THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH OCTOBER, 1905.
(b.) Service in Foreign-going yachts will be accepted in full; and service performed within home trade limits in sailing yachts of not less than 50 tons net register or in steam yachts of not less than 80 tons gross register will be accepted in the proportion stated in para. 63; but Candidates must also show: (i) For a Foreign-going Certificate, service for at least 18 months in an ordinary trading vessel in the foreign trade, or for the equiva- lent period, 27 months, in an ordinary trading vessel in the home or coasting trade; (ii) For a Home Trade Passenger Ship Certificate, service for at least 12 months in an ordinary trading vessel in the foreign, home, or coasting trade.
(c.) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of 40 tons gross register, will be accepted towards qualifying a Candidate for a Foreign-going Certificate as equivalent to half the same time served in the foreign trade, but no amount of such service shall count as more than two years' service in the foreign trade, and no such service shall count as Officer's service to qualify Candidates for Foreign-going Certificates.
(d.) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of not less than 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of not less than 40 tons gross register, will be accepted at the ordinary rate as qualifying service for home trade passenger ship Certificates, but Candidates must prove that they have in addition served for at least 12 months in an ordinary trading vessel in the foreign, home, or coasting trade.
(e.) Service within home trade limits in sailing yachts of less than 20 tons net register, or in steam yachts of less than 40 tons gross register, will not be accepted as qualifying service for any class of Certificate.
80. Service in lightships or in an engine room will not be accepted Service in
as sea service.
lightships or Engine
room.
Ibid. Sec. 119.
81. Service performed on rivers, no matter of what size, and service Service on performed within smooth or partially smooth water limits will not be accepted.
Where any doubt whatever exists on this point, the Candidate will be required to produce a certificate from the Master or Owner of the vessel in which the service was performed, before the service can be accepted.
Rivers. Ibid. Sec. 120.
82. Half the time served on board a training ship will be allowed to Service in count as service at sea up to a limit of one year, (ie., no length of ser- training vice will be allowed to count as more than one year at sea), provided Tid. Soc.
ships. that the Candidate can produce a certificate from the Committee that 121. he has conducted himself creditably, and passed a good examination in seamanship, so far as it is practised in the training ship, as well as in other matters down to the time of his leaving the ship, but this service will not be regarded as equivalent to service in square-rigged vessels.
Ibid. Sec.
83. The whole of the time claimed under indentures of apprentice- Apprentices. ship will be accepted as actual sea service to qualify under para. 27 for 122. a Second Mate's Certificate, provided (4) that the indentures have not been cancelled through some fault of the Candidate, but are endorsed by the Owner or Master to whom he was bound to the effect that he has performed his service faithfully during the time he remained as appren- tice; and (b) that the Candidate has served at sea four-fifths of the time claimed, that is to say, has not spent more than one-fifth of the time in home ports.
In cases where an apprentice is qualified for examination before the expiration of his indentures, e.g., where he has had training ship or other sea service prior to being bound, which, together with his actual time as apprentice, makes up the required four years, or where his indentures are for a period of more than four years, a letter from the Owner or Master will be accepted instead of the endorsement referred to above.
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