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1.  List the major factors considered in the construction of naval ships.

2.  Provide the nautical terms for these civilian terms:

1. outer walls
2. inner walls
3. floors
4. ceilings
5. hallways
6. stairs
7. entrance hall

3.  What nautical names are given to these parts of a ship?

1. front part
2. back part
3. middle of ship, lengthwise
4. lengthwise direction
5. crosswise direction
6. midpoint area
7. widest part of ship
8. main deck, forward
9. main deck, aft
10. main deck and above
11. below the main deck
12. right of centerline
13. left of centerline
14. in the rigging

4.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What name is given to the girders attached to the keel the support the watertight skin of the ship?

2. What is the watertight skin called

3. What additional strengthening beams run fore and aft?

5.   What is another name for the deck-edge where the main deck meets with the shell or side plating.

6.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. How are all compartments in a ship identified?

2. How are the decks of a ship supported?

7.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. How are decks numbered below the main deck?

2. Above the main deck?

8.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What name is given to all structures above the main deck?

2. What is the highest structure above the main deck?

3. What equipment is installed on this structure?

9.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What main components does a steam propulsion plant have?

2. What is the biggest difference between a steam and a nuclear-powered vessel?

10.  Briefly describe how a gas turbine engine works.

11.  What part of the propulsion system actually drives the ship through the water?

12.  Why is there heavy shielding around the reactor compartment of a nuclear propulsion plant?

13.  Where are ships built?

14.  What are the basic steps in building a ship?

15.  In what three ways can a ship be launched?

16.  Who chooses the name of a new ship?

17.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. Who places a naval ship in commission?

2. What is the first order of the new commanding officer after he or she reads the orders?

18.  What are the purposes of the shakedown and underway training cruise?

19.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What is a ship's designation composed of?

2. What are the first-letter designators of major naval vessels?

20.  Answer each of the questions below in the space provided:

1. What determines a class of ships?

2. What do the letters G and N indicate in a ship's designator?

3. What does a T before a ship's designator mean?