[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR12.15-15]

[Page 224-225]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 12_CERTIFICATION OF SEAMEN--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart 12.15_Qualified Member of the Engine Department
 
Sec. 12.15-15  Engineman.

    (a) An applicant for a certificate as engineman shall be a person 
holding a merchant mariner's document endorsed as fireman/watertender 
and oiler, or junior engineer. The applicant shall be eligible for such 
certification upon furnishing one of the following:
    (1) Satisfactory documentary evidence of sea service of 6 months in 
any one or combination of junior engineer, fireman/watertender or oiler 
on steam vessels of 4,000 horsepower or over; or,
    (2) Documentary evidence from an operator of a partially automated 
steam vessel that he has completed satisfactorily at least 2 weeks 
indoctrination and training in the engine department of a partially 
automated steam vessel of 4,000 horsepower or over; or
    (3) Satisfactory completion of a course of training for engineman 
acceptable to the Commanding Officer, National Maritime Center.
    (b) The Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, who is satisfied that 
an applicant for the rating of engineman meets

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the requirements specified in this section, will endorse this rating on 
the current merchant mariner's document held by the applicant.
    (c) Any holder of a merchant mariner's document endorsed for any 
unlicensed rating in the engine department, QMED--any rating or deck 
engine mechanic is qualified as an engineman and that endorsement will 
not be entered on his document.

[CGFR 66-46, 31 FR 13650, Oct. 22, 1966, as amended by CGD 95-072, 60 FR 
50460, Sept. 29, 1995; CGD 95-028, 62 FR 51196, Sept. 30, 1997; USCG-
1998-4442, 63 FR 52189, Sept. 30, 1998]