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What is the equipment used in anchoring and mooring called?
1. Rigging 2. Connecting gear 3. Ground tackle 4. Turnbuckles |
3. Ground tackle
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What part of the anchor digs in as it is dragged across the ocean
bottom? 1. Stock 2. Shank 3. Wedge 4. Fluke |
4. Fluke
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What type of anchor is most commonly used aboard naval ships?
1. Stockless 2. Wedge block 3. Mushroom 4. Stock |
1. Stockless
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What naval stockless anchor has the greatest holding power?
1. Commercial 2. Standard 3. Mark 2 4. Mark 4 |
3. Mark 2
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What type of anchor is normally used in groups of three or more, surrounding a central mooring
point? 1. Wedge block 2. Danforth 3. Stock 4. Mushroom |
4. Mushroom
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Navy anchor chains of the
flash-welded type is the standard for new ship constructions. 1. True 2. False |
1. True
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How long is a standard shot of
anchor chain? 1. 15 feet 2. 15 fathoms 3. 15 yards 4. 15 meters |
2. 15 fathoms
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What devices are used to join
standard shots of anchor chain together? 1. Bending shackles 2. Connecting shackles 3. Center shackles 4. Detachable links |
4. Detachable links
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What device is used to attach the anchor to the chain?
1. Chain swivel 2. Bending shackle 3. Detachable link 4. Outboard swivel shot |
2. Bending shackle
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Which of the following is NOT a use of the chain stopper?
1. To hold the anchor taut in the hawsepipe 2. To ride to an anchor 3. To hold the anchor when the anchor is disconnected 4. To secure a shackle permanently to the pad eye |
2. To ride to an anchor
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What devices are used to attach the anchor chain to mooring buoys?
1. Mooring shackles 2. Mooring swivels 3. Chain cable jacks 4. Clear hawse pendants |
1. Mooring shackles
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An anchor chain on deck shows one blue detachable link and six links on either side, with six turns of wire in the end white links. A total of how many fathoms of chain
are out? 1. 45 2. 60 3. 75 4. 90 |
4. 90
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What is the color of the detachable link at 45 fathoms?
1. Blue 2. Green 3. Red 4. White |
1. Blue
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What is the color of the next-to-last shot of an anchor
chain? 1. Blue 2. Red 3. White 4. Yellow |
1. Blue
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As a minimum, how often should
1 1/2-inch anchor chains be laid out on deck and thoroughly examined? 1. Annually 2. Monthly 3. Quarterly 4. Semiannually |
3. Quarterly
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What type windlass has its power source located below deck?
1. Electric drive 2. Electrohydraulic drive 3. Vertical shaft 4. Horizontal shaft |
3. Vertical shaft
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What device(s) permit(s) free rotation of the wildcat when you are paying out the chain?
1. Whelps 2. Locking head 3. Drum 4. Pockets |
2. Locking head
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What term is used to describe the anchor buoy when it is floating on the surface above the anchor?
1. Dipping 2. Listening 3. Looking 4. Watching |
4. Watching
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When weighing anchor, when is the anchor aweigh?
1. When it is free of the bottom 2. When it is in sight 3. When the chain is up and down 4. When it is heaved in just short of breaking out |
1. When it is free of the bottom
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What command should be used to inform the seaman to release the brake so the chain is heaved in enough to take strain off the stopper?
1. HEAVE AROUND AND UP 2. HEAVE AROUND TO SHORT STAY 3. HEAVE AROUND 4. READY TO HEAVE IN |
3. HEAVE AROUND
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Approximately how much of the heaving line is coiled and held in the casting hand?
1. 1/3 2. 1/2 3. 2/3 4. 3/4 |
3. 2/3
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What device is used with davits having wire rope falls?
