The following extracts have been kindly transcribed by Peter Monks
 
 

WARSHIPS

1 What are the main principles of warship recognition?
2 How are warships classified for recognition purposes?
3 At a distance, or in low visibility, how would you distinguish the various types of warship?
4 What are the general features of each type of warship?
5 Having recognised the type of warship, what further means of identification are possible?

MERCHANT SHIPS

6 When identifying a merchant ship, what features are noted when viewed at :-
(a) long range, (b) medium range, (c) close range?
7 Taking a specific merchant ship as an example, write notes on what is necessary for her identification.
8 In addition to these noted features, what other means of identifying her are possible.
 
 

SHIP SAFETY

1 What do the terms “ship safety” and “damage control” cover?
2 What are the main objects of damage control?
3 What are the principal types of damage which a ship may sustain?
4 What is the object of compartmentation in a ship?
5 What is the datum deck?
6 What is the difference between the meaning of a “red” and a “blue” marking on a watertight fitting?
7 Give as many examples of water-tight fittings as you can.
8 What is the emergency order for making a ship as water-tight as possible?
9 In what sequence are water-tight openings closed?
10 What are the recognised basic water-tight markings?
11 What does each marking signify?
12 What are “qualifying symbols”, and why are they used?  Name as many as you can remember.
13 What are “identification markings”, and where are they found?
14 What is a scupper and what is a drain pipe?
15 What detail about pumps and pumping systems is it important to remember?
16 What is the purpose of a safety lamp, and how is it used?
17 What are the chief dangers of a forced ventilation system?
18 What precautions are taken to guard against these dangers?
19 What do you know about secondary lighting?
20 Why is the correct stowage of kit, stores and damage control equipment so important?
21 What do you know about flash, shock, splinters and gas masks, and the precautions in relation to them?
22 Where is your knife now, at this moment?  Tie a reef knot and a bowline.
23 What is a main dressing station and what is a first-aid post?
24 What markings would you expect to find on a main traverse bulkhead?
25 To whom would you report an outbreak of fire in your ship :

(a) when at sea?
(b) when in harbour?

26 What are the dangers of indiscriminate smoking?
27 Why should locker door be fastened?
28 Why should not valves, rod gearing and similar equipment be used as clothes pegs?  Where should you not sling your hammock?
29 What is the object of lashing a hammock tautly and stowing it in a hammock bin?
30 What precautions should you take before locking up a store room or a compartment?
31 If secondary lighting lamps are placed conveniently near your slinging billet why should you not use them for reading by?
32 How far can the following be seen on a dark clear night :-

(a) a lighted match?
(b) a lighted cigarette?
(c) an unmasked torch?

33 What is the danger in wartime of indiscriminate “ditching” of “gash”.
34 In war what personal equipment should you always keep handy for immediate use?
35 What precautions should you take when closing a water-tight door or hatch?
36 What maintenance do the following fittings in water-tight doors, hatches and ports require:-

(a) rubbers?
(b) bearing surfaces?
(c) clips?
(d) hinges?

37  How should you stow a fire hose?
38  How should you dispose of an empty fire extinguisher?
39 When would you leave your post of duty?
40 What happens on the order, “Hands to emergency stations”?
41 When the order “Abandon ship” is given, how would you leave the ship?

FIRE FIGHTING

1 What three elements combined make a fire?
2 What are the three principal methods of extinguishing a fire?
3 What immediate action would you take on discovering a fire?
4 What are the disadvantages of using water indiscriminately for fighting fires?
5 Why should water not be used on electrical apparatus?
6 How would you attack a fire in a smoke-filled compartment?
7 If a fierce fire is burning in a compartment, what precautions would you take in regard to adjacent compartments?
8 Describe the operation of three types of hand extinguisher supplied in the Navy.  Give examples when each should be used.
9 How many hoses can be used simultaneously off a firemain in normal circumstances?  How can this number be increased effectively?
10 What precaution should be taken in the care and maintenance of hoses?
11 Describe the operation of a foam unit.
12 What are the fixed fire-fighting systems of a ship?
13 What types of breathing apparatus are supplied for fire-fighting in ships?  Describe briefly how each is used.
14 What are the disadvantages of using a Service anti-gas respirator for fighting fires?
15 Describe how you would tackle the following types of fire :- structural and general fires; fire in a shell room; petrol fire; hanger fire; electrical fire; cinema film fire.
 
