NOTES.

In rowing the blade of the oar should be raised as high as the gunwale after leaving the water and feathered by dropping the wrist. A barely perceptible pause should be made, and the oar next thrown well forward and dropped edgewise into the water, taking care to avoid splashing and chopping. Now swing the oar smartly through the water without giving it any final jerk, and repeat as above. With green crews it may be found necessary for the coxswain to call stroke, stroke, in order to get the men to pull exactly together.

There should be a mark on the loom of the oar (about the height of the eyes when the oar is at toss) to show when the blade is fore-and-aft, thus avoiding the necessity of the men gazing up for the purpose of finding out when this is the case. Never allow a boat’s crew to splash with the blades when executing Let fall. When resting on oars, insist that they be kept level with the gunwale and at right angles to the keel. Talking among the crew and turning the heads to look at any object should never be allowed while the boat is under way. In most cases, boats should be permanently equipped with a small breaker of fresh water, a spare oar and oarlock and a suitable anchor or grapnel. The anchor rope to withstand a storm should be six (6) times as long as the greatest depth liable to be used as an anchorage. For any small boat in our service a 20-pound anchor and 12-thread (about 1 inch) manila hawser should easily weather a hurricane. A boat should never go out at night without a good, well-filled lantern. Many a boat has been run down through its inability to make its presence known. Before leaving the shore in foggy weather, provide the boat with some sort of a foghorn and a compass, and calculate as nearly as possible the bearings of the landing you wish to make. Take the opposite of this upon returning, making due allowance for tide and wind in both cases. To ride out a gale of wind in an open boat, lash the oars and grating together, making them into a bulky bundle and weight them if possible; span them with the painter and pitch them overboard. This will keep the boat’s head to the sea and prevent her from drifting fast. Assist the boat to take the seas head-on by means of a steering oar. In rowing through a chop, where the rudder is apt to be pitched clear of the water, it should be unshipped and a steering oar used instead. Remember, in making a landing, that the heavier the boat is laden the longer she will keep her way. If you are being towed by a steamer, make her give you a line, instead of using your own, and belay it so it can be cast off in a hurry. Carefully avoid weighing down the bow; always use a short towline when the boat is empty and a long towline when the boat is laden. If the boat’s painter is used for a towline, have a knife ready for cutting it if it becomes necessary. Never go close under a steamer’s stern unless it is absolutely unavoidable.

Officers in boarding a ship, use the starboard gangway, although they may use the port gangway. Enlisted men use the port gangway or the booms, unless otherwise ordered.

Boat salutes.—The following salutes should be exchanged between boats meeting or passing each other. No junior should pass ahead of a senior without permission.

The junior should always salute first, and the senior should return the salute by touching his cap.

Salutes should be exchanged whenever boats pass near enough to each other for the senior officer to be recognized, whether he be in uniform or not.

Officers without a flag or pennant flying should be saluted with the hand only; those with a flag or pennant flying should, in addition, be saluted by laying on oars.

When a noncommissioned officer is in a boat and meets another boat containing an officer he stands and salutes. If the boat flies a flag or pennant, the noncommissioned officer, in addition, lays on oars.

Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps and foreign officers in boats should always be saluted when recognized.

In laden boats, towing boats, or boats under sail the hand salute only is made on all occasions.

Coxswains in charge of boats shall always rise and salute when officers enter or leave their boats.

Boat keepers shall stand up and salute officers passing in boats and remain standing until the boat has come alongside or passed.

APPENDIX NO. 8.
SUPPLY LIST.

