A11.
A strongback is a bar or beam of wood or
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metal that is used to distribute pressure or to
A1.
What document provides several repair locker
serve as an anchor for a patch. The
inventory lists for various types of ships.
strongback is often shorter than a shore.
(2) The Allowance Equipage List
(1) True
A2.
On a Navy ship, what personnel are
A12.
What is the fully extended load for the model
responsible for damage control? (1) All
6-11 steel adjustable shore? (4) 6,000 pounds
hands
A13.
A steel wedge is considered more valuable as
a prying tool than for actual shoring. (1) True
A3.
After each use, all damage control kits and
repair locker equipment must be inventoried
A14.
The most rapid and accurate way to measure a
to meet what requirements? (2) PMS
shore for cutting is to use an adjustable
shoring batten. (1) True
A4.
What holes should be given priority when
plugging is needed? (4) Holes at the
A15.
Which of the following types of equipment
waterline or low side
are available on the ship in case a space is
inaccessible due to damaged doors, hatches,
A5.
The one very important thing to remember
and/or scuttles? (4) The Portable Hydraulic
about flooding is that a ship can sink just as
Access and Rescue System (PHARS) and
easily from a series of small and insignificant
the Portable Exothermic Cutting Unit
looking holes as it can from one large and
(PECU)
more dramatic looking hole. (1) True
A16.
PHARS can be utilized in emergency access,
A6.
Plugs made of softwood, such as yellow pine
personnel rescue, or fire-fighting operations
or fir, are quite effective for plugging holes up
involving spreading, cutting, pulling, and
to what size? (3) 3 inches by 3 inches
piercing light plate or sheet metal. (1) True
A7.
It is best to wrap a plug with lightweight cloth
A17.
The PECU utilizes expendable cutting rods,
before inserting it because the cloth keeps the
which operate on the exothermic torch
plug in place and fills gaps between plugs.
principle. (1) True
(1) True
A18.
What is the maximum pounds of pressure a
A8.
What type of patches are effective for use
jubilee patch can resist? (1) 100 pounds
over holes that have jagged edges projecting
inboard? (4) Box
A19.
What is the maximum pounds of pressure a
soft patch can resist? (3) 150 pounds
A9.
Which of the following woods are best to use
for the construction of shores? (3) Douglas
A20.
When casualty power cables are rigged, the
fir and yellow pine
connections must always be made from the
load to the supply to avoid handling energized
A10.
A shore is a portable beam, a wedge is a
cables. (1) True
block, triangular on the sides and rectangular
on the butt end, and a shole is a flat block that
A21.
Which of the following machinery can NOT
be supplied by the casualty power system?
may be placed under the end of a shore to
(4) Main boiler plants
distribute pressure. (1) True
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