NAVAL PIPES AND VERBAL

ORDERS

BY

MWOSR UKPONMWAN
DEFINITIONS
Piping is a Naval means of communication.
Piping is made by the quartermaster with an
instrument called the boatswain call and
sometimes involves the use of verbal orders.

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Quartermaster: He is the eye of the Ship and is
positioned at the quartermaster lobby by the
braw at all times. As the eye of the Ship, the
quartermaster is to always remain alert, focus
on his braw and incident every activity including
the movement of personnel and visitors coming
onboard.

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ATTRIBUTES OF A QUARTERMASTER
• At all times he must be clean and neatly
dressed.
• He must be at alert.
• Must be confident.

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QUARTERMASTER LOBBY
INVENTORY

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 Serial Equipment Publication
(a) (b) (c)
1. Desk Ashore on duty book

2. Clock Ship’s log

3. Boatswain call Visitor’s book

4. Torch Daily orders

5. Telephone Night rounds report book

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6. Visitor book Up to date weather forecast

7. Pen Incident book

8. Pencil Ship’s standing order

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PIPES IN THE NN AND
THEIR VERBAL ORDERS

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 CALL THE HANDS

• Calling hands, calling hands, calling hands

• Awakee, awakee, awakee
• Rise up and shine square up your bunks
lash up and stow).
(0600 Daily Harbor, 0630 Sunday ROUTINE)

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 DUTY WATCH

Duty watch men under punishment and

stoppage of leave muster. X2(0602)

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 HANDS TO BREAK FAST

• Pipe:General Call.
• Hands to breakfast, hands to breakfast
and clean.(0700)

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 OUT PIPE

• Pipe:General Call
• Out pipe, Both watches of the hands fall
in in five minutes time. X2(0740)

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 BOTH WATCHES

• Both watches of the hands fall in. X2

(0745).

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 COLOURS/SUN SET

• Pipe:General Call.
• 10 minutes to colors, color party muster. X2
• 5 minutes to colors, color party close up. X2
• A minute to colors sir. X2
• Colors sir X2, attention upper deck face the
ensign and salute. Pipe still(pipe carry on)

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 UNCOVER/COVER GUN

• Pipe:General Call
• Hands uncover X2(after colors)
• Hands cover gun X2(after sunset

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 STAND EASY.

• Pipe:General Call
• Stand easy X2.(1130)

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 CARRY ON WITH WORK

Hands carry on with work X2.(1200)

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 DINNER

Pipe Kanwee.(1230 Sunday routine, 1300

Daily Harbor)

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 SECURE

• Pipe:General Call
• Secure, return gears liberty men to clean
X2.(1430)

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 EVENING QUARTERS

• Pipe:General Call.
• Hands falling for evening quarters X2.
(1435)

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 FIRE FIGHTING
•Pipe: General Call
•For exercise for exercise for exercise
•fire fire fire
•duty watch of all branches
•Muster quarter deck for firefighting exercise
•Duty watch of all branches quarter deck for
firefighting exercise. 1700
( Daily Harbor,
1200 Sunday Routine )

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 SUPPER

• Pipe:General Call
• Hands to supper, hands to supper.(1800)

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 PREPARATION FOR ROUNDS

• Pipe:General Call
• Duty watch, men under punishment and
stoppage of leave muster, clear all mess
decks and flats for rounds, duty watch. X2
(2000 Sunday Routines, 1900 daily harbor)

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 ROUNDS

• Pipe:General Call
• Duty watch, men under punishment and
stoppage of leave muster, standby for
rounds, duty watch. X2(1950 Sunday
Routine, 2050 Daily Harbor)

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 PIPE DOWN

• (2200 Sunday routine, 2230 daily harbor )

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 FUELING IN PROGRESS

• Pipe: General Call

• Fueling in progress fueling in progress
fueling in progress, there should be no
smoking or naked light of any kind upper
(5 minutes
deck, fueling in progress. X2
interval)

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 MAN ALOFT

• Pipe:General Call
• Man aloft man aloft man aloft, there should
be no transmission of any kind upper deck
man aloft. X25(minutes interval)

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 DIVING IN PROGRESS

• Pipe:General Call
• Diving in progress diving in progress
diving in progress, there should be no
underwater transmission of any kind
diving in progress. X25 (minutes interval )

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 REMINDER TO OFFICERS
CAPTAIN’S TABLE

• Pipe:General Call
• Reminder to officers, there will be Captain’s
Table at 1000. X2
• Pipe: General Call
• CO request men defaulters and witnesses
are to muster bridge at 1000.