APPARATUS.
Ammeters, portable, 0-25 scale, 1 to each post.
Anchors, buoy, 500 pounds, 5 to each group of 19 mines.
Anchors, mine, 1 to each buoyant mine.
Axle, cable-reel, 1 to each cable-reel frame.
Balances and weights, 1 set to each post.
Battery, storage, 1 to each casemate.
Boards, operating, 1 to each group of 19 mines.
Boxes, distribution, 1 to each group of 19 mines.
Boxes, distribution, 1 to each group of 7 mines.
Boxes, junction, large, 3 to each mile of multiple cable.
Boxes, junction, small, 1 to each mile of single-conductor cable.
Buoy, distribution box, 1 to each distribution box.
Buoy, marking, 5 to each group of 19 mines.
Buoy, mine, 1 to each buoyant mine.
Cable, submarine, 19-conductor, according to project.
Cable, submarine, 7-conductor, according to project.
Cable, submarine, 1 conductor, according to project.
Cases, guncotton, as required.
Circuit closer, 1 to each mine transformer.
Clips, cable, 2 for each mine.
Engine, internal combustion, 1 to each casemate.
Frame, cable-reel, 3 to each post.
Fuse can, 1 to each compound plug.
Generator, casemate, 1 to each casemate.
Mine cases, according to project.
Motor generator, D. C.-A. C., 2 to each casemate.
Panels, power, 1 to each casemate.
Planting equipment for emergency vessels, 1 to each vessel:
Each planting equipment consists of—
1 axle, cable-reel.
4 blocks, snatch.
4 blocks, triplex, 2-ton.
2 come-alongs.
2 davits, anchor.
2 davits, mine.
1 frame, cable-reel.
4 hooks, trip.
Plugs, compound, 1 to each mine case.
Reels, cable, according to cable on hand.
Reel and frame, measuring, 1 to each mine field.
Shackles, anchor, 2 to each anchor.
Shackles, mine, 2 to each mine.
Sister hooks, 1 pair to each anchor.
Sockets, mooring, 2 to each buoyant mine, for wire rope only.
Springs, automatic anchor, 6 extra for each group of 19 mines.
Switches, starting, 1 to each motor generator, D. C.-A. C.
Telephones, boat, 4 to each mine field.
Testing set, insulation, 1 to each post having a cable tank:
Each testing set consists of—
1 box, resistance, 100,000 ohms.
2 cases for instruments.
1 galvanometer, D’Arsonval, reflecting.
1 key, special insulation testing.
1 repair kit.
1 shunt, Ayrton Universal.
Transformer, casemate, 2 to each casemate.
Transformer, mine, 1 to each mine.
Voltmeter, portable, 0-3-volt scale, 1 to each storage battery.
Voltmeter, portable, 0-150-volt scale, 2 to each post.
Weights, distance, for automatic anchor, 6 extra for each
group of 19 mines.

