Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

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     ORDNANCE INSTRUCTIONS

     FOR THE

     UNITED STATES NAVY.

     1866.




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ORDNANCE INSTRUCTIONS

FOR THE

UNITED STATES NAVY.


PART I.

RELATING TO THE
PREPARATION OF VESSELS OF WAR FOR BATTLE,
AND TO THE
DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND OTHERS WHEN AT QUARTERS.


PART II.

THE EQUIPMENT AND MANOEUVRE OF BOATS
AND
EXERCISE OF BOAT HOWITZERS.


PART III.

ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES.


FOURTH EDITION.--PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.


WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,
1866.




     Officers are requested to communicate to the Bureau of
     Ordnance any suggestions relative to future additions or
     corrections, with the reasons for any proposed changes,
     quoting part, page, and paragraph by its number.




CONTENTS.

[A full index will be found at the end of the book.]


                                                       PART   PAGE
Captain                                                  1     3-6
Executive Officer                                        1     6, 7
Officers in charge of divisions                          1     8, 9
Master                                                   1     9
Chief Engineer                                           1     9
Gunner                                                   1     9-12
Carpenter                                                1     12
Yeoman                                                   1     13
General distribution of officers and men at quarters     1     14-20
Distribution and arms of men at the guns                 1     21-25
Duties at quarters in battle or exercise                 1     26-40
Equipments and Implements                                1     33-35
Broadside guns, stations and gun-numbers                 1     35
Calls for assembling at quarters                         1     36, 37
Preparations for exercise at general quarters            1     38-40
Arrangements for delivering and distributing powder      1     41-45
Naval gun-carriages                                      1     45
Exercise of broadside-guns                               1     46-60
Exercise of pivot-guns                                   1     61-73
Notes upon the manual exercise                           1     74-88
The use of fuzes                                         1     89-91
Boarders                                                 1     92, 93
General precautions to be observed in time of war        1     94-96
Directions in case of fire                               1     97-100
Rifled Cannon                                            1     101-107
Monitors                                                 1     108-112
Mortars                                                  1     113-127
Miscellaneous Operations                                 1     128-131
Equipment of boats                                       2     3-9
Fixtures in boats for boat-guns                          2     6-9
Exercise and Manoeuvre for boat-howitzers                2     10-18
Exercise with howitzer on field-carriage                 2     19, 20
Remarks on the use of Naval Light Artillery              2     21, 22
Notes on the use of boat-howitzers                       2     22-24
Manoeuvres of boats armed for service                    2     24
Landing seamen, marines, and howitzers                   2     25-27
Ordnance and Ordnance Stores                             3     3-80
Inspection and Proof of Naval guns                       3     8-17
Use of the Inspecting Instruments                        3     18-21
Powder-Proof                                             3     22
Water-Proof                                              3     23
Marking guns                                             3     23
Extreme proof