Shipboard Training Enhancement (BSMT)

Quiz No. 5

Week 15 & 16 – Stability and Trim

Control No. W16Q5-001A

INSTRUCTION: DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ON THIS QUESTIONNAIRE. On your Answer Sheet, write the
LETTER of your choice in BLOCK LETTERS. TIME LIMIT: 45 minutes

1. What are the two tables used in cargo calculations?

A. Cargo calibration tables

B. Shear and bending tables
C. Pressure and vacuum tables
D. List and trim correction tables

2. Which of the following should be observed concerning the vessel’s torsion?

A. Vessel’s draft
B. Distribution of containers
C. Distribution and weight of containers
D. Vessels’ draft and weight of containers

3. A conventional tanker has most of its tank’s slack during the discharging of oil cargo, which has no great
consequence. However, if an OBO has most of its holds slack during discharging (or loading) of oil cargo, this
will ___________.

A. likely cause a sudden or violent list due to the very large free surface in the broad beamed
holds
B. have not much effort on stability as these vessels are designed for such conditions
C. cause extreme strain to the hull on the listed side if a list develops
D. cause the vessel to develop a slow rolling motion

4. What do the intersecting horizontal lines signify in the diagram?

A. Actual angle of trim

B. The change of draft after trimming
C. The base for the two vertical lines
D. Change in the center of floatation after
trimming

5. What is the effect on draft caused by a vessel heeling or listing?

A. There is no change in draft, regardless of the extent of the list.

B. The draft is reduced by the amount the 'high' side rises above the upright position.
C. The draft is increased by the difference between the high side draft and the low side draft.
D. The draft is increased by the difference in the heeled draft measured by a straight line in
tangent with the keel, and the draft before heeling.

6. What measures regarding ship stability should be taken in order to make passenger ships able to withstand
critical damage?

A. Avoid overloading the ship

B. Maintain sufficient intact stability
C. Damaged stability to be increased by use of water ballast
D. Damaged stability to be increased by weight redistribution

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7. What is the result of a high metacentric height?

A. The vessel will have a great bending moment

B. The vessel's tweendeck heights is too high
C. The vessel will roll slowly or be unstable
D. The vessel will roll violently

8. What is dynamical stability?

A. It is the energy generated by a rolling vessel.

B. It is the measure of the work that is done when the vessel is inclined by external forces.
C. It is the expression used to describe a vessel, that is in the most stable condition possible.
D. It is the expression used to describe the transfer of buoyancy, from one side to the other, when a
vessel heels.

9. What is the critical time in a drydocking operation?

A. When they start to empty the drydock.

B. Just before the ship takes the blocks at the stern.
C. As the ship enters the dockgates, to ensure she not moving too fast.
D. After the ship has taken to the blocks, and shores are being put in place.

10. What is statical stability?

A. It is another name for the metacentric height.

B. It is the basic stability information a vessel is required to carry by law.
C. It is the relationship between the moment of a couple and the righting moment.
D. It is the ability of a vessel to return to her initial or upright position, after having been forcibly
inclined.

11. What effect does “freeboard” have on a vessel's dynamical stability?

A. It does not have any effect on dynamical stability.

B. Freeboard and dynamical stability are not related in any way.
C. If freeboard is greater, then the dynamical stability is correspondingly reduced.
D. As freeboard increases, the range of stability also increases, and this in turn leads to greater
dynamical stability.

12. What are hydrostatic curves used for in ship calculations?

A. Mainly for trim calculations for predicting end draughts

B. For pressures at various depths in oil fuel bunkers
C. Obtaining the shape of the body sections
D. For hydrostatic pressures on bulkheads

13. The Plimsoll Mark on a vessel is used to determine its ________.

A. center line
B. freeboard
C. Trim
D. Heel

14. Loadline is checked after loading to ensure that a vessel has adequate ___________.

A. list
B. freight
C. displacement
D. reserve buoyancy
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15. The aft draft marks of a vessel with a raked keel are measured from ___________.

A. under the keel at the forward tangent point

B. under the keel amidships
C. the keel at the LCB
D. the plan baseline

16. Archimedes Principle states that when a body is wholly or partially immersed in a fluid it appears to suffer
_________.