 

Internal Organization

Voice Communication

1 What are the general rules for all methods of voice communication?
2 What are the important points to bear in mind when receiving a verbal message for transmission?
3 How do you answer a telephone call?
4 Can telephone conversations be overheard by others?
5 How do you call up anyone on a voice pipe?
6 Demonstrate your ability to broadcast a pipe.
7 How is an alarm signal broadcast?

Organization

8 Describe the watch systems in the Royal Navy.
9 What is the difference between “watch of the hands” and “watch for exercise”?  Of whom do the “duty hands” consist?
10 What is the relation between a “part of a watch” and a “part-of-ship”?
11 What is the “Watch and Station Bill”?
12 Describe the various “degrees of readiness”.
13 What do you know about the “divisional system”?
14 What is the sequence of duty watches or duty parts of watches at sea and in harbour when the ship is organized (a) in three watches; and (b) in two watches?
15 What specific duties may the “duty part of the watch” be expected to carry out in harbour?
16 What specific duties may be carried out by the “watch on deck”“?
17 Name as many evolutions as you can under the following headings:- (i) for all hands, (ii) for a watch or watches, (iii) for a part of a watch.
18 Name as many routine duties for petty officers as you can.
19 Name as many special duties for a petty officer as you can.
20 What is “special dutyman”?  Name as many special duties or parties as you can.
21 What is the “excused list”?
22 What are the duties carried out by “special sea dutymen”?  What is the difference between “special sea dutymen” and sea dutymen”?
23 What are the duties of the “cable party”?
24 What is a “”watchkeeper”?  What are the duties of the “guard”?
25 How are chief and petty officers and other ratings allocated to messes?
26 Describe the difference between “cafeteria” and “general messing”.
27 Name as many offices as you can, and describe their functions.
28 What would you expect to find in a copy of a ship’s daily orders?

Messing Provisions and Stores

29 Name and describe the various messing systems in use in the Royal Navy.
30 What is “victualling allowance”?
31 What is “”cash victualling”?
32 What does the term “provisions on repayment” mean?  What provisions are included in this term?
33 What is the weekly routine in your ship for the issue of provisions?
34 What stocks of provisions are maintained on board a battleship, a cruiser, and a destroyer?
35 How are the following provisions supplied or packed?  Sugar, haricot beans, mustard, vinegar, rice, oatmeal, jam.
36 How can you tell the difference between a cask of rum and a cask of vinegar?
37 What are “wet provisions” and what are “dry provisions”?
38 In what categories are mess traps and clothing designated?  How are they supplied?
39 What is a “naval store”?  How are naval stores classed?
40 What is a “”survey”, and what occurs at a survey?
41 What is done with an article which is categorized as (a) condemned, and (b) repairable?
42 Name the various store rooms and provision rooms in your ship and give instances of articles stored in each.
43 What are the general rules for the proper stowage of stores?
44 Where are the following liquids stowed in your ship?  Sacramental wine, rum, paraffin, paint, lubricating oil.
45 How can you distinguish a drum holding an inflammable liquid from one holding a non-inflammable liquid?
46 From which department of a Royal Dockyard are the following articles drawn?  (A) clothing, (b) vegetables, (c) wet provisions, (d) flour, (e) cordage, (f) canvas, (g) awnings, (h) hawsers, (i) wire rope, (j) rum, (k) timber, (l) mess traps, (m) kit lockers.
47 What arrangements would you make for provisioning your ship?  Where would you stow (a) potatoes, (b) fresh fruit and (c) cheese?
48 How would you stow a cask?  What is the maximum number of tiers allowed for stowage of hogsheads?  Name the parts of a cask.  How many gallons does a barrel hold?
49 Why should not a broached container be stowed with whole ones?

