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 Manœuvre 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] |
| Manœuvres 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 of trial guns | 3 | [24-26] |
| Preparation of guns for service | 3 | [27-29] |
| Preservation of guns | 3 | [30-32] |
| Examination of guns | 3 | [33-35] |
| Inspection of shot and shells | 3 | [36-38] |
| Shot and shell gauges | 3 | [39], [40] |
| Piling of balls | 3 | [41], [42] |
| Preservation of shot and empty shells | 3 | [43] |
| Preparation of shell for service | 3 | [44-47] |
| Gunpowder | 3 | [48-55] |
| Preservation and storage of powder | 3 | [48-53] |
| Service-charges for naval guns | 3 | [53], [54] |
| Boxes for small-arm ammunition | 3 | [55], [56] |
| Cannon and Friction primers | 3 | [56], [57] |
| Cartridge-bags | 3 | [57-59] |
| Magazines and shell rooms | 3 | [60-64] |
| Gun-carriages | 3 | [65], [66] |
| Gun-gear | 3 | [66], [67] |
| Griolet | 3 | [68] |
| Directions for cleaning arms | 3 | [80-82] |
| Paints and Lacquers | 3 | [83-89] |
| APPENDIX. | ||
| Directions as to using the allowance tables of crews | A | [iii-v] |
| Table I. Showing the number of hands for various kinds of guns | A | [vi] |
| Table II. Allowance of Petty Officers for various kinds of vessels | A | [vii], [viii] |
| Table III. Allowance of Officers, when | A | [ix] |
| Table IV. Allowance of Marines, when | A | [x] |
| Graduation of sights and ranges, of 32 pds.: of 27 or 33 cwt.: No. 1 | B | [xi] |
| Graduation of sights and ranges, 32 pds.: of 42 or 57 cwt.: No. 2 | B | [xii] |
| Graduation of sights and ranges, 8 in.: of 55 or 63 cwt.: No. 3 | B | [xiii] |
| Graduation of sights and ranges, 9 and 11 in. shell guns, No. 4 | B | [xiv] |
| Approximate ranges of Shell guns No. 5 | B | [xv] |
| Approximate ranges of Shot guns and howitzers No. 6 | B | [xvi] |
| Approximate ranges of Rifle guns No. 7 | B | [xvii] |
| Table for finding the distance of an object at sea No. 8 | B | [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. 10 | B | [xxiii] |
| Form of Reports of Inspection No. 1 | C | [xxiv-xxvi] |
| Questions to be embraced in Reports of Target Practice No. 2 | C | [xxvii] |
| Tables of Allowances of Ordnance Equipments and Stores | D | [xxviii-li] |