THE HOME OF NAVAL RESERVISTS IN WESTERN MINDANAO
WATCH QUARTERS
AND STATION BILL
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OBJECTIVE
Training Objective:
Upon successful completion of this subject, the
students will be able to acquire knowledge in Watch
Quarters and Station Bill (WQSB) with 100% accuracy in
accordance with Seamanship Hand guide.
Enabling Objective: At the end of this lesson, the
students will:
▪ State the purposes of WQSB and the different
condition of readiness.
▪ Identify the ship’s organization and regulation
manual.
W Q S B
▪ It shows the personnel duty assignment for a division
as specified in the ship’s Battle Organization Manual and
the Ship’s Organization and Regulation’s Manual.
▪ It’s purposed is to inform division personnel of their
assignments.
▪ It is arranged in tabular form.
▪ Columns are provided for entering data from the battle
organization manual and for the duties assigned under
certain condition of readiness of the Ship’s Bill. Some
ships have additional columns to suit their special
needs.
CONDITION OF READINESS
▪ Condition Watch I - The maximum state of readiness for battle, with the
entire crew at battle stations prepared for imminent action. Modified
version:
• Condition Watch IE - a condition to provide temporary relaxation from
the first degree of readiness and to permit designated personnel to draw
and distribute meals at their action stations.
• Condition Watch IA - frees enough personnel from their assigned GQ
stations to carry out the ship’s mission in amphibious assault operations.
▪ Condition Watch II - a special watch applicable to gunfire support ships
for situation such as extended period of shore bombardment.
▪ Condition Watch III - normal wartime cruising condition when surprise
attack is possible. Part of the armament is manned and ready for
immediate action.
▪ Condition Watch IV - that condition to provide effective ship and aircraft
control during peacetime cruising. No armament is manned.
▪ Condition Watch V - ship in port, peacetime, no armament manned.
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➢It is general directive, but it has the force and effect of regulations.
➢It is necessary to provide for almost any contingency. Routine work
and other details or duties to be performed by or assigned to the
several divisions are set forth in the manual.
➢This book outlines in a specific manner the following:
▪ Administrative Bills – These bills set forth procedures for the
everyday administration of the ship’s company where a specific
assignment of each members of the crew is required and
include the bills listed:
• Personnel Assignment
• Berthing and Locker
• Cleaning and Maintenance
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▪ Operational Bills – Detail procedures and specific assignment of men for
evolutions of a periodic nature:
• Special Sea Detail
• Underway Replenishment
• Rescue and Assignment Bill - Sets up procedures for the rescue and
assistance detail in case of a plane crash close aboard, distress of
another ship or distress ashore and rescue of survivors:
• Landing Party Bill - Provide a nominal force equipped, and organized
to perform functions ashore to police during an emergency and to take
part in parades or ceremonies: and,
• Visit and Search, Prize Crew, Boarding and Capture Bill - It
involves sending party of armed officers and men aboard a ship to
determine her nationality, type of cargo and nature of employment. A
prize crew is organized to take over a seized and captured ship and take
her to port. A boarding and capture party is organized to perform the
same duties as prize crew and it is also able to control prisoners.
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▪ Emergency Bill – Detailed procedures and specific assignment of
men to perform an evolution on short notice when there is danger
of loss of life, or of the ship itself.
• General Emergency Bill – Organizes the crew to handle the
effect of a major emergency such as collisions, grounding,
explosion, and storm or battle damage. It also provides for an
ordinary process of abandoning ship if feasible. It is set up to
assign men to necessary duties whether full crew or partial crew
is on board.
• Man Overboard Drill
• Fire in Port/At Sea
• Collision in Port/At Sea
SPECIAL SEA DETAIL (SSD)
▪ It is set whenever a ship gets underway from a pier or
anchorage and goes to sea or returns from sea to an
anchorage, or mooring.
▪ Men assigned to the SSD must be well trained and
experienced. Moving a ship into or out of a crowded
harbor can be difficult and at times, dangerous operation.
▪ In particular, helmsmen and men taking bearings, ranges
or soundings must be highly competent. There is no time
or room for a mistake.
▪ It is set about a half-hour before getting underway and
continues until the ship clears the harbor and is docked
or anchored.
REGULAR UNDERWAY WATCH DETAIL
Once the ship has cleared the harbor, the SSD
is relieved and the regular underway watch is
stationed: that is the cruising watches begin and
the regular sections of the watch take over their
prescribed duties.