Rope and its Usage

Work in Cordage

1 What are the different types of seizing, and where could they be used?
2 How is a heaving mallet used?
3 How is a Spanish windlass used?
4 What is the relation between the size of a seizing and the size of the ropes on which it is used?
5 Where would the following be used:- cut splice, chain splice, Flemish eye, grommet and becket?  Demonstrate each answer.
6 How is a rope wormed, parcelled and served?
7 Why is a rope wormed, parcelled and served and what precautions is necessary with a rope so fitted?
8 Demonstrate the following knots, and give instances where they would be used:- manrope knot; Turk’s head–standing, running and on the bight; double Matthew Walker; stopper knot; monkey’s fist; heaving line knot; sennet knot; double diamond knot.
9 Demonstrate the following, and give instances of the use of each one:- pointing, grafting, coach whipping, half hitching, continuous walling, ringbolt hitching.
10 Describe how a cargo net is made?

Wire Rope Splicing

11 Demonstrate the following wire rope splices:- short splice, long splice, and eye splice.
12 How is a large wire rope broken in around a thimble?
13 How is a grommet strop made?
14 How is the strength of a grommet strop calculated?
15 Where is a reduced eye used, and how is it made?  What is the strength of a reduced eye in comparison with the rope?
16 How is cordage spliced into the wire rope, and where would this be necessary?

Hawsers and their Handling

17 What is the difference between a hawser, a berthing hawser and a hurricane hawser?
18 What is the length of a fibre hawser, and a wire hawser?
19 How would you bend a heaving line to the bollard eye of a berthing hawser, and a messenger to a hawser eye of a hawser?
20 When a wire hawser is belayed to a singe bollard, why should the end be seized to the hauling part?
21 When securing two or more berthing hawsers to a single bollard, how should the bollard eyes be placed over the bollard, and what is the reason for this?
22 How are the turns of a wire hawser racked when belayed to twin bollards?
23 How is a towing hawser belayed to twin bollards?
24 What is the difference between a rope stopper, a chain stopper, a chain check stopper, and a carpenters stopper, and where would each be used?
25 When using a rope or chain stopper, how is the loss of slack avoided when the hawser is belayed?
26 How is a heavy hawser controlled when being paid out?
27 What roughly is the holding effect of the turns of a wire hawser round a bollard?
28 Name the berthing hawsers of a ship secured alongside a jetty.
29 What attention should always be given to a wire hawser as it is being reeled up?
30 How is the end of a wire hawser secured to the spool of its reel?

Types, Characteristics, and Maintenance of Rope

31 Why is acid harmful to wire hawsers?  What lubricant would you use for a wire hawser?
32 How can the different types of cordage supplied to the Royal Navy be distinguished?
33 Place cordage made of Italian hem, sisal, manila, and coir in their order of precedence in regard to their strength, weight, flexibility and wearing qualities.
34 Place the following types of cordage in their order of precedence in regard to strength:- cable-laid rope, hawser-laid rope, shroud-laid rope, bolt-laid rope, stage lashing, and spunyarn.
35  What are junk and rumbo?
36 What is the difference in construction of signal halyard, log line and lead line?
37 For what purposes are the following small stuffs used:- twine, mackerel line, marline and nettlestuff?
38 What is the jaw of a rope?
39 What are the main differences between hard and soft laid ropes?
40 When estimating the fitness of a rope for any purpose what feature should be examined?
41 Before deciding to turn a boat’s fall end for end, what special features should be looked for?
42 What are:- Lang’s lay; preformed rope; composite rope?
43 What are tulips, sockets, swaged ends, and Bordeaux connections, and where would you expect to find them?
44 How would you distinguish a 3-inch S.W.R., a 3-inch F.S.W.R., and a 3-inch E.S.F.S.W.R. from each other?
45 What is the relative flexibility of a 3-inch 6 x 12 F.S.W.R. to a 3-inch 6 x 37 E.S.F.S.W.R. and a ½-inch 6 x 19 E.S.F.S.W.R. to a 2-inch 6 x 12 F.S.W.R. ?
46 What is the “factor of safety”, and what is its value for hoists, running rigging, slings, and hawsers?
47 What is the general relationship between the diameter of a sheeve and the lift of the wire rope working around it?
48 If a lift rope showed signs of undue wear, what would be the probable cause?
49 If a 4-inch F.S.W.R. is lead round a shackle bolt of 2-inch diameter, what stress would you expect the rope to withstand?  Does the strength of the rope decrease the further it is bent around the bolt?
50 In what way would a wire rope show signs of strain?  When estimating the fitness of a wire rope for any purpose, what features should be examined?
51 How often should wire ropes of hoists be examined?  What is the signification of a broken wire in the rope of a hoist?
52 What effect, if any, does extreme cold have on wire rope?

