wear area of the piston?

12.How is the piston pressure tested(not a very brief description required)?

13.Checks on the liner? What other than wear will you check on the liner(1 very important thing)?

14.What is the permissible liner wear(total)? Permissible liner wear rate per 1000 hours?

15.If your liner bore dia is 600 mm and during calibration you notice that the diameter now is 622 what will you do now? Will you replace the liner by a spare new one? if yes, why? If no, why?

16.Why is the wear rate more in the combustion zone ? why is the wear near the scavenge ports?

17.What do you understand by “Running In”?How much is the running in time?

18.If the vessel starts sailing for a long passage after the overhaul, what are the criterias which are to be taken into consideration with respect to lubricaton?

19.Where is Thermostatic expansion valve fitted ? what do you understand by AHU?

20.What do you understand by Bump Clearance, why is it required? Less Bumping Clearance is Desirable or more bumping Clearance is desirable, and why?

21.Why are boiler water tests carried out?

22.Why are steam traps fitted on the return steam line/coil?

23.What do you understand by steam/water hammering?

24.What could be after effects of Steam/Water hammering?

25.If you see a film oil in the observation tank, what would you do?

26.What could be the reason for the oil to come in to observation tank?Now since the oil is observed in the observation tank, will it enter the cascade tank now, how does the ater flow from the observation tank to cascade tank? How is this oil removed from the observation tank?

27.What are the crack detection methods used onboard?

28.What is one of the most important property of the non-ferrous material , which normally helps us in crack detection?

29.What do you understand by Star- Delta Starter, DOL starter and Auto Transformer Starter?

30.What is the difference in the Current and Voltage with respect to Line and Phase in both these starters?

31.What is the most important advantage of the Auto-Transformer starter over Star-Delta?Why are they not used everywhere in place of Star-Delta?

32.Where is the Auto-Transformer starter fitted in the E/Room?

33.What do you understand by Safety Management System?

34.What is your role as 2nd Engineer as a part of the management level officer with repect to safety management system for your engine-room?

35.With respect to fixed fire- fighting system on your ship, why is Co2 used over Halon System?What is the advantage of Halon over Co2?Why is Halon phased out?What is the disadvantage of Co2 over Halon?

36.Name the new gas which has been used onboard ships as a replacement of Co2.

Greenock December 2011 Pass

1 Properties of FO

2 Importance of checking water content, effect of water in FO.

3 2 stroke and 4 stroke timing diagrams.

4 Show the air starting valve operations and water in fuel condition in timing diagram.

5 Properties of LO

6 Cause and Effect of micro biological degradation

7 How properties of LO are affected by FO.

8 How can fuel contamination take place.

9 Difference between 2 stroke and 4 stroke bottom end bolts.

10 How can overspeed occur, how do you test overspeed on a generator.

11 Residual magnetism.

12 AVR

13 How do you release Co2, and how do you know the bottles are empty

14 How does the CPP operate.

15 How is CPP operated from the bridge, how can a failure occur, causes and remedies.

16 PID controller draw and explain.

17 J.W system, draw and explain

18 SMS

19 C/Case explosion causes and effects.

20 Early and Late injection remedy

21 Enclosed space entry procedures, if someone collapses whilst you are at entry point what would your actions be.

22 How would FO tank oxygen levels be depleted even after testing.

23 How can oxygen be depleted in ballast tanks.

Aberdeen 17/01/2012 Pass

He started off by asking what type of ships I’d worked on (Dive support, supply, standby), then said we’d be concentrating on big-ship stuff.

Piston overhaul, describe the procedure. I started talking about spares and he wanted to know what spares must be carried onboard. Talked about work permits, risk assessments. Lifting equipment and the certification of it (who issues it). Checks on piston, and ring clearances.

What certificates are onboard? I did poorly here, he was after quite a few.

ISM – what is it, how does it affect engineers, what is a N.C. and a few other abbreviations.

Bottom end bolts – why some have a finite life and some an infinite life.

Boiler safety valve – compare it to an air receiver relief valve, what are the differences? How much should the valve lift? Draw and describe the operation of the safety valve.

Turbochargers – Explain pulse & constant pressure turbocharging. What is surging & causes & effects?

Main engine starts and runs erratically, what could be the fault? Was looking for water in the fuel.

Electric motor – what causes degradation of the insulation? How to test I.R. and what the I.R. value should be over (was looking for a specific figure here).

I think that was all, during the exam i said ‘I think’ a few times, and it turns out he doesnt want to hear those words. If you don’t know it, dont say it.

