TRAINEE GUIDE - Recruit Training Command - The US Navy

TRAINEE GUIDE A-950-0001
7. Line Handling Procedures
OUTLINE SHEET 5-02-1 (continued)
a. Take in mooring lines in preparation for getting the ship
underway
(1) ____________ the special sea and anchor detail. All
shipboard personnel report to their stations.
(2) When all personnel are on station and ready to get
underway, make ____________ and ____________ reports to the
bridge via sound-powered phones.
(3) Sound-powered phone talkers must establish ____________
(i.e., perform phone checks) between their station and the
bridge.
(4) Remove bird’s nest.
(a) Line ____________ orders shipboard line handlers to
remove bird’s nest down to figure-eight turns and fake
line down on deck.
(b) CAUTION: Removing the figure-eight turns will let the
doubled section go slack and can cause snapback
condition on all lines.
(5) Single up all lines.
(a) Order received through sound-powered phones, given to
POIC, and relayed to line captain. Line captain
acknowledges order.
(b) Line captain orders ship line ____________, “Remove
figure eights and round turn slack line.” When there
is enough slack to remove line from bollard, order,
“Avast slack.”
(c) Line captain orders pier line handlers, “Cast off line
#.” Pier line handlers remove the ____________ eye
from the bollard.
(d) Line captain orders ship line handlers, "____________
around line #."
(e) When line is through chock, line captain makes report
to the POIC, “Line # ____________ up.”
(f) POIC relays message to OOD on bridge via sound-powered
phone talker
(g) Line captain orders, "____________ down line.”
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