Miscellaneous Rigging

1 What is a “rigging warrant”. What is its purpose, and what items are included in it?  Where are details of a ship’s hawsers and awnings to be found?
2 Describe how dressing lines are rove in your ship.
3 Describe how guardrails are fitted and rove.
4 Describe how shrouds are rattled don.  What is the use of a sheerpole?
5 Describe how you would send down a slung yard.
6 Describe how you would cross a yard to a mast.
7 Describe how you would strike a fidded topmast.
8 How would you unship the lower boom of your ship and stow it inboard?
9 How is a telescopic mast housed?
10 What different types of ladder are provided in H.M. ships?  Describe with the aid of a sketch, a warship’s accomodation ladder and its rigging.  What are the tide spars and how are they rigged?  What is the guest warp?
11 State what you know about the principles of fendering.  Describe the various fenders in common use at sea, and give examples of where each may be used.
12 Demonstrate how you would rig and sling a stage for painting the ship’s side, and a bosun’s chair on a gantline.  How would you rig stages for painting a cruiser’s funnel?
13 Demonstrate how you would fish a destroyer’s lower boom which has been broken in its middle.

Awnings

14 Describe the parts of an awning, also the method of rigging a small awning, and a tented awning.
15 Describe the uses and rigs of awning curtains, side screens and gable ends.
16 How would you spread and furl a small awning in a strong breeze?
17 How is a tented awning usually spread?  How would you furl a tented awning in a strong wind?
18 What are the “fixed points” of an awning, and what is their importance when spreading an awning?  State what you know about the care and maintenance of awnings.

Sailmaking

19 Describe the elastic properties of canvas and its limitations.  How would you paint a canvas guardrail screen, and a canvas reel cover?
20 How is canvas supplied?  What is the purpose of the coloured lines in canvas?  What types of canvas are supplied to H.M. ships, and for what purpose is each used?
21 What tools are required for sailmaking and what is the purpose of each?  What are the three chief methods of sewing canvas, and for what is each used?
22 Demonstrate your ability to sew two pieces of canvas together, and to repair a cornered rent in a piece of canvas.  Demonstrate your ability to fit an eyelet in canvas.

Derricks

23 Describe, with the aid of a sketch, the rigging of a merchant ship’s derrick.  How is a snotter used?
24 Describe the workings of a derrick by union purchase method.  What is a “deadman” and how is it used?
25 Where would you find the markings for the safe working load of a hoisting system used in H.M. ships?  Are the proof or safe working loads of the component parts of such hoisting systems marked on those parts?  If not, why not?
26 How is the derrick of one of H.M. ships tested?
27 How would you find the lifting capabilities of a cruiser’s crane?
28 What maintenance and tests are required for cranes?

Slinging

29 State what you know of the principles governing the slinging of loads.
30 What is the safe working load of a four-legged sling made of 2-inch F.S.W.R.?
31 What is the approximate safe working load of a cordage provision net, and of a wire rope provision net?

Extempore Derricks

32 What are the chief differences between a standing derrick, a swinging derrick, sheers, and a gyn?
33 How would you rig a standing derrick, a swinging derrick, sheers and a gyn?