UTENSILS.
(Supply for each post, unless otherwise indicated.)
1 anvil, 50-pound.
3 axes, handled.
6 basins, wash.
24 binding posts (to each casemate).
2 blocks, tackle, double.
2 blocks, tackle, single.
6 boxes, tool.
6 brushes, battery.
6 brushes, dust.
6 brushes, paint, flat.
6 brushes, paint, oval.
12 brushes, sash.
12 brushes, scratch.
6 buckets, galvanized iron.
1 chest, carpenter’s tool:
The chest contains the following tools—
1 bits, set, of 13.
1 bit, expansive,
1 brace, ratchet.
1 chisels, carpenter’s, set of 6.
1 hammer, claw.
1 knife, drawing.
1 level, carpenter’s.
1 oilstone.
1 plane, jack.
1 plane, smooth.
1 rule, 2-foot.
1 saw, compass.
1 saw, hand.
1 saw, rip.
1 saw set.
1 square, carpenter’s.
6 chisels, cold.
4 clips, wire rope (for each buoyant mine).
4 coppers, soldering.
3 crowbars.
6 cups, drinking.
2 cutters, cable.
1 dies, letters, set.
1 dies, numbers, set.
1 drill, breast.
1 drill points, set of 15.
6 files, 6-inch, flat bastard.
3 files, 6-inch, slim taper.
6 funnels, loading, large.
6 funnels, loading, small.
1 gloves, rubber, pair (to each storage battery).
1 grindstone.
24 hacksaw blades.
4 hacksaw frames.
6 hammers, ball peen.
6 hammers, smith’s.
2 handles, with tools.
3 hatchets.
6 hooks, boat.
2 hydrometers, battery (to each storage battery).
3 irons, calking.
4 irons, grappling.
120 knives, submarine mine (for each mine company,
to be issued as part of equipment).
3 ladles.
6 lamps, alcohol.
2 lamps, battery inspection (to each storage battery).
3 lamps, Khotal.
5 leads, sounding.
12 levers for socket wrenches.
12 life buoys.
12 life preservers.
2 mallets, large.
2 mallets, small.
12 marlinespikes.
6 megaphones.
1 oilers and tray, set (to each casemate).
12 padlocks, brass, with chain.
2 pitchers, acid (to each storage battery).
2 plates, earth.
70 pliers, side cutting, 5½ inch
(for each mine company, to be issued as part of equipment).
50 pliers, side cutting, 8-inch
(for each mine company, to be issued as part of equipment).
3 pots, melting.
4 pumps, boat (to each mine field).
2 scales, extension spring, reading 200 pounds.
1 scales, portable platform.
6 scissors, 8-inch.
6 scoops, large, for trotol only.
6 scoops, small, for trotol only.
12 scrapers, iron, with handle.
4 screw-drivers, large.
4 screw-drivers, medium.
4 screw-drivers, small.
6 switches, assorted (to each casemate).
2 syringes, battery (to each storage battery).
3 tapes, measuring.
2 thermometers, battery (to each storage battery).
2 thermometers, cable tank.
2 thimbles, galvanized iron (to each buoyant mine case).
2 tongs, cable-reel.
6 torches, gasoline, hand.
2 trucks, mine case.
6 vises, bench, large.
6 wrenches, monkey, 8-inch.
6 wrenches, monkey, 15-inch.
12 wrenches, S.
6 wrenches, socket.
6 wrenches, spanner.
3 wrenches, Stillson.
6 wrenches, T, small.

