[esailor Team]

Exam: Masters Unlimited
Examiner: Capt. Allan McHugh
Ship: LNG/LPG Tankers
Date: 22.02.2022 /14:30Hrs
Place: Online
Outcome: Pass
1. Buoys:
1. Preferred channel to port going to the secondary channel, inbound
2. East cardinal mark: tell me everything about the buoy
3. North Cardinal Mark: everything about the buoy
4. Special mark everything about the buoy
5. Uses of special mark
2. RoR:
Started with lights and asked me to tell him about the ship type, size, day shape, fog signal, and my action.
2.1 Vessel aground
2.2 Fishing vessel.
2.3 Dredger
2.4 NUC

B. CBD

PDV
C. CBD 4 Miles off, and 2nd mate calls at midnight that CBD is not keeping clear of you? Action
D. You are now the master of the CBD, what would be your action?

i.
FV

PDV
E. What would you as a master be worried about?
F. How will interaction and bank effect affect your vessel?

PDV

• You are on the PDV, what action will you take?
• Can a fishing vessel engage in fishing in a traffic lane?
• Where in the rules is it stated that fishing vessels cannot fish in the traffic lane?
• If you are the fishing vessel, what would be your action?
• What rules apply in restricted visibility while following a TSS
N/B There were different other scenarios that I cannot remember under exams condition. However, the few ones were the significant ones that I can remember.
3.0 Puts me on a container ship, vessel in port.
1. You are joining as a new master, what information would you exchange with the outgoing master?
2. What certificates will you be checking?
3. Polish 2/E joins, how will you sign him on?
4. What documents would you be checking?
5. What is the validity of CRA?
6. Your CSR is 9 and you discover number 4 is missing, what will you do?
7. On familiarization tour, you discovered lifer-aft has not been serviced for on inspection due date. What will you do?
8. The company is on holiday?
9. DPA calls and informs that charterers are worried that you may miss ETA at discharge port if you don’t sail out now, what will you do?
10. Where is this stated?
11. Now you have a dispensation from flag to sail from Southampton to California in September, what would you expect from your second mate’s passage plan?
12. While enroute, the chief mate calls at 5 am that the barometer is dropping fast, what would you do as a master?
13. What are the signs of TRS?
14. How will you know if you are in a dangerous semi-circle?
15. You are now on the container ship at sea, the Chief mates call you to the bridge that he is having a list of over 10 degrees, what would be your advice to him and what would you do?
16. Chief mate reports that he can’t correct the list by ballast alone, and the vessel is listing further, what actions would you take?
17. What legal procedures would you follow to protect yourself and the shipowners?
18. Now, you receive a distress alert from a vessel 250nm away, with a man overboard, what would be your action?
19. You arrive at the distress position and discover the distressed vessel has run out of fuel in heavy weather, what would you do?
20. On getting close to America, what would you be worried about?
21. Chief Engineer changes fuel pump in the main engine, where would this be recorded?
22. What is the Sulphur limit in the Sulphur emission control area?
23. And other areas?
24. At 4 am, the second mate calls that he receives a fire alert from the purifier room, action?
25. The chief engineer is inexperienced as this is his first trip, what would be your advice to him?
26. How would you know if the fire has gone out from the purifier room after activating the Fixed CO2 system?
27. The chief engineer needs to go into the engine room to check the extent of damage, what would be your advice?
28. What is the time frame before people can go into the space?
29. What can you not do?
30. Chief mate reported that there is a container on the quayside with DG class 7 goods, what would you advise him to do?
31. Your DG DOC says you cannot carry class 7 but the shipper insists that you load the cargo, what would you do as a master?
32. The second mate informs that magnetic compass error has been excessive since the last voyage, what would you do?
33. What could have caused the deviation?
34. You are expecting an MLC inspection at the discharge port, who are you expecting to meet?
35. How would you prepare for this inspection?
36. Talking about SEA, what is it?
37. While checking your Polish second mate’s SEA, you notice that for him to terminate his contract, he must give the company three months’ notice. But for the company to terminate his contract, they would have to give him a month’s notice, what would you do before the inspection arrives on board?
38. How would your second mate know if he is complying with his hours of rest?
39. How often do you carry out accommodation inspections?
40. Where is that recorded on the ship?
41. What other records are being maintained by the master?
42. A new cadet, 17 years of age joins, what would you do?
43. How would you manage his Hours of Rest?
44. You are in the English Channel a few miles from the port, and you receive a distress alert 200nm off on MF/HF, what would be your action?
45. Talking about the most probable position, how would you calculate it and where would you find the information?
46. What sort of preparations would you expect your heads of departments to make while approaching heavy weather?
Just when he wanted to put forward another slide, he checked his time and it was 16:00hrs, he then stopped. He looked at me and said, “you have satisfied the requirements to be a master on any British ship, Congratulations”. At this point, I could feel the weights come off my shoulders.
Thank you everyone at Glasgow Maritime Academy. You are doing a great job.

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