Strengths of Rigging Fittings and Gear

34 When estimating the pull required on the hauling part of any particular tackle what allowance would you make for friction?
35 The eyebolt to take the upper block of a tackle is tested to 2 tons and you want to lift a weight of 18 cwt. on it; what tackle would you use and how would you reeve it?
36 You wish to lift a weight of 2 tons with two men; what tackle would you use?
37 What is the safe lifting load of a 3½-inch luff: (a) when rove to advantage?  And (b) when rove to disadvantage?
38 How would you prevent turns from forming in a tackle?
39 Demonstrate how you would reeve a three-fold purchase.

Geared Blocks

40 What advantages have geared blocks over tackles?  Name the different types of geared blocks in common use at sea and give examples of the use of each.

Estimation of Stress

41 If you are told to rig a swinging derrick for a safe working load of 12 tons, for what loads would you provide at the attachment points of the various blocks if the derrick were rigged (a) with a single whip, and (b) with a double whip?

Boatwork

1 As coxswain of a bot what navigational information would you ask for if ordered to go to a strange landing place?  What signals should you always be able to identify when away in a boat?  What details of the boat’s equipment would you check when getting under way?
2 Why is a person not allowed to place his arm or hand on the gunwale of a boat?
3 Why should not a boat be hauled ahead from an inner billet when casting off from a lower boom in a tideway?
4 When a boat is unhooked from, or hooked on to, her falls, which fall is hooked on first, and which is unhooked first?  Give the reason in each case.
5 Why should the bows of a ship anchored in a tideway be given a wide berth?  Describe how you would make you boat fast alongside a ship’s ladder in a tideway.
6 What is the maximum number of persons which may be carried in a cutter and a whaler (a) in calm weather, and (b) in rough weather?
7 When loading your boat with stores how would you stow them?  What precautions would you take if ordered to bring off a valuable package?
8 Describe how you would anchor your boat (a) on a sandy bottom in 2 fathoms, ((b) an a rocky bottom in 3 fathoms, and (c) off a steeply shelving beach when the boat is to be left unattended.  If your boat is anchored in rough sea and snatching at her cable, what would you do?
9 Describe how you would make your boat fast to a lower boom, and what details you would attend to before allowing the crew to leave her.  What details would you attend to after your boat is hoisted inboard?

Stowage of Boats

10 What precautions should be taken when pitching a boat?
11 Describe how you would stow a boat whose crutches are not available.
12 Describe the three main types of boat’s davits in general use.
13 What extra davit fittings and gear are required for a seaboat?  How would you turn in a boat hoisted at radial davits.
14 Describe the fittings of hinged davits.
15 How are the seaboat’s falls rove in your ship, and what is the length and size of each fall?  When are the boat’s falls renewed or turned end for end?  When inspecting a boat’s falls what details would you look for?

Slinging, Lowering, hoisting, and Securing Boats

16 What is the difference between a boat’s hull slings and purchase slings?  Describe the method of slinging: (a) a boat hoisted at the davits, (b) a round-bilge boom boat, and (c) a hard chine-boat boom-boat.  What is a Robertson’s common hook and where is it used?  What is a spreader sling used for, what is its purpose, and how is it marked?  When are a boat’s slings fitted, and who fits them?  When a boat is returned to store should her slings be returned with her?
17 Describe briefly the operation of Robertson’s disengaging gear.  Demonstrate your ability to set up the disengaging gear of a seaboat.
18 Describe how you would rig and equip a seaboat.
19 As coxswain of a seaboat what details would you check when taking over your duties, and what report would you make?  How would you secure the boat-rope, and what are its uses?  Why is the tiller of a seaboat stopped towards the side of the boat next to the ship?  How would you tel the difference between a port and starboard seaboat?  How would you prevent turns from forming in the falls as the boat is hoisted or lowered?  Is there any need to take the turns out of a seaboat’s fall before it is hooked on?  Why is nobody allowed before the foremost fall, or abaft the after fall, when a boat is being hoisted or lowered?  When a boat is being lowered in a seaway how is she prevented from surging, and from swinging towards or away from the ship’s side?
20 Describe the drills for hoisting and lowering a boat at davits in harbour.  Describe the drills for hoisting and lowering a seaboat at davits.
21 How would you hoist a swamped boat?
22 Describe how a boom-boat is hoisted in and out in rough weather.