1. Drum 2. Track 3. Bull 4. GYPSY |
1. Drum
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What type of mechanical boat davit handles the rescue rigid inflatable
boat? 1. The crescent davit 2. The pivot sheath davit 3. The slewing arm davit 4. The gravity link davit |
3. The slewing arm davit
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What davit is mainly used aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious helicopter landing ships?
1. Pivoted 2. Pivoted link 3. Pivoted sheath screw 4. Overhead suspended |
4. Overhead suspended
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When using a gravity boat davit, what winch devices control the boat's descending speed and prevent the davit arms from slamming into the outboard stop?
1. Handcranks 2. Arm configurations 3. Davits 4. Manual brakes |
4. Manual brakes
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What boat davit safety device is used to indicate when the electric motor must be deenergized during
hoisting to prevent overstressing or failure of davit components? 1. Double brake feature 2. Safe hoisting position stripes 3. Emergency disconnect switch 4. Fluid brake |
2. Safe hoisting position stripes
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The purpose of the fluid brake is to regulate the speed of a descending boat.
1. True 2. False |
1. True
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What deck fitting should you use to make fast a line that has been led through a chock?
1. Cleat 2. Bitt 3. Chock 4. Bollard |
2. Bitt
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What deck fitting consists of a double-ended pair of projecting horns used for belaying a wire?
1. Cleat 2. Bitt 3. Chock 4. Pad eye |
1. Cleat
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There are how many types of chock?
1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four |
3. Three
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When a naval vessel has two accommodation ladders, what personnel use the forward ladder?
1. Working parties 2. Liberty parties and yard workers 3. Messmen and hospital corpsmen 4. Officers and ceremonial participants |
4. Officers and ceremonial
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What type of ladder is rigged out and lowered to provide for boarding or leaving an anchored ship?
1. Gangway 2. Platform 3. H-frame 4. Accommodation |
4. Accommodation
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For ease of handling, most
accommodation ladders in the Navy today are made of aluminum. 1. True 2. False |
1. True
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On ships not having outriggers, what davit can be used to support the ladder over the side?
1. An H-frame 2. A single-sheave block 3. A J-bar 4. A pad eye |
3. A J-bar
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What device is used for mooring small boats clear of a ship's side?
1. Accommodation ladder 2. Boat boom 3. Shroud 4. Jacob's ladder |
2. Boat boom
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What devices control the fore and aft motion of the boat boom?
1. Pad eyes 2. Lifelines 3. Toggles 4. Guys |
4. Guys
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A boat boom is secured to the side of a ship by what device(s)?
1. A gooseneck and a pin 2. A roddle and a U-bolt 3. A U-bolt and a clamp 4. A pad eye |
1. A gooseneck and a pin
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What part of the boat boom rigging is designed to permit the boat crews to come aboard ship?
1. Topping lift 2. Guess-warp 3. Jacob's ladder 4. After guys |
3. Jacob's ladder
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What equipment should you heave around on to spot the yard-and-stay booms in their working area?
1. Topping lifts 2. Guys 3. Whips 4. Plumbs |
2. Guys
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What minimum number of steadying lines should be attached to heavy or unwieldy loads?
1. Five 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four |
2. Two
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Replenishment at sea is a broad term applied to all methods of transferring material and personnel
at sea. 1. True 2. False |
1. True
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What craft is needed to carry out a vertical replenishment (VERTREP)?
1. Submarine 2. Fixed-wing aircraft 3. Helicopter 4. Jet aircraft |
3. Helicopter
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Which of the following ships has the primary duty of supplying ammunition to the fleet?
1. AE 2. AO 3. AFS 4. AOE |
1. AE
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What are the most common refueling rigs used in the Navy?
1. Probe and heavy weather 2. Manila highline and Burton housefall 3. Surf and Stream 4. Span-wire and close-in |
4. Span-wire and close-in
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What flaghoist signal should the receiving ship hoist to indicate it is disengaging at final station?
1. ROMEO closed up 2. ROMEO at the dip 3. PREP closed up 4. PREP at the dip |
3. PREP closed up
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