09/01/12 Duration 45 minutes Greenock Pass

List Certificates held on board
Give durations of expiry and re-survey of ones he selected.
Surveyor wants to see a main engine main bearing, describe whole process from the very start.
Describe what you’d be looking for on the bearing
What would you be looking for on the back of the bearing?
Procedure after re-installing the bearing to return engine to service
What do you know about ISM, history, purpose?
List the 13 points, he stopped me at 8.
Two motormen don’t get along. As second engineer, what do you do?

5/04/2012 in Aberdeen

Result Pass Duration 45min

1)General chat about ships I have sailed on, then about pre-watch and watch keeping routines, handover and checks
2)Power calculations for 2 and 4 stroke engines- draw power and draw card and explain
3)Overhaul of main bearing- was after liaising with bridge,permits, isolation, tool box talk, all checks, and procedure
4)Faults with bearing and causes and what the faults look like
5)Purpose of tie bolts- problems if too tight or too loose and how to check
6)Type of boiler I sailed with and tests and why I check these
7)Cause of high chlorides in boiler, why test for hydrazine what does it indicate
Inspection of boiler- furnace and spaces, faults and tests with class
8)leaking tube on boiler – repair and how to check
9)Uptake fire on economizer and actions to be taken – general chat on why water shouldn’t be used (hydrogen fire etc)
10) FM200 what it is and how it works and general maintenance
11) ISM points and what they actually mean
12) How Ism effects me as 2nd – went into SMS system and ability to change maintenance periods with office if breakdowns happen to early
13)Ships security- ISPS- how it operates at all levels (ie scanning of stores , admittance of personnel, secure areas)
14) Asked for ship security officers name, plan where it is kept (said in safe in captain’s cabin)
15) Bit on Passenger ship safety new regulations for life jackets, Muster drills and general chat how we operate on board
16)ORB new regulations and codes
17) Junior phones you and says generator is producing no voltage – cause and actions – no excitation current – said use battery after avr disconnected to jump start excitation
18)Junior calls and breaker wont come off board – cause and actions – contacts welded and about isolation of board and repair
19) Checks on piston rings and how and why take clearances and what will happen if clearances wrong
20) General chat on MAIB report for Queen Mary 2 as I sailed on it – what checks done on harmonic filter and what we now do, chat about hi-fog in HV room and MCA view on it

6/4/2012 Greenock PASS

1 Power cards 2 and 4 stroke
2 Balance power on 4 stroke engine
3 Why
4 Remove cylinder head on 4 stroke
5 Stuck hydraulic nut
6 How would you remove it
7 Remove piston and liner
8 ISM purpose.
9 Explain Permit to Work
10 Welfare of engine room staff
11 Injection gear.
12 Nox and Sox legislation
13 Nox spare parts
14 IAPP
15 2 stroke fuel system
16 Bunkering
17 LO tests
18 LO analysis
19 Trend analysis
20 Vibration analysis
21 Log and trends. Why
22 Uptake fire in economizer
23 Boiler survey
24 Why blowdown a boiler
25 HV Procedure

Class 2 Orals – Greenock 24-April-2012 Pass

1. Explain how will you take the performance on the engine?
2. Explain Power Card?
3. Explain Draw Card & all defective once?
4. All units of your engine have early injection, actions?
5. One of the unit has early injection, actions?
6. You are overhauling an injector, what is the main thing you check?
7. If the IMO number is not been printed will you use it?
8. What will you refer the IMO number with?
9. Why should we have the Technical code?( told him all about NOx)
10. How will you keep NOx under control?
11. What are the other methods for reducing NOx emission?
12. What are the different methods of testing NOx emission?
13. Explain the IGG system? (from IGG to Mast riser)
14. Defects or problems with IGG. (specially wanted to know about the cone)
15. Explain the PMS system on your ship?
16. Why should we have the PMS?
17. How does ISM affect you as 2nd engineer?
18. How will you encourage your crew to follow the SMS?
19. How often is the machineries surveyed & validity of the certificate?
20. Who surveys the fuel pump & how often?
21. Ship is in the docks, what are the important things you will have to do as a second engineer, before the water is been drained from the docks.
22. Carry out a hull survey?
23. What checks do you do on the stern tube?
24. Describe the seal arrangement?
25. What are the potential dangers for the crew & the ship in dry dock?
26. How often are the CO2 fire extinguishers surveyed?
27. Your CO2 fire extinguishers is been surveyed, what will you do to extinguish, if there is a fire at the same time.