Boat Sailing

25 Demonstrate your ability to instruct the crew of a whaler in sail drill.
26 What are the differences between close-hauled, reaching, and running?  When is a boat sailing free?  When is a boat on a port tack, and when is she on the starboard gybe?  What do the following terms mean: to miss stays, to be in irons, to bear up, to keep away, to luff, lee helm, to pinch, and to settle?
27 Why is the trim of a sailing boat so important?  Why is it inadvisable for a boat to carry lee helm?  How would you correct lee helm?  How would you trim your boat when running, reaching, and beating?
28 Describe how you would tack, and wear, in a whaler.  If your boat is “slack in stays” (i.e. sluggish in going about) how would you guard against missing stays?  If your boat gets in irons what would you do?  When would you use your bearing out-spars?  Why would you avoid running dead before the wind in a rough sea?  What would you do is your boat was struck by a squall when reaching, running, and beating?  Describe how you would take down a reef in a whaler’s mainsail.
29 What is the object of a drop keel?  In what position would you have your drop keel when running, reaching, beating, and approaching shoal water?
30 Describe how you would get a whaler under way from alongside a ship’s ladder, and from the lower boom.  Describe how you would go alongside the ladder of a ship swung head to wind.  Describe how you would go alongside a landing place down wind.
31 What would you do if one of your crew falls overboard when reaching or running in a whaler.
32 What is a sea anchor?  When and how is it used?
33 Describe how you would heave to in a whaler.
34 How would you stretch a new suit of sails?  What care should be given to a boat’s sails?  How would you bend a whaler’s mainsail to its yard, and her mizzen to its mast and boom?  How would you lace the luff of a mainsail to the mast?
35 How are a boat’s sails marked?

Handling of Power Boats

36 How is the direction of rotation of a power boat’s propellers described?
37 What is the maximum rudder angle of a power boat?
38 Why is it inadvisable to use full rudder at full speed in a heavily laden boat?  Why should passengers and stores be distributed amidships in a boat?
39 What are the dangers of running before a heavy swell?  When going alongside a ship anchored in a strong tideway why should you avoid overshooting her accommodation ladder?  How would you secure your boat alongside a landing place?  Describe the uses of head and back springs when going alongside or leaving a landing place?  How would you know if your boat was running into shoal water?  Why should you avoid taking your boat into muddy or sandy water?  Describe how you would take in tow: (a) a cutter full of libertymen, and (b) a number of pulling boats.  How would you decide whether your boat is capable of taking another boat in tow?  How would you take a lighter in tow?
40 Demonstrate your ability to handle a power boat.  What are the chief differences in the handling of round-bilge and hard-chine boats?  Describe the action of a “Kitchen” rudder.  How do loading and trim affect the performance of a hard-chine boat?  Describe how you would turn about a single-screw boat in a narrow fairway.
41 Describe the starting and stopping routines for any power boat in your ship.  Why should engine controls be left in their correct positions when the boat is made fast?  What should you do if you have to leave any control. Cock or valve in an unusual position?  Describe the daily routine maintenance of any power boat in your ship.  Why should you keep your engines clean and bilges dry?  When is an engine most likely to catch fire and why?
42 Describe the different methods of taking boats in tow.

