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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 21, 1913.
Certificates for Foreign-going Fore and Aft Rigged Vessels.
Certificates.
42. Certificates for the grades of Master. First Mate, Only Fore & Aft Mate, and Second Mate of fore and aft rigged vessels will be issued to Candidates who have not complied with the regulation which requires them to have served at least one year in square-rigged sailing vessels, or who prove in course of examination that they are ignorant of the management of square-rigged ships. In other respects the qualifications for examination for such Certificates are the same as for Ordinary Certificates.
examinations.
43. The examinations for the grades of Second Mate, Only Character of Mate, First Mate, and Master, of fore and aft rigged vessels will be precisely the same as for the Ordinary Certificates, excepting that in seamanship a knowledge of the management of square rigged vessels is not required.
44. A Certificate for fore and aft rigged vessels will not entitle Value of
the possessor to act in any case in which a Certificate for square- Certificates. rigged vessels is required. Amongst square-rigged vessels are classed full-rigged ships, barques, brigs, barquentines, brigantines, and steamships carrying square sails.
45. A Candidate possessing a Certificate for fore and aft rigged Service for vessels, and desiring to be examined for an Ordinary Certificate, Certificate.
Ordinary must prove that he has served at sea at least one year in a square- rigged sailing vessel, unless he has previously held an Ordinary Certificate of a lower grade.
Certificates for Foreign-going Steamships.
Certificates.
46. Certificates applying only to steamships are issued to Steamship Candidates who are either unable to comply with the regulation which requires them to have passed one year in square-rigged sailing vessels or who prove in course of examination that they are ignorant of the management of square-rigged vessels. All the qualifying Officers' service prescribed for these Certificates may have been performed in steamships.
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These Certificates will entitle the holder to go to sea as Masters or Mates of foreign-going steamships but will not entitle them to go to sea as Masters or Mates of foreign-going sailing ships.
There will be no distinction in these Certificates between fore
and aft rigged steamships and square-rigged steamships.
47. SECOND MATE.-The qualifications as to age and service are Second Mate the same as for an Ordinary Second Mate's Certificate (see para. Steamship. 31), excepting that no service in square-rigged sailing vessels is required.
48. EXAMINATION IN NAVIGATION. The examination in naviga- Navigation. tion for a Second Mate's Certificate for foreign-going steamships will be precisely the same as that prescribed for an Ordinary Second Mate's Certificate.
49. EXAMINATION IN SEAMANSHIP.-The Candidate must under- Seamanship. stand and be able to give satisfactory answers on the following subjects:-
(a.) The standing and running rigging of steamships.
(b.) Bending, unbending, setting, taking in and furling
sail.
(c.) Sending masts and yards up and down.
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