22/5/12 Gourock Class 2 Pass

Types of vessels sailed on
Engine power assessment methods
Timing diagram, power card and draw card
Getting plant ready for starting after a long layup period
If the engine performance is ok but vessel speed was not, what could be the problems, i.e. fouling of hull and damaged propellers?
Precautions taken if divers are used to clean hull and inspect propellers
What information does dry dock require before arrival at the dock
What services vessel requires when on the blocks
Dangers present during dry-dock, was looking for fires as lots of hot work going on and fixed co2 disconnected also hoses running through compartments so that fire doors can’t be closed.
Asked to take him through a hull survey
Other surveys done in dry docks and intervals of surveys
Went through a two and half year boiler survey
Main engine survey items
Pulling tail shaft for survey
Other methods of sealing stern tube was looking for air instead of oil
Switchboard survey looking for thermo graphic and breaker health care
Switchboard arrangement looked for a mimic board drawing
Asked about harmonic filters on HV installations
Types of motors and starting methods for thrusters
Actions to be taken if there is a sudden bang, engine stops and vessel heels over when in passage through the Suez Canal, i.e. hit a sand bar
Changing over from heavy FO to gas oil
What regulations does the second have to deal with on a daily basis
Certificates carried on board and if I had actually seen them
Marpol annexes 1through 6 particularly 1,4,6
Sulphur emission control areas current and up coming
Types of condition monitoring was looking for oil analysis, daily log, megger testing , vibration analysis etc

Greenock 3rd April 2012 15.15 1hr 35mins PASS

*start by writing down all the certificates required by law on all international going ships.

* starting from the top of the list explain each certificate.

*on each certificate he wanted to know why they were on board, what equipment they each covered (as well as each document), how it can be proved the ship was complying to them (he said a certificate is only a piece of paper)

* IOPP, IAPP, ISPS, LOADLINE

* What is ISPS, what do they check when they come onboard (what about on the bridge)

* What are the hours of rest, how can you prove that your crew is complying

* Loadline survey what do you as second engineer need to check before the survey, what about the documents?

* Stability – what is it, draw. what happens when double bottom gets hole in it? what happens to G? does B move?

* OK hole in double bottom needs dry dock, what does the dock need to know? docking plans, work scope, supplies required and shore connection

* what do u ask for the shore connection? was looking for 3-phase AC 440V 60 Hz and the required load

* Drydock says they can give you 380V 50Hz and 200kW less than you requested do you accept? He was looking for Yes but with the realisation that it will endanger the ship to the heightened possibility of fire due to overheating motors and failed insulations

* Write down power equation for 3-phase AC

* Draw differences in AC and DC waveform

* What happens to resistance when insulation is heated

* How is frequency controlled – said generator speed – he asked for another method – i said frequency converter

* How does a frequency converter function?

* Back to docking – what do you check on the hull

* What do you mean check the propeller – i said for cavitation

*what is cavitation? where would you find this?

* Rudder check, what are you looking at

* You’ve opened the drain and there is water how o you find the leak – I said by water test when rudder is removed

* is there a safer way to do it? – i said applying air and using soapy liquid to check for leaks – he was looking for this

* what pressure?

* Pick an engine type (4-stroke or 2-stroke) to test power in a cylinder – i said 2-stroke

* how do you check cylinder performance

*sketch power card and explain significant points

* sketch draw card and explain

* what happens when you have late injection

* what happens when you have low peak pressure and low exhaust temperatures

* What is the formula for indicated power

* What is the formula for effective power (i had mentioned effective power)

* Wanted to know all certificates validation periods and how they are linked throughout the company from the source to the application onboard

* What type of repair would you do in the dry dock to the hole in the double bottom – i said have it cut out and replated

* Would you not accept a doubler? – said no because the frames may be damaged and that would apply extra stress on the hull – he wanted to hear this

Greenock Class 2 Motor – 45 Minutes – PASS
Type of last vessel and detailed particulars of ME generator boiler
1. Chapters of ISM code
2. Describe what chapters affect your day to day job and why
3. List all certificates carried onboard
4. General details on renewal and expiry
5. If a certificate is due to expire is there any lee way after the date ( only on flag approval but until only to next port )
6. Drydock preperations as 2E in three months or so previous ( checking old specs, check for jobs )
7. Procedure for getting dry dock work done ( Submit drydock specs to company )
8. What condition does the vessel arrive into the dock ( even keel /slight trim )
9. What part of vessel comes onto blocks first and why ( stern keel )
10. How do you manage contractors and jobs during drydock ( Use junior engineers, delegate jobs)
11. What is the most important and first service to connect when entered dock (firemain)
12. As 2E what are you concerned with during refloating
13. When water level is at sea-chest level what would you do before continuing with flooding
14. How is cylinder lubrication achieved on electronic engines ME series
15. How do you cut the fuel to a unit on electronic engines ME series
16. Conditions and procedure to taking engine performance and why
17. Explain how the LNG reliq process is achieved
18. Draw a LNG tank cross section and describe construction and materials
19. Describe safety devices on Tanks
20. What condition are tanks maintained in after discharge
21. Describe companys SMS and why you have it
22. Full enclosed space entry procedure from start to finish
23. Atmosphere tests and limits before permit issued
24. After extensive drydock overhaul the alternator voltage is low but frequency is normal , what is cause and explain how to rectify
25. Describe AVR and what it does
26. How is signal produced by AVR

