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I may sure every time I had my ENG1 the book with the multi coloured dots for the colour tests appeared. I think from the age of 45 the ENG1 was yearly. Maybe it depended on who the doctor was. Remember a few times when working from Silver Marine services (Brenda& Betty otherwise known as Hinge & Bracket) the doctor they used the colour test consisted of , what colour is that phone, he had a Red phone on his desk. His first question was always have you got the envelope.
Not sure about that. Acquired colour blindness can occur later in life apparently, and we had a cadet on the cadetship who was diagnosed with colour blindness. He must have been 18-19 years old and must have passed the eye-sight test on joining the MN. He became a purser as far as I am aware.
I was a Radio Officer with P & O from 1968 to 1971, and I never had to take a colour blindness test from what I can remember.
You maybe right , we all are told different stories. When the Shipping federation was closing down and they were looking for redundancies , I had to go in for a medical. I was only tested for distance , and I could not read the bottom line, I dont think most people ever could, he tried to fail me. So I went out and bought a pair of half moon glasses went back and read his bottom line. It was only postponing the inevitable though, some months later I had to accept the 1107 pounds redundancy for over 30 years service they paid out regardless. It was as that recent saying on site , do what your dog does when its had a poo kick grass over it and carry on regardless. Cheers JS
I fully agree with Ivan on this one lads, Seaman taking sea watches if a lookout cant distinguish a red light from a green one then he should not be on the wing of the bridge, Also distinguish a white light from a flashing white light, Your sight when i joined up was the first thing they checked especially if you intended going on deck then again i do remember a skipper i sailed with he wore glasses the lens where like two Guinness bottles bottoms and he was forever falling over things blind as a bloody bat there was once a big commotion on the bridge the same skipper was balling at everyone where are the binoculars there is a place for everything on this ships bridge the bloody things where swinging around his neck i think that's known as short sighted :cripes: , Good to be back posting lads i hope everyone is well and in good form Terry. :thumbsup:
fantastic, look forward to next instalment!
From Australia, I had tried for the RAN and failed the Ishihara test for colour blindness. Book with coloured dots forming numbers. They sent me down to the army and said I could drive a truck!!! . I joined the merchant navy as a cadet engineer. My dad was devastated and worried they would stop me going to sea. I was away in Melbourne. He was in Brisbane. He used to go down to the city library and copy the pages in the Ishihara book with colour pencils telling me what the numbers were and post them to me..... days before photocopiers. I really didn't worry about learning them but wish I had kept the drawings because that's a father's love. Anyway when I went for the real test and failed again, the man said..."Come over to the window", where he produced a board of electrical coloured wires. He asked me to identify..no problem. So he noted " Failed Ishihara, but passed coloured wires".
In later years when i was in the British Merch, I had to go for a medical in Liverpool. Again failed Ishihara, but no problem being an Engineer.
Me too, I never knew I was colour blind until the tests. I was once told, I may be "Ignorant of colours", not colour blind. I met a bloke when I was doing my 2nds ticket in college in the 70's . He was colour blind. He had heard there were contact lenses available in the US which could correct colour blindness.
In 1968 aged 17 1/2 I failed my driving colour test but the MN said I could join as they were only interested in Red Gree and white! I failed my eye test as well and the examiner told my father to take me for a pint to relax and come back in the afternoon. That was the start of 20 years and 12 days at sea! It was also the start of respectively failing exams, though I did end up with Master Mariner!
Nice to have you back on board Terry!Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Lead Ted
Eye tests, I had to take one when I first joined and in later years every time I went for my MOT had to take test for colour blindness also hearing test all done in Liverpool Mann island. Hi Terry good to see you back onboard, got your msg. Den