Special Boat Operations

43 How would you beach a whaler on a gently sloping sandy beach with a crew of four men?
44 What are the dangers of surf?  Describe how you would land a whaler through surf, and take her out through the surf to your ship.
45 Describe how you would board a ship which is hove to at sea.
46 Describe how, using a whaler, you would rescue the crew of a 100-ton yacht stranded on rocks.
47 Using a whaler, what precautions would you make before recovering a practice torpedo, and how would you grapple and tow it?  What precautions should be taken before taking a practice torpedo in tow?
48 What information is required before beginning to sweep for a sunken torpedo?  What gear is required for sweeping with boats for a sunken torpedo?  Describe how you would sweep for a sunken torpedo and recover it.
49 Describe the rig of a diver.  How would you rig a diving boat?  What precautions should be taken before a diver is sent down to inspect (a) a ship’s underwater fitting, and (b) a ship’s propeller?

Repair and Buoyancy of Boats

50 How would you make an emergency repair of a small hole in a boat?  How would you make a temporary repair of the same hole?
51 What reserve of buoyancy is required for Service pulling and sailing boats?  Describe how you would test a boat for buoyancy.  If, after a test, a boat is found to have a negative equivalent to ¾ cwt. what would you do?  How can you find buoyant capacity of a boat?  How can you find the buoyancy of a cask?

Supply and Fitting out of Boats

52 In what condition is a boat when supplied from the dockyard to a ship, and to what scale is she then equipped?  How can you check the equipment of a boat when supplied one of H.M. dockyards?  What further equipment is necessary to fit out a boat on receiving her from a Royal Dockyard?  What lists and equipment should accompany a boat when she is transferred from a ship to a Royal Dockyard?  Are a boats slings part of her equipment?  Who fits a boat’s slings and when are they fitted?
 
 

1 On the first entry, Boys are to make themselves acquainted with the Printed Orders, posted up in the Establishment for their information, a careful observation of which will prevent their getting into trouble.
2 Boys’ letters are to be addressed with their Christian and Surnames in full; Their number on Ship’s Books, and the number of their Mess being written under their names.
3 Silence is to be kept after ‘Lights Out’.  Boys are to turn out smartly when the Hands are called in the morning.
4 Prompt and unquestioning obedience to orders is essential.  Talking and skylarking when on duty or when fallen are forbidden.
5 Should boys ever require any information or advice upon any subject whatever, they should go to their Instructors or to the Officers of their Division.
6 Boys are on no account to enter any Ship’s Company’s Quarters.
7 Watches, articles of value, and any sum in excess of 11 shillings are at once to be taken to the Regulating Office to be turned over to the Accountant Officer for safe custody.
8 Any Boy receiving a Postal Order is immediately to take it to the Mail Office to be stamped, and cash it at the Canteen at the first opportunity.  He is never to retain more than 11 shillings in his possession.
9 Boys are prohibited from procuring Clothes, Knife-lanyards, or other articles of their kit, or cigarettes or matches, either from their friends, or by purchase on shore, and all such articles found in their possession will be confiscated.  Boys are not to carry knives.
10 During Leave on Shore Boys are forbidden to enter Public houses or Clothes Dealers’ Shops; they are not to lounge about or assemble in groups in the streets or pathways.  They are not to trespass, but keep to the highways and public paths.
11 No Boy is to have smoking materials in his possession.  The use of tobacco or smoking material, including matches, on shore as well as on board is forbidden.
12 A Boy missing any articles of his Clothing, however small, should at once report the fact to the Instructor of his Class; and anything found is to be taken without delay to the Regulating Office.  It is regarded as a serious offence for a boy to be in possession of any gear belonging to another boy.
13 Boys are on no account to alter their uniform.  They should always appear neatly dressed, and keep their clothes well marked, properly made up and stowed away.
14 Borrowing or lending money or private property (including articles of kit) or any form of exchanging, selling, or giving away, is forbidden.
15 Fighting, quarreling, gambling, tattooing, bad language, and the use of intoxicating liquors are forbidden.
16 No Boy is to leave his Class or place of duty without first obtaining permission from the Instructor or whoever is in charge.  Any Boy wishing to report sick is to report the fact to his Instructor.
17 Boys should never break their leave, or abuse privileges and must remember that by being steady, they will not only avoid getting themselves into trouble, but will be doing what they can to ensure future success in life.
 
 

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