June 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1485

Answer.—Compass course :
Distance :
Variation :
Deviation :

2. With the ship’s head on the above-named compass course, a [point] [lighthouse] bore by compass and bore by the same compass. Find the ship’s position.
   Answer.—Latitude :
   Longitude :

3. With the ship’s head as above, a [point] [lighthouse] bore by compass , and after continuing on the same course miles it or another point bore . Find the position of the ship and her distance from at the time of taking the second bearing.
   Answer.—Latitude :
   Longitude :
   Distance :

All the foregoing questions must be answered, but this does not preclude the Examiner from putting any other questions of a practical character, or which the local circumstances of the port may require.

Additional Questions for Masters, including Masters of Home-trade Ships.

4. Find the course to steer by compass from to (see Question 1) to counteract the effect of a current which set at the rate of miles per hour, the ship making by log miles per hour; also the distance the ship would then make good in hours towards .
   Answer.—Compass course :
   Distance :

5. On being off , took a cast of the lead; required the correction to be applied to the depth obtained by the lead-line before comparing it with the depth marked on the chart.

6. What do you understand the small numbers to indicate that you see placed about the chart, and at what time of tide?

7. What do the Roman numerals indicate that are occasionally seen on the chart near the coasts and in harbours?

8. How would you find, approximately, the time of high water at any place, the Admiralty tables not being at hand, nor any other special tables available?

All the foregoing questions, and those on Form Exn. 9c, must be answered, but this does not preclude the Examiner from putting any other questions of a practical character, or which the local circumstances of the port may require.

———

APPENDIX H.
———

QUESTIONS RELATING TO CYCLONES, OR REVOLVING STORMS COMMON IN TROPICAL SEAS.

THE candidate must answer in writing, on paper supplied by the Examiner, the following questions, numbering the answers to correspond with the questions:—

1. The direction of the wind in a cyclone being , state the probable bearing of its centre from the ship in the Hemisphere.

2. And suppose that the wind during the passage of the same cyclone were found to change towards the* , what would be the ship’s position with reference to the line of progression of the centre of the cyclone, and what action would you take?

3. Under what conditions would the change in the direction of the wind in the cyclone be the reverse of the above?

4. What are the usual indications of a ship being on the line of progression of the centre of a cyclone?

5. What are the usual indications that a ship is (a) approaching the centre of a cyclone, (b) receding from it?

6. Describe the track usually taken by cyclones in the* , and state the seasons of the year in which they most frequently occur in that region.

• The Examiners to fill in whether North Atlantic, Bay of Bengal, China Seas, Indian Ocean, &c.

———

APPENDIX I.
———

DEVIATION OF THE COMPASS, FOREIGN-GOING SHIPS.

QUESTIONS ON THE DEVIATIONS OF THE COMPASS USED IN THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATES AS MASTERS OF FOREIGN-GOING SHIPS, AS GIVEN ON EXAMINATION FORMS EXN. 7 AND EXN. 7A.

THE candidate is to answer correctly such of the following questions as are marked with a cross by the Examiner. At least twelve will be marked.

The Examiner’s attention is specially called to the importance of Questions 11, 12, 13, 14, and 39, which must be marked in all cases.

1. State briefly the essentials of an efficient compass.

2. State briefly the chief points to be considered when selecting a position for your compass on board ship, and what should be particularly guarded against.

3. What do you mean by deviation of the compass, and how is it caused?

4. Describe how you would determine the deviation of your compass: (1) by reciprocal bearings; (2) by figures on the dock-walls; (3) by bearings of a distant object; (4) by the bearings of the sun or other celestial body.

5. Having determined the deviation with the ship’s head on the various points of the compass, how do you know when it is easterly and when westerly?

6. Why is it necessary, in order to ascertain the deviations, to bring the ship’s head in more than one direction?

7. For accuracy, what is the least number of points to which the ship’s head should be brought for constructing a curve or table of deviations?

8. How would you find the deviation when sailing along a well-known coast?

9. Name some suitable objects by which you could readily obtain the deviation of the compass when sailing along the coasts of the channel you have been accustomed to use.

10. Supposing you have no means of ascertaining the magnetic bearing of a distant object when swinging your ship for deviations, how could you find it, approximately, from bearings of the object taken with the ship’s head on equidistant compass points; and what distance, as a rule, should the object be from the ship?

• These spaces to be filled in by the Examiners, and frequently varied.