A. a loss in fluid equal to the mass it displaces

B. a loss in mass equal to the mass of the fluid it displaces
C. an increase in mass equal to the mass of fluid it displaces
D. an increase in displacement equal to the mass it displaces

17. The intact buoyancy of a vessel describes _________.

A. the buoyant volume on heel

B. the volume of spaces below the waterline
C. the volume of spaces above the waterline
D. a space that can flood without causing a ship to sink

18. A stiff vessel will have a ____________.

A. low freeboard
B. long rolling period
C. short rolling period
D. high center of gravity

19. If a vessel’s load displacement is 100 t when floating in salt water, and its lightship displacement is 65 t in
freshwater, then its deadweight is _____________.

A. 32 t
B. 35 t
C. 47 t
D. 48 t

20. To limit the free surface effect, you should ____________.

A. increase the number of slack tanks

B. limit the number of slack tanks
C. quarter fill all slack tanks
D. half fill all slack tanks

21. Loading a weight to a position above the vessel’s center of gravity will cause a _____________.

A. a decrease in KM
B. an increase in MG
C. shift in the CG away from weight added
D. shift in the CG towards the weight added

22. Water on deck will ____________.

A. cause FSE
B. cause LCP
C. cause a heel to develop
D. increase reserve buoyancy
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23. When unloading cargo from the port side lower hold the center of gravity will move _________.

A. up and to port
B. down and to port
C. up and to starboard
D. down and to starboard

24. The range of stability of a vessel in a seaway is most effected by the ____________.

A. amount of waterline
B. amount of freeboard
C. sum of the free surface
D. cargo carrying capacity

25. In rough weather, the free surface effect resulting from slack tanks in a vessel will cause a virtual _______.

A. rise of G
B. rise of K
C. increase in GM
D. reduction of FSE

26. By raising weights twice, the height above K a vessel’s rolling period is __________.

A. halved
B. reduced
C. doubled
D. increased

27. Loll can develop in a vessel which is in _________ equilibrium.

A. unstable
B. neutral
C. stable
D. load

28. To press up all double bottom tanks and lower the center of gravity of a vessel suspected of being in a state of
loll, you should first fill ____________.

A. the low side of each of the double bottom tanks

B. the high side of each of the double bottom tanks
C. both sides of all double bottom tank simultaneously
D. the high side of all double bottom tanks simultaneously

29. When using empty double bottom tanks to lower the center of gravity in a vessel in a condition of loll, then the
tanks to be filled first should be the __________.

A. longest
B. narrowest
C. shortest
D. widest

30. During the actual lift, when a vessel’s own derrick is used to swing a cargo clear of the starboard deck for
discharge on the port side wharf, the vessel’s center of gravity ___________.

A. moves upward and to port

B. moves downward and to port
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C. moves upward and to starboard
D. moves downward and to starboard

31. If a loaded vessel passes from salt water to fresh water the buoyancy due to water density on the vessel is
___________.

A. less
B. greater
C. unchanged
D. less, determined by the FWA

32. Permeability is the percentage of the volume of a compartment which _______________.

A. is occupied by water if the compartment is bilged

B. is occupied by water when the compartment is intact
C. cannot be occupied by water if the compartment is bilged
D. cannot be occupied by water when the compartment is intact

33. If a loaded vessel moves from fresh water to salt water, then its draught will ___________.

A. decrease because salt water is more dense

B. increase because salt water is more dense
C. decrease because salt water is less dense
D. increase because salt water is less dense

34. If your Loading Condition was UNSAFE on the Curve of Limiting KG, you should _________.

A. shift cargo lower

B. empty half your tanks
C. shift cargo to the stern
D. shift cargo onto the deck

35. GM cannot be used as an indicator of stability at all angles of inclination because ________ at large angles.

A. there is no M
B. M is not fixed
C. G is not fixed
D. there is no G

36. After transferring a weight forward on a vessel, the draft at the center of flotation will ________.

A. change, depending on the location of the LCG

B. remain constant
C. decrease
D. increase

37. If a vessel rolls to the starboard side, and there are no movable or moving weights onboard, the center of
gravity will _____________.

A. move to port
B. move to starboard
C. move directly down
D. stay in the same position

38. In the absence of external forces, adding weight to one side of a floating vessel, will cause the vessel to
____________.

A. list until the center of buoyancy is aligned vertically with the center of gravity
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B. trim to the side opposite TCG until all moments are equal
C. decrease draft at the center of flotation
D. heel until the angle of loll is reached

39. The existence of liquids in partially full tanks or compartments of a ship causes a virtual rise in the height of
the ____________.

A. metacenter
B. center of gravity
C. center of floatation
D. center of buoyancy

40. How can the squat effect be prevented?

A. By reducing the ship’s speed

B. By increasing the ship’s speed
C. By reducing the ship’s water pressure
D. By increasing the ship’s water pressure

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