Question asked in orals Date: 20.08.2012 Greenock Result: pass

1. Performance of Main Engine and engine balancing.
2. Fuel pump Timing adjustment methods.
3. Overhaul of fuel injectors and tests.
4. Stern tube seals type, materials, its bearing.
5. Lube Oil tests and what its shows in the analysis, especially for stern tube.
6. Cylinder Lube oil timing and explain the operation.
7. As a 2nd Engineer how you maintain PMS onboard.
8. As a 2ND engineer how you maintain manned watch in you ship only with only 3 engineers onboard.
9. High voltage system and precautions to be taken before working.
10. Dry dock surveys and what is the most dangerous risk to your crew in dry dock.

2ND ENGINEER Oral Greenock (35 MINUTES) PASS SEPTEMBER 2012

1. TYPE OF VESSELS YOU HAVE SAILED ON?
2. ENGINEROOM HANDOVER ROUTINE?
3. TYPES OF CERTIFICATION ONBOARD?
4. WHAT IS ISM, AND EXPLAIN HOW IT AFFECTS YOU?
5. BOILERS, HOW IS IT PREPARED FOR SURVEY?
6. WHAT IS CHECKED, EXPLAIN THE INSPECTION PROCESS?
7. ONCE IT HAS BEEN INSPECTED AND THE MOUNTINGS ALL PUT BACK ON AND IT IS READY TO RUN UP, EXPLAIN HOW IT IS PUT BACK INTO SERVICE AND THE CHECKS THAT MUST NOW BE COMLPETED (MANUAL CONTROL, ALARMS TESTED, SAFETY VALVE SETTING, HOLDING DOWN ARRANGEMENTS WITH REGARD TO EXPANSION)?
8. WHAT CONTINOUS SURVEY DO YOU COMPLETE ONBOARD? (LOGBOOK, JACKET WATER TEST DONE AND WHAT THEY SHOW, BOILER WATER TESTS)
9. TYPES OF ENGINES ON YOUR SHIP AND HOW THE PERFORMANCE IS ASSESSED? (POWERCARDS, PEAK PRESSURES, ETC. WHAT ARE THEY COMPARED WITH)
10. WHAT IS TAKEN 3 MONTHLY? (L.O SAMPLES)
11. WHAT RESULTS WOULD GIVE AN INDICATION OF PROBLEMS?
12. IF THERE WAS BEARING WEAR WHAT WOULD THAT SHOW AS ON THE L.O RESULTS?
13. WHAT ONBOARD TESTS ARE COMPLETED ONBOARD FOR THE ENGINE L.O?
14. TYPE OF FUEL USED ONBOARD AND THE TESTING COMPLETED?
15. EXPLAIN THE PROCEDURE FOR CHANGING FROM HFO WITH A SULPHUR CONTENT OF 3.O% TO FUEL WITH THE REQUIRED SULPHUR CONTENT PRIOR TO ENTERING SECA REGION?
16. WHAT ARE THE DANGERS WITH REGARD TO THE CHANGE OVER?
17. DRY DOCKING, AS 2ND ENGINEER WHAT ARE THE DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING IN DRY DOCK? (WENT WITH FIREFIGHTING DUE TO CO2 BEING ISOLATED, RELYING ON DOCK FOR FIRE MAIN PRESSURE AND ELECTRICAL POWER, FIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS BEING ISOLATE FOR HOT WORK HOW IS THIS DEALT WITH, FIREWATCHES.)
18. WITH REGARD SPECFICALLY TO ENGINEROOM HOW IS DRY DOCK HAZARDOUS? (FIRE CAN SPREAD QUICKLY DUE TO FIREDOORS BEING OPEN AND HOSES AND CABLES PASSING THROUGH THEM, INCREASE DANGER OF SLIPS TRIPS AND FALLS, FLOOR PLATES BEING LIFTED, CONTRACTORS, SIMILTANOUES JOBS IN CLOSE PROXIMTY, TANK ENTRY PROCEDURES)

Think that’s most of what was asked, went by so quick.

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