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Kings Regulations & Admiralty Instructions - 1913

Part XVII.- Educational Test for Petty Officer (N.S.).

(See Art. 380.)

  1. The examination will be held four times annually, viz. on the first Tuesday in March, June, September, and December, commencing at 9.0 a.m., and will be completed on the same day. It will take place at the Royal Naval Barracks at Portsmouth, Devonport and Chatham, at the Gunnery and Signal schools at Portsmouth and at Sheerness, Shotley, Portland and Dundee. The examination will also be held on all foreign stations wherever the Commander-in-Chief or Senior Officer may direct.
  2. The commanding officer at each examination centre at Home and the Commander-in-Chief or Senior Officer abroad is to be responsible that arrangements are made for the identification of candidates, allocation of rooms, provision of stationery, &c., for the proper superintendence of the examination and for seeing that the candidates are qualified for examination under Art. 380, The examination, whether at home or on foreign stations, is to be under the general superintendence of an Officer of the military branch not below Commander, such other officers being detailed to assist him as may be required to ensure continuous supervision in each room during the whole of the examination. A Chief or Head Schoolmaster may be employed as assistant, but the work of supervision is to be entrusted to commissioned officers only.
  3. No candidate is to be admitted to the examination who bas not previously been recommended by his commanding officer as likely to qualify. For this purpose commanding officers should arrange for such preliminary tests as they may consider desirable.
  4. Examiners will be selected and papers sent out by the Director of Naval Education, who will also communicate with the superintending officers as to details in the conduct of the examinations. The worked papers are to be sent him as soon as the examination is completed.
  5. Care is to be taken that in every case of a certificate having been granted a notation of the date on which the examination was passed is made against the mall's name in the " Remarks " column of the ship's ledger and on his service certificate.
  6. Subjects:
    1. (a) Writing an ordinary passage of English to dictation ;
    3. (b) A simple paper on the first four rules in arithmetic, simple and compound, with vulgar and decimal fractions (no questions to involve a knowledge of special tables of weights and measures), calculating the average points obtained at practices, making out mess bills, &c., &c.

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Part XVIII.-Mechanical Tools and Stokehold Course for Ordinary Seamen.

(See Art. 377.)

The course of training in the use of mechanical tools, and in stokehold work for Ordinary Seamen who are qualifying for the rating of Able Seaman is:

(a) Training in the use of simple tools under a Chief Stoker or Stoker Petty Officer, and working at watertight doors, sluices, fire mains, ventilation system, &c., as convenient  15 days 
The following is a list of Tools:-

Levers and Jacks.
Purchases, Weston's and others.
Spanish windlass.
Hammers, hand and sledge.
Drifts and punches.
Brace and bits.
Ratchet brace.
Screwdriver, spanners, tommies.
Wedges, files, hatchet, chisel. 		 
(b) Ordinary stokehold day work, sweeping tubes and backs, cleaning, &c. 5 days
Alternate watches at the two duties working in three watches, in harbour, or while under easy steaming at sea 5 days
General stokehold watch-keeping in three watches, in harbour, or while easy steaming at sea. In Ships with cylindrical boilers part of this instruction to be, if possible, in picket or other boats fitted with water-tube boilers. 5 days
Total time under instruction 30 days

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Telegraphist Ratings.

Part XIX.-Instruction of Boy and Ordinary Telegraphists at Sea and Examination for Telegraphist and Leading Telegraphist.

(See Art. 383.)

  1. Syllabus of Instruction of Boy Telegraphists and Ordinary Telegraphists at Sea :-
    1. Flotilla Signal Book.

      2. Pages (inclusive).  
      9 to 26. Pendants and flags, and their significations with reference to manoeuvring.
      Alter course pendants and their meanings when in conjunction with numeral flags.
      216 to 218 Definitions. (Cruiser definitions.)
      228 to 231 Instructions relative to Flag Signalling.
      232 to 233 Manner of using distinguishing signals
      234 to 246 Organisation of a Fleet. Instructions for the conduct of a Fleet at night and in a fog, &c.
      253 to 262 Instructions for forming and disposing.

      Stationary signals.

      Alter course by Compass Pendant.

      266 to 269

      Semaphore. (Not to be included in Boy Telegraphists' Course..)

      286 to 292

      Instructions for the use of the Telegraph.

      292 to 297

      Instructions for signalling between the Navy and Army.

      297 to 303

      General Instructions for Cruisers. (Stationing, &c.)

      335 to 336

      Explanatory Instructions for Vocabulary Signals.

    2. Wireless and Long-Distance Signal Code (except organisation).
    3. Wireless Signal Book for Destroyers.
    4. Handbook for Wireless Telegraph Operators working installations licensed by H.M. Postmaster-General.

  2. Examination for Telegraphist and Leading Telegraphist

A maximum of a 100 marks is to be given for proficiency in each of the following subjects :

  1. As operators.
  2. In Wireless Telegraphy instructions and Signal books, including (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) as defined under 1 above.
  3. In knowledge of Wireless Telegraph Instruments.
  4. In Cruiser Dispositions and organisation of wave lengths.

The marks required to pass each examination will be as follows:

Examination for Marks required to pass.
Leading Telegraphist 300, of which 80 insist be for " as operator."
Telegraphist 250, of which 80 must be for " as operator."

The details of the examination subjects, the marks required in each, and the instructions for the conduct of examinations are contained in the " Courses of Instruction for Signal and Wireless Telegraphy Branches."

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