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22 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS FOR WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN. TWENTIETH INSTALLMENT. oct, 24, 225. Pass the end round the spar and its own standing part; then pass several turns round its own part. See first illustration following. It looks as though it might give way, but it will not; the greater the strain the tighter it will hold. PUBLISHED FIRST IS A TIMBER HITCH, CLOVE-HITCH OR TWO HALF- HITCHES, 226. Pass the end round the spar, crossing the standing part; then round the spar again, bringing the end through between the end part and standing part under its own part. Much used in bending a heaving line to a hawser. The second illustration the shows above clove-hitch. A clove-hitch is nothing more than two half-hitches. 227. Pass the end round the spar and over its own part, then make the fimiper hitch. Used for bending a line to a spar for towing, etc. The following illustration shows the tim- ber-hitch and the half-hitch: geo Pass the end of one rope through the crossed bight of another round the standing part, over the end part, and up through the loop under the standing part, both parts coming out at different sides. Used for binding two hawsers_ together. See illustration following: CARRICK BEND, 229. It means that if the overtak- SECOND] 1S Ao: "THE. MarRINE REVIEW ing vessel is a sailing vessel and she is overtaking a steamer (both bound the same way, of course) that the overtaking vessel must, give out of the vessel being overtaken. 230. ON THE STARBOARD TACK, ' Zot, M - in : | i | RUNNING FREF, A sailing vessel may have the wind on either quarter, or anywhere abaft the beam on either side. The above diagram shows this, | 232. To avoid a collision or seri- ous accident would starboard my helm when I had signified that I would port it, or port it when I had agreed to starboard it; blow a cross signal, or anything else that is against the rules. In doing such a thing one must be almost positive that he is doing it for the best, for if it should turn out otherwise he would be blamed for not living up to the law. 230. Register length is a little greater than keel length, being from the fore part of the outer planking on the side of the stem to the after part of the main stern-post, measured "on top of the tonnage deck, or its equivalent. The vessel's papers give _ her register length. The anchor lights for vessels of more than 150 ft. register length are twovand their heights are controlled by the ship's beam. 234. Three points abaft the port beam. 235.. Dey it out thorotghly after using and before it is put away. QUESTIONS FOR MASTERS AND MATES.--NO. 48. 646. Getting underway in a steam vessel, you are afraid of the anchor going through the bow, on account of the heavy swell running; what would you do to prevent such an oc- currence? 647. How would you get along- side of a wharf with the wind blow- ing hard against it? 648. Steam windlass disabled and at anchor, how would you get your anchor in? 649. How much cable would you pay out when turning a_ steamer round the anchor? 650. What would do if the key of the propeller was loose? 651. How would you get a tow line on board another ship in a heavy sea? 652. How would you take a turn out of the cables? 653. How would you moor with two anchors and 45 fathoms of cable? 654. What effect has a right-hand screw upon a ship going astern? 655. What is the effect of a left- handed screw upon a steamer going astern? QUESTIONS FOR WHEELSMEN AND WATCHMEN. TWENTY-SECOND INSTALLMENT. 248. Steering through the Straits of Mackinac, bound west, wind east, you hear one blast of a schooner's fog horn on your what should you do? 249. Steering of Pt. Betsey course from Chicago, and you intersect with a fellow steering to Grand Haven from Milwaukee; who has the right of way and what should you do? 250. You are steering west with the wind east, on your starboard bow you hear one blast of a _ schooner's fog horn and at the same time you hear two blasts of a fog horn on your port bow. What would you do? How is each schooner heading? II- lustrate it by diagrams. 251. The wind is NE and you are steering SSW, when you hear a starboard bow;