1st Division deals with the …
Foc’sle, Life Rafts, Life Rings and mooring lines 1-4
Life Rafts (4)
- 128 life rafts
- 50 people for 7 days
- Mk 8 life rafts
- Sea Painter is 100ft long
Abandon Ship
- Only the “CO” can order an abandon ship
- 1MC announcements
- Land bears XXX, Miles away from land, Friend/Enemy
- Water Temperature, Water Depth
- Entry of the crew into the water will be away from the direction of the wind (windward side) to avoid flames and the ship being blown is the windland current into personnel in the water.
- One RHIB will be in the water as a ready life boat and to tow the rafts out of the direction of the sinking ship.
- There are enough life boats for 110% of the crew
- 2 types of releases: Manual (100 sea painter) or Automatic (40ft then opens)
ANCHORS
o Anchors are 60,000 lbs each or 30 tons
o Mark II navy stockless
o Chain link weighs 365 lbs
o Anchor and chain are from the USS Ranger CV-61
o There are 12 shots on each chain
o Chain is 1080 ft long
o Each shot is 90 ft or 15 fathoms
o Each fathom is 6 ft
o There are 3 ways to count the shots of a chain:
• Color code is Red-White-Blue
• Number of white links fwd or aft of the detachable link
• Number of wire wraps on the most outboard and inboard white link
o Most forward closed chalk is the bull nose.
o Second to last shot is yellow also known as the “WARNING SHOT”
o Last shot is red also known as the “DANGER SHOT”
2nd Division
Deals with Unrep equipment, the sail loft (canvas and bunting shop), The Ceremonial Quarterdeck and mooring lines 5-8.
The ceremonial Quarterdeck consists of:
•50 state flags •POW flag, Ensign and the navy flag •Old navigational equipment •RR Head •Pic. Boards: President, Staff, Squadron, DH and Dept. LCPO’s •RR Bell •RR Statue Bonus: Standing on the Pres. Seal/40th President
The stage
•Bunting around the stage ( Red, White and Blue)
•Bullets
•Podium
•Red carpet
Bonus: Bell used for “The Watch” poem during a retirement ceremony.
There are 8 unrep stations:
o 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15
o 1,7 and 9 are double probe receiving stations
o 3,5, 11 and 13 are sliding padeyes
o 15 is a single probe sending station
o Station 1 is located in the khaki smoke pit
o Station 7 is located: from HB2 outboard into the weapons handling area, hang a left, G3 office and its ballistic doors to the right.
o Station 9 is located in the officer’s quarterdeck
o Stations 3 and 5 are located in the overhead of HB2.
o Stations 11 and 13 are located on the overhead of HB3.
P&D Line
Is on the flight deck fwd of the island.
•P&D (phone and distance line) is a bridge to bridge communication between ships.
•You will have a flag starting at 0 and stopping at 300 every 20ft.
•Colors go Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, White and back to Green again to continue the color sequence.
3 types of replenishments
- CONREP- Taking on stores, mail, personnel and ammo
- UNREP- Taking on fuel
- VERTREP- Helicopters on the flight deck
On the unrep station
- Safety-White
- Rig Captain-Yellow
- Riggers/Line Handlers-Blue
- Signalman/Phone-Talkers-Green
- Winch Operator and Checkers- Brown
- Fuels-Purple
- Gunners Mates-Red
- Supply-Orange
- All other personnel-Grey
Max speed for replenishment
13 KTS
Lateral separation
140-160ft. Max is 180ft.
3rd Division
In charge of the fantail, the stern dock, the B&A crane and the both boat decks and mooring lines 9-12.
The B&A Crane
Stands for Boat and Aircraft Crane. The purpose of the Boat and Aircraft Crane is to on load/off load small boats and aircraft. The main hook’s SWL is 50,000 LBS. The AUX hook’s SWL is 6,750 LBS
Ships key and the stern dock:
The significance of the fantail is the ships key and the stern dock. The ship’s key is used for taking off the ship’s screws. The stern dock is used for liberty launches when we anchor out.
How big are the props:
22’ in diameter, 5 blade, solid brass
RHIB stands for
Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat
2 boats
Port and Stbd
The davit crew consists of:
- White-Safety
- Yellow-Davit Captain ( In charge of the evolution)
- Brown-Davit Operator/Winch Checker (operates the davit and winch checker will watch the wire drum for bird cage.
- Blue-Line Handlers (Handles the steadying lines as the boat goes down as well as up)
- Green-Phone Talker (Com’s with the bridge)
The boat crew consists of 4 personnel and the colors are
- White-Boat Officer (Wears a 9mm pistol for shark watch)
- Yellow-Coxswain (Overall in charge of the boat and the crew)
- Brown- Boat engineer
- Blue-SAR Swimmer ( Goes and gets the person in the water)
Man rope (monkey lines) are:
Used when the boat crew is going down or coming back up.
•Every 18 inches there is a figure 8 knot used for holding onto
•There are 6 lines but 4 are used. The extra 2 are used for the persons in the water.
•The boat crew will put 50% of there weight on these lines at all times while the boat is being lifted and lowered.
•The boat is lowered down by a vest davit-its compact size and ease of operation
The order in which the come off or lowering of the boat in the water are:
- The Raymond Quick release hook
- Aft steadying line
- Fwd steadying line
- Sea Painter
Sea Painter
- This line is 100ft long
- It is attached to a three horned cleat in fuel station 7
- A small line is attached to the sea painter for the sole purpose of rising and lowering the sea painter called a lizard line.
- It is not a load bearing line. No weight is supported by this line.
- The Sequence is reversed when the boat is getting lifted back onboard.
