to the cabin I passed Captain when he took the inventory of the slop chest.
Hmm, what do we have here? Plenty chocolate and stuff.
- Do you need anything?
- No No, I'm on my diet, I said and I was off in a jiff.
I live after the proverb:
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
I have a Master key to the doors onboard and I can open the slop chest. As you understand I try to keep the key in my cabin. Otherwise the temptation would have been too big for me when passing the slop chest. After the dinner, I was sitting in the mess room drinking tea and bragging for Captain and Chief Engineer.
We talked about chocolate and Captain had to open the door for me when we
Oil Record Book
All tankers must have a Oil Record Book
or a Cargo Record Book for Ships Carrying Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk
. Well it's the same thing and they have one in the engine department as well.
We have to fill in all operations involving our cargo of categories A,B,C and D. There is a special book where you can find the different cargoes and which category they belong to. For example Sulphuric Acid is a category C cargo.
There are different operational codes:
(A) Loading of cargo
(C) Unloading of cargo
(E) Cleaning of cargo tanks
(F) Discharging of tank washing into the sea
This is some of the code letters. After each letter there is a number (Item no.):
A.1 Place of Loading
A.2 Identify tank(s), name(s) of substances and category(ies)
C.7 Place of Unloading
C.9 Was/were tank(s) emptied?
Ok ok, I think you get the picture. It looks something like below.
Now I hope you know a little about our Oil Record Book. Otherwise let Chief Officer take care of business.