How do they match: Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

  • Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

  • Mate
  • Water Vessel Captain
  • Vessel Captain
  • Vessel Master
  • Barge Mate
  • Boat Mate
  • Boatswain's Mate
  • Coastal Tug Mate
  • Dredge Mate
  • First Mate
  • Fishing Vessel Mate
  • Fishing Vessel Captain
  • Fourth Mate
  • Relief Mate
  • Second Mate
  • Ship Mate
  • Third Mate
  • Tugboat Mate

  • Command or supervise operations of ships and water vessels, such as tugboats and ferryboats. Required to hold license issued by U.S. Coast Guard.

  • Direct courses and speeds of ships, based on specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, water depths, tides, currents, and hazards.
  • Direct or coordinate crew members or workers performing activities such as loading or unloading cargo, steering vessels, operating engines, or operating, maintaining, or repairing ship equipment.
  • Dock or undock vessels, sometimes maneuvering through narrow spaces, such as locks.
  • Inspect vessels to ensure efficient and safe operation of vessels and equipment and conformance to regulations.
  • Measure depths of water, using depth-measuring equipment.
  • Serve as a vessel's docking master upon arrival at a port or at a berth.
  • Signal passing vessels, using whistles, flashing lights, flags, or radios.
  • Stand watches on vessels during specified periods while vessels are under way.
  • Steer and operate vessels, using radios, depth finders, radars, lights, buoys, or lighthouses.

  • Communicate with others to coordinate material handling or movement.
  • Direct material handling or moving activities.
  • Maintain watercraft engines or machinery.
  • Measure the level or depth of water or other liquids.
  • Operate ships or other watercraft.