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 CLEAR LOWER DECK

• Pipe:General Call
• Do you hear there, do you hear there, do
you hear there, clear lower deck, clear
lower deck, all hands muster quarter deck,
all hands quater deck.

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 SPECIAL SEA DUTY MEN
• Pipe: General Call
• Do you hear there, do you hear there, do you
hear there.
• Special sea duty men close up
• SSD men close up
• Assume NBCD state 2 condition yankee. X2
• All hands muster part of ship for leaving/
entering harbour,
• All hands part of ship for leaving/entering
harbour.
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 SECURE SPECIAL SEA DUTY MEN

• Pipe:General Call
• Secure special sea duty men, SSD men
secure
• Assume NBCD state 3 condition xray. X2

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 AIR CONDITIONING

• For effective air conditioning, close all

doors hatches and scuttles. X2

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 MSD

• MSD temporary out of use till further

notice. X2

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MOST COMMON PIPES
ONBOARD

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 PIPING FOR DUTY WATCH

• Duty watch of all branches muster

quarter deck, duty watch of all branches
quarter deck, OOD

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 WHEN PIPING FOR PERS.
• Ordinary Seaman Sunday report brow, OS Sunday braw,
OOD.
• Petty officer Friday contact braw, PO Friday braw, OOD.
• Lieutenant Musa is requested to contact braw,
lieutenant Musa braw, OOD.
• The following ratings are to contact and report braw,
petty officer Friday, ordinary seaman Sunday… OS
Sunday, PO Friday… braw, OOD.
• All junior officers are requested to contact wardroom,
all junior officers, wardroom, 1 Lt. st

• All Watch-Keeping Officers are requested to contact

bridge, all WKOs, bridge, NO
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 Note: Junior rates are to report a
part of Ship, senior rates are to contact
and officers are requested to contact.
General Call: this pipe is made before a
verbal order when it involves more than
just one personnel or when an information
is to be passed to the Ship Company.

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 Alert:

• This pipe is made when the Commanding

officer or a senior officer is approaching
your braw. It is made to alert the OOD,
AOOD and Chief of the Officer.

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 Piping the Side:

• This pipe is made when the

Commanding officer of a Ship or a
senior to your commanding officer is
coming onboard.

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 SUNSET

• Sunset has no fixed timing

for piping. Its conducted
when the sun sets for the day.

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 Note: While pipe can be made
for any officer or rating onboard,
it is also pertinent to know that
the Commanding officer,
Executive officer and Coxswain
are not to be piped for.

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NN ROUTINE PIPES AND TIMING
Serial Pipe Daily Sunday Routine
Harbor

(a) (b) (c) (d)

1. Call the Hands 0600 0630
2. Hands to 0700 0730
Breakfast
3. Out Pipe 0740 NIL
4. Both Watches 0745 NIL
5. Colors 0800 0800
6. Dinner 1300 1230
7. Fire fighting 1700 1200
8. Supper 1800 1800
9. Preparation for 2000 1900
Rounds
10. Rounds 2050 1950
11. Pipe Down 2200 2230

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 ONBOARD APPOINTMENTS
• CO – Commanding Officer
• XO – Executive Officer
• 1ST LT – First Lieutenant
• NO – Navigational Officer
• WEO – Weapon Electrical Officer
• MEO – Marine Engineering Officer
• SCITO – Ship Communication & Info Tech Officer
• GO – Gunnery Officer
• RO – Regulating Officer
• SLOGO – Ship Logistics Officer
• FO – Finance Officer
• COXSWAIN – The Most Senior Rate Onboard
• MEDICAL OFFICER
• SPORTS OFFICER
• SAFETY OFFICER
• WKO – WATCH KEEPING OFFICER

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RATES

OS – Ordinary Seaman
SM – Seaman
AB – Able Seaman
LS – Leading Seaman
PO – Petty Officer
WO – Warrant Officer
MWO – Master Warrant Officer

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THANK YOU

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