Will you pass your English test?

Recruitment usually starts with an English score. Check where you stand, learn how the tests really work, and walk into the interview prepared.

• Free English Check 20 questions in the recruitment-test style, instant score with section breakdown
• Full Practice Test 85 questions, 60 minutes, listening with real audio in the accents heard at sea
• Knowledge Test STCW-based professional knowledge check for your rank group: deck, engine, ETO, catering, with a page of sample questions per group
• Daily 5 Five fresh questions every day, build a streak between contracts
• Marlins test guide Format, sections, scoring and thresholds
• Listening section guide The seven things that lose points and a two-week plan
• Seagull CES test guide What the knowledge test really checks
• STCW English guide What the rules actually require
• Interview English The questions crewing officers ask

The English ships actually use: standard phrases with audio in the accents you hear on board, the words of the engine room, and the signals that work when the radio does not.

• Listening Practice Radio calls, announcements, engine room, crewing calls, a numbers dictation and forms to fill in from what you hear: 131 recordings in seven accents, each one switchable to a second accent, with questions and transcripts
• SMCP Trainer All 435 standard phrases with audio in five accents, listening practice included
• VHF & Channel 16 Mayday, Pan-Pan, Sécurité and routine calls, step by step with audio
• Maritime Glossary 138 terms in plain English, each with audio, plus a listen-and-pick vocabulary quiz
• SMCP basics Message markers, Mayday vs Pan-Pan, numbers
• Engine room English Machinery and watch handover phrases
• Morse Code Full table with sound, telegraph key and quiz
• Signal Flags Every ICS flag, an interactive mast and code book

The knowledge that keeps a crew alive, in plain English and free forever: read a ship at night, know every mark, sign and appliance, and check yourself with a quiz in each module.

• COLREG Lights Read a ship at night: 13 types, interactive trainer and quiz
• COLREG Give-way Rules Who gives way to whom, with the full text of Rules 4-19
• IALA Buoyage Every mark with its animated light, Region A and B
• Ship Safety Signs 130 IMO pictograms, search by colour and shape
• Life-Saving Appliances From lifejacket to lifeboat, every figure from SOLAS
• Fire Protection Classes, extinguishers, CO2, divisions and drills
• English by Ship Type Tanker, gas, container, bulk, ro-ro, offshore, general cargo: words, sentences, safety and a quiz per ship
• Lessons from Accidents Scandinavian Star, Cosco Busan, Herald, Estonia, El Faro, Costa Concordia and more: what happened, why, the lesson and the words, from the official reports
• Beaufort Scale Wind forces with WMO ranges and a converter
• Unit Converter Knots, fathoms, tons, barrels and coordinates