+33. What kind of releasing gear is used?+
+34. Are the gripes easily cast off? Are the falls clear? Are they in tubs, as required by law?+
+35. What are your duties in case of fire? In case of fire in the holds, to cargo. Find out about this.+
+36. If the wharf caught fire, and everyone was ashore, that is, all the officers, but yourself. What would you do? Think over it.+
+37. Where do the seamen live, the firemen, the stewards? Where is the "glory hole"?+
+38. What are the duties of the boatswain?+
+39. What are the duties of the carpenter?+
+40. What are the duties of the quartermasters?+
+41. Learn the details of the complete economy of the vessels. How the crew and passengers are fed, where they mess, where stores are kept?+
+42. Learn the routine in your department. Why are things done as they are?+
+43. What is the ship's draft? How is it recorded?+
+44. Where are the sounding pipes? Look up the framed sectional blue print of the vessel that ought to be framed in the chart room.+
+46. What is the displacement of the vessel?+
+Length between perpendiculars.+ +Length over all.+ +Depth of hold.+ +Moulded depth.+ +Beam.+ +Freeboard, allowed by underwriters (draft).+ +Gross tonnage.+ +Net tonnage.+ +Horse-power.+ +Speed.+ +Coal consumption.+ +Her most economical speed, and tons per day.+ +Her hold capacity. Holds and 'tween decks.+ +Her tank capacity.+ +Her bunker capacity.+ +Her engines. I.H.P. type.+ +Her boilers, number, type.+ +Her wireless. Range.+
+48. What is the vessel's signal number?+
+51. When built? By whom? Kind of construction?+
+52. Look up old log books if available. Speed under different kinds of weather conditions.+
+54. What kind of propellers, or propeller? Material? Pitch? Right handed or left? How will it send the vessel's head—going ahead—backing?+
+55. Learn everything you can about her construction, and equipment.+
+56. What is her draft when light—holds empty? What is her stability when in this condition? Is her propeller out of water in that condition? How much? What is her light displacement? How can you determine her stability—by means of shifting weights on deck?+
+57. How many cubic feet to a ton of bunker coal?+
+58. How many pounds to a cubic foot of sea water? Fresh water?+