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USCG Deck General (Set 132)
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Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. The easiest way to make a landing is __________.
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30 MCQs #1 Your vessel is a single-screw ship with a right-hand propeller. There is no current. The easiest way to make a landing is __________. #2 You are landing a single-screw vessel with a left-handed propeller, starboard side to the dock. As you approach the dock you back your engine with your rudder amidships. You would expect the vessel to __________. #3 It is easier to dock a right-hand, single-screw vessel __________. #4 Which of the following is an inherent advantage possessed by a twin-screw vessel in opposition to a single-screw vessel? #5 You are backing on twin engines with rudders amidships, when your port engine stalls. To continue backing on course, you should __________. #6 A twin-screw vessel is easier to maneuver than a single-screw vessel because the twin-screw vessel __________. #7 You are backing on twin engines with rudders amidships. Your starboard engine stalls. To continue backing on course, you should __________. #8 Your twin-screw vessel is moving ASTERN with rudders amidships. The starboard screw suddenly stops turning. Your vessel's head will __________. #9 A vessel is equipped with twin propellers, both turning outboard with the engines half ahead. If there is no wind or current and the rudders are amidships, what will happen? #10 You are going ahead on twin engines with rudder amidships. Your starboard engine stalls. To continue on course, you should __________. #11 You are going ahead on twin engines with rudders amidships. Your port engine stalls. To continue your course you should __________. #12 You are operating a twin-screw vessel and lose your port engine. You continue to operate on your starboard engine only. Which action would you take to move your vessel ahead in a straight line? #13 With rudders amidships and negligible wind, a twin-screw vessel moving astern with both engines backing will back __________. #14 A twin screw vessel, making headway with both engines turning ahead, will turn more readily to starboard if you __________. #15 On a twin-screw, twin-rudder vessel, the most effective way to turn in your own water, with no way on, is to put __________. #16 Your vessel is backing on the starboard screw, and going ahead on the port screw. The bow will __________. #17 You may BEST turn a twin-screw vessel about, to the right, in a narrow channel by using __________. #18 A twin-screw ship going ahead on the starboard screw only tends to move __________. #19 The rudders are amidships and both screws are going ahead. What will happen if the starboard screw is stopped? #20 With rudders amidships and negligible wind, a twin-screw vessel moving ahead on the port screw and backing on the starboard screw will __________. #21 A twin-screw vessel can clear the inboard propeller and maneuver off a pier best by holding a(n) __________. #22 You are conning a twin-screw vessel going ahead with rudders amidships. If the port screw stops turning the bow will __________. #23 You are stopped with no way upon your vessel at the pilot station. Your vessel is a large twin-screw ship. You must come around 180° to board your Pilot. How should you use the engines and rudder to turn the ship fastest in the least amount of space? #24 In twin-screw engine installations while going ahead, maneuvering qualities are most effective when the tops of the propeller blades both turn __________. #25 The BEST way to steer a twin-screw vessel if you lose your rudder is by using __________. #26 A continuous watertight bulkhead on a MODU is normally also a(n) __________. #27 While the DEEP DRILLER is loaded as shown in Sample Form #4 (Drilling), casing is accidentally dropped on the starboard side. Because the sounding level and starboard aft inclination are slowly increasing, you decide that tank 10S has minor damage. Among the possible corrective actions is __________. #28 Because of the presence of 75 knot winds, the DEEP DRILLER is at survival draft. KGT is 3.24 feet less than the maximum allowed. What is the value of GMT? #29 The DEEP DRILLER, at a draft of 60 feet, has 3,765 ft-tons of transverse moments. How much ballast should be transferred between tanks 1P and 1S to level the unit in list? #30 An inclined semisubmersible with a very short rolling period about a constant angle of list is likely to have __________.
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