3. Complete the responses to each order (1-4).
1) Order: “Stand by your station”
Response:
2) Order: “stand by for letting go”
Response:
3) Order: “Heave up the anchor”
Response:
4) Order: “Cast off all lines”
Response:
STANDING BY STATION
STANDING BY FOR LETTING GO
HEAVING UP ANCHORS
CASTING OFF ALL LINES
4. You hear orders from the bridge and responses from a bosun at
the stern. Listen once. Tick the thing that is happening
• Ship is making fast to a tug
• Anchor is being heaved up
• Ship is casting off moorings
• Equipment is being checked
5. Listen again and complete the gaps using a word or phrase
from what you heard
1) The stern moorings station is ready to _______________
2) The bridge orders stern to stand by and the response is:
_____________________________________________
3) Stern mooring station singles up to one
___________________ and one ____________________
4) After letting go, stern tells the bridge:
______________________
GET UNDERWAY
STERN STANDING BY
BREAST LINE AFT SPRING
ALL GONE AND CLEAR, SIR
6. PROTOCOLS
1) How does the bridge start the exchange?
2) How does the bridge end the exchange?
3) How does the bridge ask for information?
4) How does the stern say “I confirm”?
HISPANIOLA STERN, THIS IS THE BRIDGE
THAT IS ALL
REPORT
UNDERSTOOD
7. Look at the questions and answers 1-4. The words in the
questions are mixed up. Write the questions correctly.
1) Question: under way are ready you get to?
Question ___________________
2) Question: crew by are standing?
Question ___________________
3) Question: an she on is even keel?
Question ___________________
4) Question: secured covers closed are hatch and?
Question ___________________
ARE YOU READY TO GET UNDERWAY?
ARE CREW STANDING BY?
IS SHE ON AN EVEN KEEL?
ARE HATCH COVERS CLOSED AND SECURED?
8. Complete the answers to questions 1-4 and practice
the exchanges with your partner.
1) Question: Are all the lines made fast?
Response: Yes, ___________________
2) Question: Is cargo lashed and secured?
Response: Yes, ___________________
3) Question: Are you ready to get underway?
Response: No, ___________________
4) Question: Is the propeller clear?
Response: Yes, ___________________
ALL THE LINES ARE MADE FAST
CARGO IS LASHED AND SECURED
WE ARE NOT READY TO GET UNDERWAY, YET
THE PROPELLER IS CLEAR
9. A: What is your next port of call?
B: My next port of call is Gibraltar?
A: Are you a container vessel?
B: That is correct!
A: Have you let go?
B: Yes, I have let go
10. • Your order: cast off all lines
• Your partner responds: Casting off all lines
• Next, you ask: Are all lines cast off?
• Your partner answers: yes, all lines are cast off
1) Cast off all spring lines!
2) Make ready to get underway!
3) Make fast the derricks fore and aft!
4) Check the cargo in number 3 hold!
5) Rig the cargo for sea!
6) Heave up both anchors!
7) Heave in headline!
8) Let go everything forward!
11. Discuss what is wrong with the ship in the
photograph. How can the problem be solved?
12. PERSONAL PROJECT
Make a list of the things that need checking
before a ship is seaworthy and can get underway.
1) Check the trim
2) Check equipment
3) Check hatches
4) Check holds
5) Check engines
6) Check fluid levels
7) Muster roll crew
13. 1) Before a ship gets underway the crew test equipment and check if the ship is seaworthy.
They secure the derricks and batten down hatches. Then, the master trims the vessel to an
even keel by moving cargo from one hold to another and fuel from one tank to another.
2) The best time to unberth is at slack water. But when there is a tide running, the vessel
must turn its stem into it. This is called “stemming the tide”. A large vessel does not have
steerage at slow speed. This means that it needs to be towed out of its berth. This is done by
tugs. Deckhands make fast lines from the aft end of the vessel to the tugs. The tugs then
pull the vessel away from the quay by her stern.
3) When the vessel is clear, the tugs turn her around. The tug lines are let go and the vessel
is then under her own propulsion. The master reports to the vessel traffic services (VTS) by
radio. The VTS operator tracks the vessel on radar and gives information about traffic and
dangers in the fairway.
14. What is the best title for the article you just read?
• Checks and test before leaving the quay
• Instructions to masters for unberthing
• Procedures for unberthing and getting underway
15. Match the headings below (a-d) with text paragraphs
1-3 above. There is one heading that did not appear.
a) Leaving the fairway
b) Unberthing
c) Making ready
d) Getting underway
NOT NEEDED
PARAGRAPH 2
PARAGRAPH 1
PARAGRAPH 3
16. Find words or phrases in the text that mean:
1) Fit for a voyage
2) Fasten down
3) Stabilize
4) At the turn of the tide
5) Effect of the helm
6) Deep-water channel
SEAWORTHY
BATTEN DOWN
TRIM
SLACK WATER
STEERAGE
FAIRWAY
17. PERSONAL PROJECT
Answer the following questions:
• When is a pilot normally necessary?
• What are standard pilot boarding
instructions?
• What are the required boarding
arrangements for pilots suggested
by IMO?
18. Listen to the first exchange between a ship’s captain and
a pilot station. Decide which of these statements is true.
a) The call happens after the pilot boards the ship.
b) The caller does not need a pilot.
c) The captain will make more calls to the pilot station.
d) This is the final call. There will be no more contact after this.
20. a) The vessel is not ready for the pilot.
b) Two pilots will board the vessel.
c) The pilot boat will be launched soon.
d) The vessel is not going to Gortonstown.
Listen to the second exchange. Decide which
of these statements is true.
21. 3 MILES FROM ORCA LIGHT
VESSEL/ CLOSE TO BUOY Nº1 08
PILOT LADDER ON PORT SIDE. 30
CMS ABOVE WATER.
22.
23. White Fox (Captain) Point Lucien Coast guard. This is White Fox vc4228 on channel 16❶ __________
Coast Guard White Fox VC4228 , ❷________Point Lucien Coast Guard. ❸____Ahead on channel 26. Over.
White Fox (Captain) Point Lucien Coast guard. This is White Fox on channel 26. Request: Please give signal check:
one, two, three, four. How do you ❹_______________? Over.
Coast Guard White Fox. This is Point Lucien coast guard. Answer: I ❺_________________________five.
Question: What is your position? Over.
White Fox (Captain) Point Lucien coast guard. This is White Fox. ❻____________:My position is: latitude: fifty ,
❼_____________ twenty two ❽__________north. Longitude: 0h – three – nine degrees
fifteen minutes ❾____________. Over.
Coast Guard White Fox. Question: what is your speed and ETA? Over.
White Fox (Captain) Point Lucien. This is White Fox. Information: my speed is 2 knots. ETA is 18:30 UTC Over.
Coast Guard Thank you captain. Your position is five – oh degrees, two minutes north, oh three nine degrees,
fifteen minutes west. Request: Say again speed and ETA . Over.
White Fox (Captain) Point Lucien. This is White Fox. I ❿______________ : speed is 2 knots. ETA is 18:30 UTC.
Over.
Coast Guard White Fox. This is point Lucien coast guard. Thank you captain. Nothing more.
⓫____________
OVER
THIS IS GO
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Editor's Notes
She is listing to port. You can trim a ship by moving ballast and cargo until the ship is on even keel
