This Rate Training Manual (Textbook) and Nonresident Career Course form a correspondence, self-study package to provide information related to tasks assigned to the Electrician's Mate Third and Second Class. Focus is on operating and maintaining power and lighting systems and associated equipment. The 16 chapters in the text are (1) The Electrician's Mate, (2) Safety Precautions, (3) Test Equipment, (4) Electrical Installations, (5) A-C Power Distribution Systems, (6) D-C Power Distribution Systems, (7) Motor Controllers, (8) Maintenance and Repair of Motors and Generators, (9) Shipboard Lighting, (10) Degaussing, (11) Electrical Propulsion and Controls, (12) Central Operations System, (13) Basic Electronic Components and Circuits, (14) Logic Systems, (15) Electrical Auxiliaries, and (16) Sound Motion Picture Systems. Appendixes include a glossary; information on workbenches, ground requirements, and safety matting; and a chart of electronic symbols. The Nonresident Career Course follows the index. It contains 11 assignments that are organized in this format: textbook assignment and learning objective with related sets of teaching items to be answered. Learning objectives and items are based on subject matter or study material in the textbook. (YLB)