One called and calls sailors humans, who have their job on ships, which transport goods and/or passengers of a country into another and/or of a port over the seas of the earth into another. The employer-employee relationship of sailors on ships under German flag is today regulated by the sailor law. The moreover doing the activities of a sailor is designated colloquially also than "Matroserei". Italian sailors were called because of their remarkable curls and their accent Lumpeys for many centuries.

Ranks

Captain (also Captain, master)

Captain on board a ship is a Nautiker, which acquired its nautical patent by school training, this first at least one year long as a nautical awake officer and afterwards either one year as a first officer or moreover two years as a nautical awake officer drove out. As legal representatives of the shipowner it leads the entire ship enterprise and carries for it the responsibility. (Trading vessel travel)

Mechanical engineer/leading engineer (also Chief Engineer, briefly: Chief on board mentioned)

The Chief is after the captain the secondarymost important person in the ship enterprise. It is responsible for the machine equipment and all technical affairs on board.

Nautical awake officer (1. , 2. , 3. or 4.)

The nautical awake officer acquired a patent for leading sea-going vessel. With its awake activity on the bridge it is responsible for the security of the ship and surrounding traffic. Today after the international STCW 95 standard for international of the 1 is trained. Officer is responsible for charge and the crew, is the 2. usually responsibly for security, fire defense and rescue as well as navigation.

Machine personnel

• Engineer/Engineer: It is subordinate directly to leading engineer
• Electrician
• Ship mechanic: with combination training for full sailor and engine-wait
• Oiler, Wiper: Lubricate and cleaning forces as well as assistants for maintenance, inspection and maintenance work

Deck personnel/Deckshands

• Bootsmann: It is subordinate directly to that 1. nautical officer and coordinates the work on deck and in the loading space.
• Ship mechanic: As a full sailor and engine-waited he is subordinate to the Bootsmann among other things.
• Full sailor/specialist/Rating/Able Bodied Seaman (light sailor with one year's travel time), he must steer and be able rudders.
• Leichtmatrose/Ordinary Seaman (sailor apprentice before the examination)
• Apprentice/Moses/Cadet: The one which can be trainee or trainee

Sailor (of medium high-German mazgenoze, compound from meal + comrade; Schiffsjunge) is a member of a crew of lowest rank.

• In the merchant fleet until 1982 a sailor was called after completion of three-year training sailor. The training as the sailor was replaced in Germany by the career profile of the ship mechanic. Still usual names for sailors are OS (ordinary seaman, light sailor) OFF and (able seaman, full sailor).
• In the German navy a sailor is the lowest crew rank. Due to the different fields of activity in the navy a sailor must have not necessarily maritime training or use. The abbreviation is Matr. The typical uniform consists among other things of a white on-board cap and a white sailor shirt with blue drilling collar.

further sailors

• Purser
• Cook
• Steward
• Scrubber

Crew

References

• Seemannsweihnacht
• Sailor radio

Literature

For the lot of the sailors in the modern times beginning see the literary report of Heinrich Hasebeck in the book Gasparan or the last travel of the Francis Drake (Benziger publishing house, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-545-36531-X), published by Andreas Venzke.

Related links

• Ranks of the navy
• German navy: Crews
• Sailor Sunday

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