🔍 Key Concepts

• General alarm patterns and their traditional meaning aboard ships • Difference between signals for fire/emergency, abandon ship, and boat lowering • SOLAS requirements for musters and drills – how the crew is first alerted

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: What is the very first signal used to get everyone’s attention and assemble them when something serious happens on board? • Which situations (fire, abandon ship, drills ending) would require people to immediately go to their muster stations rather than directly enter boats or leave stations? • Think about which of these options would more likely have additional orders or signals after the initial general alarm is sounded.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which option refers to the initial alert that something is wrong and everyone must report to their assigned stations. • Check whether abandon ship or lower lifeboats would normally be ordered verbally or by separate command after the general alarm, rather than being the meaning of the alarm itself. • Confirm that dismissal from drills usually involves a different signal or verbal order, not the prolonged general alarm.