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.]

PARTPAGE
Captain1[3-6]
Executive Officer1[6], [7]
Officers in charge of divisions1[8], [9]
Master1[9]
Chief Engineer1[9]
Gunner1[9-12]
Carpenter1[12]
Yeoman1[13]
General distribution of officers and men at quarters1[14-20]
Distribution and arms of men at the guns1[21-25]
Duties at quarters in battle or exercise1[26-40]
Equipments and Implements1[33-35]
Broadside guns, stations and gun-numbers1[35]
Calls for assembling at quarters1[36], [37]
Preparations for exercise at general quarters1[38-40]
Arrangements for delivering and distributing powder1[41-45]
Naval gun-carriages1[45]
Exercise of broadside-guns1[46-60]
Exercise of pivot-guns1[61-73]
Notes upon the manual exercise1[74-88]
The use of fuzes1[89-91]
Boarders1[92], [93]
General precautions to be observed in time of war1[94-96]
Directions in case of fire1[97-100]
Rifled Cannon1[101-107]
Monitors1[108-112]
Mortars1[113-127]
Miscellaneous Operations1[128-131]
Equipment of boats2[3-9]
Fixtures in boats for boat-guns2[6-9]
Exercise and Manœuvre for boat-howitzers2[10-18]
Exercise with howitzer on field-carriage2[19], [20]
Remarks on the use of Naval Light Artillery2[21], [22]
Notes on the use of boat-howitzers2[22-24]
Manœuvres of boats armed for service2[24]
Landing seamen, marines, and howitzers2[25-27]
Ordnance and Ordnance Stores3[3-80]
Inspection and Proof of Naval guns3[8-17]
Use of the Inspecting Instruments3[18-21]
Powder-Proof3[22]
Water-Proof3[23]
Marking guns3[23]
Extreme proof of trial guns3[24-26]
Preparation of guns for service3[27-29]
Preservation of guns3[30-32]
Examination of guns3[33-35]
Inspection of shot and shells3[36-38]
Shot and shell gauges3[39], [40]
Piling of balls3[41], [42]
Preservation of shot and empty shells3[43]
Preparation of shell for service3[44-47]
Gunpowder3[48-55]
Preservation and storage of powder3[48-53]
Service-charges for naval guns3[53], [54]
Boxes for small-arm ammunition3[55], [56]
Cannon and Friction primers3[56], [57]
Cartridge-bags3[57-59]
Magazines and shell rooms3[60-64]
Gun-carriages3[65], [66]
Gun-gear3[66], [67]
Griolet3[68]
Directions for cleaning arms3[80-82]
Paints and Lacquers3[83-89]
APPENDIX.
Directions as to using the allowance tables of crewsA[iii-v]
Table I. Showing the number of hands for various kinds of gunsA[vi]
Table II. Allowance of Petty Officers for various kinds of vesselsA[vii], [viii]
Table III. Allowance of Officers, whenA[ix]
Table IV. Allowance of Marines, whenA[x]
Graduation of sights and ranges, of 32 pds.: of 27 or 33 cwt.: No. 1B[xi]
Graduation of sights and ranges, 32 pds.: of 42 or 57 cwt.: No. 2B[xii]
Graduation of sights and ranges, 8 in.: of 55 or 63 cwt.: No. 3B[xiii]
Graduation of sights and ranges, 9 and 11 in. shell guns, No. 4B[xiv]
Approximate ranges of Shell guns No. 5B[xv]
Approximate ranges of Shot guns and howitzers No. 6B[xvi]
Approximate ranges of Rifle guns No. 7B[xvii]
Table for finding the distance of an object at sea No. 8B[xviii]
Form of Report of Target Practice with great guns No. 9.B[xx, xxi]
Form of Report of Target Practice with small arms No. 9.B[xxii]
Directions as to preparing Reports of Target Practice No. 10B[xxiii]
Form of Reports of Inspection No. 1C[xxiv-xxvi]
Questions to be embraced in Reports of Target Practice No. 2C[xxvii]
Tables of Allowances of Ordnance Equipments and StoresD[xxviii-li]