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    To board a military ship: 1. Walk halfway up the gangplank, turn around and salute the flag. 2. Ask permission to come aboard and to leave the ship. 3. The floors are called decks, walls are bulkheads, and stairs are ladders. Doors allow passage between compartments and hatches allow passage between decks.

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    Basic Seamanship Basic Shipboard Knowledge

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    To board a military ship: 1. Walk halfway up the gangplank, turn around and salute the flag. 2. Ask permission to come aboard and to leave the ship. 3. The floors are called decks, walls are bulkheads, and stairs are ladders. Doors allow passage between compartments and hatches allow passage between decks.

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    To board a military ship: 1. Walk halfway up the gangplank, turn around and salute the flag. 2. Ask permission to come aboard and to leave the ship. 3. The floors are called decks, walls are bulkheads, and stairs are ladders. Doors allow passage between compartments and hatches allow passage between decks.

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    To board a military ship: 1. Walk halfway up the gangplank, turn around and salute the flag. 2. Ask permission to come aboard and to leave the ship. 3. The floors are called decks, walls are bulkheads, and stairs are ladders. Doors allow passage between compartments and hatches allow passage between decks.

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    How to board a military

    ship

    ensign

    1. Walk half way up the gangplank, turn to the rear


    or stern and salute the ensign.

    2. Once up the plank, ask permission to come


    aboard and also when leaving, to go ashore.
    BOAT TERMS AND NOMENCLATURE
    Boat crew members often develop the habit of
    calling objects and the activities around them by
    their proper names. In times of emergency, your
    understanding and correct response to such
    terms could save valuable time.

    .
    The floors of a ship are called decks, the walls
    are called bulkheads, and the stairs are called
    ladders. There are no halls or corridors in a
    ship, only passageways. There are no ceilings
    in a room, only the overhead in the
    compartment. Openings in the outside of the
    ship are ports, not windows. Entrances from
    one compartment to another are called doors.
    Openings from one deck to another are called
    hatches. The handles on the watertight hatch
    or door are called dogs.
    Abaft - Any part of the boat aft
    of amidships.

    After end (aft) - The after end


    (aft) of a boat is the stern.
    Amidships - Amidships is a point about
    halfway between the bow and stern and the
    sides of the boat.

    Athwartships - When something is said to


    be Athwartships it’s across the boat from
    side to side.

    Forward end (fore) - The forward end


    (fore) of the boat is the bow.
    Inboard - Inboard usually describes
    the area inside the boat or an object
    nearer the centerline of the boat.

    Outboard - Outboard describes the


    area furthermost from the boat’s
    centerline or beyond the side of a
    boat.
    Starboard - When facing forward of
    the boat, your right-hand side is the
    starboard.

    Port - When you are facing forward


    of the boat, your left-hand side is the
    port.
    STRUCTURAL PARTS OF THE HULL
    The hull is the main body of the ship
    below the main outside deck. The hull
    consists of an outside covering (or skin)
    and an inside framework to which the
    skin is secured. The skin and framework
    are usually made of steel and secured by
    welding. However, there may still be some
    areas where rivets are used. The steel skin
    may also be called shell plating.
    The main centerline structural part of the
    hull is the keel, which runs from the stem
    at the bow to the sternpost at the stern.
    The keel is the backbone of the ship. To
    the keel are fastened the frames, which
    run athwartship. These are the ribs of the
    ship and gives shape and strength to the
    hull. Deck beams and bulkheads support
    the decks and gives added strength to
    resist the pressure of the water on the
    sides of the hull.
    Weather Decks

    The decks aboard ship are the same as the floors in a house. The main
    deck is the first continuous watertight deck that runs from the bow to
    the stern. In many instances, the weather deck and the main deck may
    be one and the same. Any partial deck above the main deck is named
    according to its location on the ship. At the bow it is called a forecastle
    deck, amidships it is an upper deck, and at the stern it is called the poop
    deck. The term weather deck includes all parts of the forecastle, main,
    upper, and poop decks exposed to the weather. Any structure built
    above the weather deck is called superstructure.

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