[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR166.01]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 166_DESIGNATION AND APPROVAL OF NAUTICAL SCHOOL SHIPS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 166.01  Approval of nautical school ships.




Sec.
166.01 Approval of nautical school ships.
166.05 Course of study for deck students.
166.10 Course of study for engineering students.
166.15 Training for maintenance of discipline; ship sanitation; fire and 
          lifeboat drills.
166.20 Applicants for certificates; when eligible for examination.

    Authority: 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3306, 8105; 46 U.S.C. App. 1295g; 
Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

    Source: CGFR 52-43, 17 FR 9542, Oct. 18, 1952, unless otherwise 
noted.


    (a) Under 46 U.S.C. 7315, graduation from a nautical school vessel 
may be substituted for the service requirements for able seaman and 
qualified member of the engine department endorsements or merchant 
mariner's documents.
    (b) It has been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Commandant 
that the school ships operated by the States in which they are located; 
namely, by the California Maritime Academy, Great Lakes Maritime Academy 
at Northwestern Michigan College, Maine Maritime Academy, Massachusetts 
Maritime Academy, New York State Maritime College, and Texas Maritime 
Academy, and by the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the United 
States Naval Academy, and the United States Coast Guard Academy, have 
adopted a course of study for their students complying with the rules 
prescribed by the Commandant, and a system of instruction adequate to 
equip the deck and engineering students theoretically and physically in 
the rudiments of seamanship and navigation necessary to qualify the 
graduates for the rating of ``able seamen'' and in all branches of 
marine engineering necessary to qualify the graduates for the rating of 
``qualified member of the engine department,'' respectively.
    (c) The school ships operated by the State organizations and the 
Federal academies named in paragraph (b) of this section are hereby 
approved and their graduates, if meeting the other qualifications 
required by law and regulations promulgated thereunder, are entitled to 
the rating of able seamen or qualified members of the engine department 
and to be certified as such.
    (d) A graduate of any of those school ships, if meeting the other 
qualifications required by law and regulations promulgated thereunder, 
is also entitled to the rating of lifeboatman and to be certified as 
such.

[CGFR 52-43, 17 FR 9542, Oct. 18, 1952, as amended by CGD 72-92R, 38 FR 
29320, Oct. 24, 1973; CGD 95-028, 62 FR 51216, Sept. 30, 1997]