Acquaintance with Navy Regulations and Naval Instructions and General Orders of the Navy Department. Care of enlisted men’s clothing, bedding, and equipment and marking same. Emergency drills,—such as fire, collision, abandon ship, etc. NAVIGATION (_except Nautical Astronomy_) Rules for preventing collisions, international and inland. System of buoyage in the United States. Use of charts. Describe a magnetic compass. Describe how to lay a course. What is variation and deviation? Use of a pelorus. Ability to take bearings and determine position by same. Use of hand lead and precautions to be taken in obtaining soundings with hand lead. Use of soundings in fixing positions. Ability to read mercurial barometer. Ability to navigate by dead reckoning. Use of Chip log. Use of patent log. Adjustments of a sextant. Use of an azimuth circle. Use of Sir William Thompson’s sounding machine. How to obtain chronometer rate by tick at noon. NAVIGATION (_Nautical Astronomy, Sights, etc._) Ability to take and work out the following sights of the sun: Meridian altitude, time sight for longitude, obtain error of compass. SEAMANSHIP Types of boats used in the Navy and their equipment. Handling of boats under oars and sail. Boat salutes. Hoisting boats. Man overboard—lowering and handling of lifeboats. Ground tackle and how to care for. Marking chain. Duties of officer of the deck. Ship’s log, what is put in, etc. Etiquette of the side. Routine ceremonies, such as colors, etc. Orders to steersman, right rudder, etc. ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY School of the squad and company in infantry. School of the section and battery in artillery. Precautions to be taken in handling small arms and their ammunition. Describe any Navy gun with which you are familiar. Describe the projectile, fuses, and primers for any Navy gun with which you are familiar. Brief description of the care and preservation of the battery. While this mental fodder was in process of digestion, you might, perhaps, have overheard such abstruse and breezy dialogue as this, aboard the _Corsair_: “Good-morning, old top. When may the officer of the deck decline to relieve the deck?” “I pass. When shall the sides be piped, and what are the limitations placed on sending official signals?” “You can search me. But I’ll bet you don’t know how to swing ship for reciprocal bearings.” [Illustration: A LETTER FROM HOME. COALING SHIP MUST WAIT] [Illustration: CARROLL BAYNE GETS HIS ENSIGN’S COMMISSION] “A cinch, my boy. Right off the bat, now, what is the correct dope on a Traverse Table and how do you use it?” “You make me smile. Upon getting under way what special entry must be made in the ship’s log? Likewise and also, what is a Polyconic Projection? Snap it out, now!” “You poor simp! I’m the man that invented that gadget. On the level, there’s only one question on the whole list that you are sure of.”