[esailor Team]

Examiner: Steve Meakings
Chief Mate Unlimited/ Master <3000gt
May 2022 – Previous Experience: Passenger Vessels.

• What would you want to know from the outgoing chief mate?
• You are going into dry dock what will you specifically prepare for an overhaul of the windlass?
• What are the requirements of the BNWAS?
• Voyage plan considerations from Southampton to Norway with regards to crew protection?
• Tell me more about the check you would do for the lifeboats (water rations, Bilges, Heating system for fuel, Ensure embarkation is clear of ice?)
• What certification do you have for the lifeboat davits?
• Tell me more about the MGN & procedure for the 5 yearly lifeboat test
• How would you do the dynamic test of the winch break?
• Who would be in attendance to this test?
• What if flag state isn’t available?
• What is an approved organisation?
• List the 6 approved RO’s
• You have a tug made fast to the centre lead forward acting as a break what are your considerations as master?
• What is a short round turn?
• What is the pivot point and what happens as the vessel moves ahead slightly?
• How does it move forward and how much?
• What is bank effect?
• You are coming alongside and the chief engineer tells you that you don’t have the generators and have only 6 movements left what does this mean and what would you do?
• What equipment is limited by the loss of the generator?
• What else can you tell me about the power distribution for ships energy requirements specifically about generators?
• What are the requirements for the emergency generator?
• What are the technical requirements for the operation?
• You have an AB come forward for anchoring operation in flip flops actions?
• Same AB is late for bridge watch duties actions?
• Explain more about disciplinary procedures?
• What levels can different people give disciplinaries?
• Draw loadlines
• What is the additional line on a pax vessel and what does it mean? (Subdivision LL – P1)
• What does 1/48 mean
• AB Comes to you saying bars have fallen out the compass, actions?
• How would you know where the bars go?
• You have a fire in the galley and the deep fat fryer is on fire how would you brief the fire team?
• Do you really need the master to grant you permission to send in the fire squad are you not the OSC?
• What else do you need the permission of the master for?
• How would you ensure the area was air tight?
• The captain wakes you up and tells you are proceeding to a ditched aircraft what are you going to do?
• You got them onboard and you need to heli evac one, what specific equipment do you need on a UK FLAG Vessel?
• What else would you need to prepare?
• Who needs crisis management on a passenger vessel?
• You have a crew member without crisis management certificate actions?
• What is an observation, non conformity & major non conformity?
• What is the exact definition as per ISM?
• What is the validity of the ISM Certificate?
• When is an intermediate survey due?
• What are you required to report to the MAIB?
• What is on the list that can be found on the MAIB Website?

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