Work in Cordage
1 What are the different types of seizing, and
where could they be used?
2 How is a heaving mallet used?
3 How is a Spanish windlass used?
4 What is the relation between the size of a
seizing and the size of the ropes on which it is used?
5 Where would the following be used:- cut splice,
chain splice, Flemish eye, grommet and becket? Demonstrate each answer.
6 How is a rope wormed, parcelled and served?
7 Why is a rope wormed, parcelled and served
and what precautions is necessary with a rope so fitted?
8 Demonstrate the following knots, and give instances
where they would be used:- manrope knot; Turk’s head–standing, running
and on the bight; double Matthew Walker; stopper knot; monkey’s fist; heaving
line knot; sennet knot; double diamond knot.
9 Demonstrate the following, and give instances
of the use of each one:- pointing, grafting, coach whipping, half hitching,
continuous walling, ringbolt hitching.
10 Describe how a cargo net is made?
Hawsers and their Handling
17 What is the difference between a hawser, a
berthing hawser and a hurricane hawser?
19 How would you bend a heaving line to the bollard
eye of a berthing hawser, and a messenger to a hawser eye of a hawser?
20
21 When securing two or more berthing hawsers
to a single bollard, how should the bollard eyes be placed over the bollard,
and what is the reason for this?
22 How are the turns of a wire hawser racked
when belayed to twin bollards?
23
24 What is the difference between a rope stopper,
a chain stopper, a chain check stopper, and a carpenters stopper, and where
would each be used?
Types, Characteristics, and Maintenance of Rope
31 Why is acid harmful to wire hawsers?
What lubricant would you use for a wire hawser?
32 How can the different types of cordage supplied
to the Royal Navy be distinguished?
33 Place cordage made of Italian hem, sisal,
manila, and coir in their order of precedence in regard to their strength,
weight, flexibility and wearing qualities.
34 Place the following types of cordage in their
order of precedence in regard to strength:- cable-laid rope, hawser-laid
rope, shroud-laid rope, bolt-laid rope, stage lashing, and spunyarn.
35 What are junk and rumbo?
36 What is the difference in construction of
signal halyard, log line and lead line?
37 For what purposes are the following small
stuffs used:- twine, mackerel line, marline and nettlestuff?
38 What is the jaw of a rope?
39 What are the main differences between hard
and soft laid ropes?
40 When estimating the fitness of a rope for
any purpose what feature should be examined?
41 Before deciding to turn a boat’s fall end
for end, what special features should be looked for?
42 What are:- Lang’s lay; preformed rope; composite
rope?
43 What are tulips, sockets, swaged ends, and
Bordeaux connections, and where would you expect to find them?
44 How would you distinguish a 3-inch S.W.R.,
a 3-inch F.S.W.R., and a 3-inch E.S.F.S.W.R. from each other?
45 What is the relative flexibility of a 3-inch
6 x 12 F.S.W.R. to a 3-inch 6 x 37 E.S.F.S.W.R. and a ½-inch 6 x
19 E.S.F.S.W.R. to a 2-inch 6 x 12 F.S.W.R. ?
46 What is the “factor of safety”, and what is
its value for hoists, running rigging, slings, and hawsers?
47 What is the general relationship between the
diameter of a sheeve and the lift of the wire rope working around it?
48 If a lift rope showed signs of undue wear,
what would be the probable cause?
49 If a 4-inch F.S.W.R. is lead round a shackle
bolt of 2-inch diameter, what stress would you expect the rope to withstand?
Does the strength of the rope decrease the further it is bent around the
bolt?
50 In what way would a wire rope show signs of
strain? When estimating the fitness of a wire rope for any purpose,
what features should be examined?
51 How often should wire ropes of hoists be examined?
What is the signification of a broken wire in the rope of a hoist?
52 What effect, if any, does extreme cold have
on wire rope?
Chapter VI
Miscellaneous Rigging
1 What is a “rigging warrant”. What is its purpose,
and what items are included in it? Where are details of a ship’s
hawsers and awnings to be found?
2 Describe how dressing lines are rove in your
ship.
3 Describe how guardrails are fitted and rove.
4 Describe how shrouds are rattled don.
What is the use of a sheerpole?
5 Describe how you would send down a slung yard.
6 Describe how you would cross a yard to a mast.
7 Describe how you would strike a fidded topmast.
8 How would you unship the lower boom of your
ship and stow it inboard?
9 How is a telescopic mast housed?
10 What different types of ladder are provided
in H.M. ships? Describe with the aid of a sketch, a warship’s accomodation
ladder and its rigging. What are the tide spars and how are they
rigged? What is the guest warp?
11 State what you know about the principles of
fendering. Describe the various fenders in common use at sea, and
give examples of where each may be used.
12 Demonstrate how you would rig and sling a
stage for painting the ship’s side, and a bosun’s chair on a gantline.
How would you rig stages for painting a cruiser’s funnel?
13 Demonstrate how you would fish a destroyer’s
lower boom which has been broken in its middle.
