Second Schedule.
Applications
for examina-
tico and
issue of
certificates.
Third
Schedule.
Conduct of
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() has passed an examination in the subjects specified in the Second Schedule to these rules.
The provisions of Chapter II of Table I, in so far as the same are applicable thereto, shall apply to applications for examination for and the issue of certificates of competency as trawling masters, mave that-
(a)
a certificate of competency as a trawling master endorsed with the word Limited shall be in Form I of the Third Schedule (o these rules: and
(b) a certificate of competency as a trawling master without the endorsement of the word Limited shall be in Form II of the Third Schedule to these rules.
5. (1) Subject to the provisions of this rule, the provisions al examination. Chapters V and VI of Table I, in so far as the same are applicable thereto, shall apply to the conduct of examinations for certificates of competency as trawling masters.
Coples of certificates.
Feer.
(2) In order to qualify in any part of the examination the candi- date must obtain not less than 70 per cent of the marks respectively allotted to such Part in the appropriate Schedule to these rules; and in order to qualify in the examination the candidate must qualify b each Part.
6. The issue of certified copies of certificates of competency a trawling masters shall be subject to the provisions of rute 19 of Table I.
7. The provisions of Chapter VII (except rule 87) of Table shall apply to the payment of fees in respect of examinations for certificates of competency as trawling masters in accordance with the following Table—
TABLE.
Fees.
Examination for certificate of competency as-
(e) Trawling Master
(5) Trawling Master (Limited)
HK$20.00 HC115.00
Re-examination in any part of either the written or orat examination. HK1100I (Note: The full appropriate fee is payable it examination is required
in both the written and the oral examinations).
Examination in Signalling, if taken separately under rule 62 of
Table 1
HKS 300
(Note: If the candidate fails in the Sight Tests any of the above fees paid will be refunded less the sum of HK$3.00, on application to the Director of Marine).
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FIRST SCHEDULE,
Syllabus for examination for Certificate of Competency as Trawling Master (Limited).
PART 1. Pilotage (3 hours-Marks 200).
[r. 3.]
Note Only charts of the areas adjacent to Hong Kong will be used in the captination.
A candidate will be required-
(1) to use an Admiralty chart or plan and to answer questions orally on the information to be derived therefrom e.g.. abbreviations, conventional signs, depth of water, nature of sea bed, navigational raarks, booys and lights, "variation, madurement of distance, etc.;
(2) to set a course to steer by compass from a given position to Hong Kong or to any other place of safety or given position, allowing for the set and drift of a given tide or current; the first position may be given or the date given to is it either by given simultaneous cross bearings or by plotting a given course and distance run from a previous given position making duc allowance for a given tide or current;
(3) to find the estimated position of the ship by means of two bearings of the same shore object, making due allowance for a given tide or current during the period of sun on a given course between the first and second bearings; and to find the distance at which the ship will pass a given point:
(4) to be able to take a bearing by compass, and by using a card of deviations, convert it to a magnetic and thence to a true direction to lay off on a chart;
(5) to be able to find the deviation of a compass for a particular direction of the ship's head, by means of transit bearings of two shore objects;
(6) to be able to find by two different fixes of the ship, and the course wered between them at a given speed, the amount of set and drift experienced.
PART II. Practical Navigation (2 hours-Marka 200).
A candidate will be required--
() to show that he is familiar with the Abridged Nautical Almapad as prds the Declination of the Sua;
(2) to ascertain the latitude from a given observation of the sua when on the meridian;
(3) to show that he understands the difference between compass direction, magnetic direction and true direction, and is able to find the error and thence the deviation of the compass by---
(a) bearing of the sun at noon in the winter season, or at rising or selling
of the sun at any season;
(3) approximately by bearing of the Pole Star,
PART II. Oral Examination in Seamanship.
A candidate must understand and give satisfactory answers to questions on the following subjects-
1) The use and adjustments of the sextant and the finding of index error by the horizon;
the use and reading of an accroid barometer, a knowledge of the local uphron signals and the normal tracks of typhoons in the China Seas;
(3) the use and maintenance of a palent log:
(4) the marking and use of lead lines and other sounding apparatus;