Question 115General Subjects - 1st Asst/Chief

The correct answer is C) The manual brake hand wheels control band brakes that are associated with the wildcats only. This is because in a horizontal electro-mechanical anchor windlass, the manual brake hand wheels are designed to control the band brakes associated with the wildcats, which are the rotating devices that the anchor chain or cable winds around. The warping heads, on the other hand, are used for mooring and docking operations, and they typically have their own separate braking mechanisms. The other answer choices are incorrect because they either associate the manual brake hand wheels with both the wildcats and warping heads (option A), or they leave the association ambiguous (option D), which is not the case with this type of windlass design.