USCG COXSWAIN FINAL PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Color reg 72 - ✔✔Convention on the international regulations for preventing
collisions at sea, 1972
✔✔Datum - ✔✔Most probable location, corrected for drift over a given period of time.
✔✔Length overall 45 - ✔✔44'9"
✔✔Beam overall 45 - ✔✔14'8"
✔✔Free board
Bow=
Amidships=
Aft= - ✔✔4'9"
1'11"
2' 11"
✔✔Draft - ✔✔3'4"
✔✔Highest fixed point - ✔✔13'1"
✔✔Highest unfixed - ✔✔20'9"
✔✔Water jets - ✔✔Rolls Royce 3755
✔✔Weight no crew - ✔✔36,700
✔✔Weight with crew - ✔✔37,540
✔✔Max POB - ✔✔24@210lbs
✔✔Bulge pumps - ✔✔2000g/h or 33g/m
✔✔Fire extinguishers - ✔✔4, 5lbs dry chem
✔✔Hazard areas - ✔✔Fish traps
Melville
Goat island bridge
Coasters bridge
Narrows bridge
Nannaquaket bridge
Broad cove
, Waterman street bridge
Pawtucket bridge
Bullocks bridge
Barrington river bridge
Warren bridge
Cole bridge
Lee bridge
✔✔Restricted areas - ✔✔Newport
Wickford
Allens
Greenwich
Apponaug
Warwick
Kickamuit
Cole
Lee
Warren
Bullocks
Pawtuxet
Seekonk
Brightman
Hummecks
Crook point
✔✔Lifting strakes - ✔✔3 on each side
Improve sea keeping directional
Stability and planing
✔✔Vessels moment - ✔✔The force that causes a vessel to return to an even keel
✔✔SAR authority - ✔✔Title 14, sections 2,88,and 141 of US code.
Coast guard shall develop, establish, maintain, And operate SAR facilities, and may
render aid to distressed persons and protect and save property on or under high seas
and waters subject to jurisdiction of the CG
✔✔Coxswain leaving vessel - ✔✔In coxswains judgement, after careful consideration of
the remaining crew members, the operational benefits clearly outweigh the risks
✔✔4 primary geographic divisions of responsibility for us SAR - ✔✔Inland rivers
Inland waterways
Coastal waters
Parts of the high seas
✔✔Hull design - ✔✔Planing hull
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔Color reg 72 - ✔✔Convention on the international regulations for preventing
collisions at sea, 1972
✔✔Datum - ✔✔Most probable location, corrected for drift over a given period of time.
✔✔Length overall 45 - ✔✔44'9"
✔✔Beam overall 45 - ✔✔14'8"
✔✔Free board
Bow=
Amidships=
Aft= - ✔✔4'9"
1'11"
2' 11"
✔✔Draft - ✔✔3'4"
✔✔Highest fixed point - ✔✔13'1"
✔✔Highest unfixed - ✔✔20'9"
✔✔Water jets - ✔✔Rolls Royce 3755
✔✔Weight no crew - ✔✔36,700
✔✔Weight with crew - ✔✔37,540
✔✔Max POB - ✔✔24@210lbs
✔✔Bulge pumps - ✔✔2000g/h or 33g/m
✔✔Fire extinguishers - ✔✔4, 5lbs dry chem
✔✔Hazard areas - ✔✔Fish traps
Melville
Goat island bridge
Coasters bridge
Narrows bridge
Nannaquaket bridge
Broad cove
, Waterman street bridge
Pawtucket bridge
Bullocks bridge
Barrington river bridge
Warren bridge
Cole bridge
Lee bridge
✔✔Restricted areas - ✔✔Newport
Wickford
Allens
Greenwich
Apponaug
Warwick
Kickamuit
Cole
Lee
Warren
Bullocks
Pawtuxet
Seekonk
Brightman
Hummecks
Crook point
✔✔Lifting strakes - ✔✔3 on each side
Improve sea keeping directional
Stability and planing
✔✔Vessels moment - ✔✔The force that causes a vessel to return to an even keel
✔✔SAR authority - ✔✔Title 14, sections 2,88,and 141 of US code.
Coast guard shall develop, establish, maintain, And operate SAR facilities, and may
render aid to distressed persons and protect and save property on or under high seas
and waters subject to jurisdiction of the CG
✔✔Coxswain leaving vessel - ✔✔In coxswains judgement, after careful consideration of
the remaining crew members, the operational benefits clearly outweigh the risks
✔✔4 primary geographic divisions of responsibility for us SAR - ✔✔Inland rivers
Inland waterways
Coastal waters
Parts of the high seas
✔✔Hull design - ✔✔Planing hull
