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Job Description
Supervise or coordinate activities of crew aboard ships, boats, barges, or dredges.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 53-5021.02
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge”.
Also Known As…
- Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge
- Vessel Master
- Tugboat Mate
- Relief Mate
- Relief Master
- Mate
- First Mate
- Deckhand
- Deck Engineer
- Able Bodied Tankerman (AB Tankerman)
- Able Bodied Seaman (AB Seaman)
- Third Officer
- Third Mate
- Skipper
- Ship, Boat, or Barge Mate
- Second Officer
- Second Mate
- Sailing Officer
- Maritime Officer
- Fourth Mate
- Fishing Vessel Mate
- First Officer
- Ferry Terminal Agent
- Dredge Mate
- Dock Hand
- Deck Cadet
- Boatswain's Mate
Tasks for “Fourth Officer”
- Supervise crew members in the repair or replacement of defective gear or equipment.
- Assume command of vessels in the event that ships' masters become incapacitated.
- Participate in activities related to maintenance of vessel security.
- Inspect equipment, such as cargo-handling gear, lifesaving equipment, visual-signaling equipment, or fishing, towing, or dredging gear, to detect problems.
- Determine geographical positions of ships, using lorans, azimuths of celestial bodies, or computers, and use this information to determine the course and speed of a ship.
- Observe loading or unloading of cargo or equipment to ensure that handling and storage are performed according to specifications.
- Stand watches on vessels during specified periods while vessels are under way.
- Observe water from ships' mastheads to advise on navigational direction.
- Steer vessels, using navigational devices, such as compasses or sextants, or navigational aids, such as lighthouses or buoys.
- Supervise crews in cleaning or maintaining decks, superstructures, or bridges.
- Arrange for ships to be stocked, fueled, or repaired.
Related Technology & Tools
- Emergency fire pumps
- High frequency HF radiotelephone systems
- Life vests
- Synthetic mooring ropes
- Navigational compasses
- Safety lanyards
- Very high frequency VHF radiotelephone systems
- Lifeboat davits
- Cargo derricks
- Global Navigation Satellite System GNSS
- Container lift trucks
- Natural fiber mooring ropes
- Rotary displacement pumps
- Immersion suits
- Signal lights
- Ultra high frequency UHF radiotelephone systems
- Bridge to bridge radiotelephones
- Line throwing appliances
- Electric windlasses
- Sounding rods
- Radio direction finders RDF
- Life rafts
- Personal computers
- Differential global positioning systems DGPS
- Parallel plotters
- Mechanical telegraphs
- Desktop computers
- First aid kits
- Gyrocompasses
- Electric telegraphs
- Semaphores
- Hydraulic windlasses
- Magnetic compasses
- Steering control systems
- Hydraulic mooring winches
- Carbon dioxide CO2 fire extinguishing systems
- Fathometer sonar equipment
- Safety belts
- Dividers
- Ship alarm systems
- Thermal protective aids TPA
- Portable carbon dioxide fire extinguishers
- Magnet hoists
- Steam winches
- Mooring cables
- Parallel rules
- Totally enclosed motor propelled survival craft TEMPSC
- Hand windlasses
- Chain cargo falls
- Long range navigation LORAN systems
- Ship's whistles
- Respirators
- Integrated bridge systems
- Safety glasses
- Firefighting suits
- Pilot ladders
- Carbon dioxide CO2 flooding systems
- Ship anchor chocks
- Centrifugal cargo pumps
- Voice pipes
- Manual winches
- Hydraulic capstans
- Hand capstans
- Sextants
- Automatic radar plotting aids ARPA
- Sheave blocks
- Screw displacement pumps
- Portable dry chemical fire extinguishers
- Pyrotechnic distress signals
- Electric deck cranes
- Hydraulic deck cranes
- Electronic chart display and information systems ECDIS
- Rescue slings
- Gear pumps
- Safety helmets
- Global positioning systems GPS
- Emergency generators
- Electric mooring winches
- Surveillance binoculars
- Signal flags
- Fire alarm switches
- Portable water fire extinguishers
- Sounding tapes
- Grabbing cranes
- Life buoys
- Lifting spreaders
- Mooring chains
- Lifting slings
- Dynamic positioning DP systems
- Echo sounders
- Foam fire extinguishing systems
- Drafting triangles
- Log book software
- Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
- KNMI TurboWin
- Maptech The CAPN
- Jeppesen Marine Nobeltec Admiral