EXPENDABLE STORES.
Alcohol, wood, 5 gallons to each post.
Antimony for socket alloy, 10 pounds to each 19 mines.
Books, record of cable test, 1 to each post.
Books, daily test, 2 to each post.
Books, note, 24 to each post.
Brushes, carbon, 4 extra for each machine requiring them.
Brushes, wire, 4 extra for each machine requiring them.
Cells, dry, large, 25 to each post.
Cells, dry, small, 100 to each post.
Cement, rubber, 3 pounds to each 19 mines.
Cleats, porcelain, 1-wire, 50 to each casemate.
Cleats, porcelain, 2-wire, 50 to each casemate.
Collars, Turk’s-head, large, 10 to each mile of 7-conductor cable.
Collars, Turk’s-head, medium, 10 to each mile of 19-conductor cable.
Collars, Turk’s-head, small, 5 to each mine.
Compound, commutator, 1 stick to each casemate.
Connectors, double, 25 to each casemate.
Cords, telephone, 4 extra.
Crayons, marking, 12 to each storehouse.
Cut-outs, porcelain, 2 to each casemate.
Drier, as required.
Electrolyte, specific gravity 1210, 4 carboys to each casemate.
Explosive, according to project.
Fuses, service, 4 to each mine.
Gasoline, for torches, 10 gallons to each post.
Glands for compound plugs, 2 extra for each plug.
Glue, 5 pounds to each post.
Graphite, as required.
Handles, assorted, as required for repairing tools.
Insulators, glass, 25 to each storehouse.
Jointers, copper, 1 pound to each 19 mines.
Keys, distribution box, flat, 4 extra to each box.
Keys, distribution box, split, 4 extra to each box.
Keys, mine case, 2 extra for each mine case.
Keys, shackle, 1 extra to each shackle.
Knobs, porcelain, 100 to each post.
Lampblack, 2 pounds to each 100 pounds of white lead.
Lamps, incandescent, white, 110 volts, 16-candlepower,
12 to each casemate.
Lamps, incandescent, white, 80 volts, 16-candlepower,
12 to each casemate.
Lamps, incandescent, red, 80 volts, 8-candlepower,
3 to each operating board.
Lamps, incandescent, green, 45 volts, 8-candlepower,
3 to each operating board.
Lamps, incandescent, green, 45 volts, 16-candlepower,
3 to each operating board.
Lamps, incandescent, green, 45 volts, 32-candlepower,
3 to each operatingboard.
Lead, for socket alloy, 90 pounds for each 19 mines.
Lead, red, as required.
Lead, white, as required.
Line, cod, 2,000 feet to each post.
Line, measuring, 2,000 feet to each post.
Line, sounding, 500 feet to each post.
Lye, as required.
Marline, 1 pound to each mine.
Nails, assorted sizes, 25 pounds to each post.
Needles, cleaning, for Khotal lamps, 6 to each post.
Nipples, soft rubber, 1 to each hard rubber fuse can.
Oakum, 50 pounds to each post.
Oil, cylinder, 5 gallons to each casemate.
Oil, dynamo, 1 gallon to each casemate.
Oil, lubricating, 1 gallon to each storehouse.
Oil, linseed, as required, 3 gallons to 100 pounds of lead.
Oil, slushing, 5 gallons to each post.
Oil, tar, as required for marline-covered rope.
Oil, transformer, 1 gallon to each casemate transformer.
Packing, asbestos sheet, 2 pounds to each casemate.
Packing, asbestos wick, 1 pound to each casemate.
Packings, rubber, 100 to each 19 mines.
Paint, acid-resisting, as required.
Paint, steel color, for casemate apparatus, as required.
Paste, soldering, 1 pound to each post.
Paraffin, 10 pounds to each post.
Pencils, lead, 6 dozen to each post.
Plugs, attachment, 6 to each post.
Pomade, Putz, 3 pounds to each post.
Primers, explosive, 1 to each mine charge.
Pumice stone, 2 pounds to each casemate.
Resin, 2 pounds to each post.
Rope, for distance weight, 20 feet for each automatic anchor.
Rope for heaving lines, 1,200 feet to each post.
Rope for lashings, 1,200 feet to each post.
Rope, marline-covered, according to project.
Rope, raising, 50 per cent more than of mooring rope.
Rope, wire mooring, according to project.
Rosettes, 24 to each post.
Ruberine, 5 gallons to each post.
Sandpaper, 48 sheets to each post.
Sapolio, 10 cakes to each post.
Screws, brass, assorted sizes, 1 gross when required.
Screws, iron, assorted sizes, 1 gross when required.
Screws, set, for compound plugs, 1 extra set for each compound plug.
Screws, set, for mine transformers, 1 extra set
for each mine transformer.
Shellac for insulation purposes, 5 pounds to each post.
Soap, 25 cakes to each post.
Sockets, lamp, 12 to each casemate.
Solder, wire, 5 pounds to each post.
Staples, large, 20 pounds to each post.
Staples, small, 1 pound to each post.
Suspensions, galvanometer, lower, 3 to each insulation testing set.
Suspensions, galvanometer, upper, 6 to each insulation testing set.
Tags, brass, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tags, lead, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tags, linen, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tape, protective, 5 pounds to each 19 mines.
Tape, rubber, 5 pounds to each 19 mines.
Tinfoil, 1 pound to each 19 mines.
Towelling, 10 yards to each post.
Tubes, porcelain, 12 to each post.
Turpentine, as required.
Twine, 3 pounds to each 19 mines.
Varnish, asphaltum, as required.
Varnish, spar, as required.
Washers, brass, 100 to each 19 mines.
Washers, lead, 1 extra set for each compound plug.
Waste, cotton, 50 pounds to each post.
Wire, casemate, extra, 100 feet each of black, blue, red, and brown
to each casemate.
Wire, fuse, 1 pound each of 3, 12, and 25 ampere to each casemate.
Wire, lamp-cord, extra 100 feet to each casemate.
Wire, loading, 20 feet to each mine.
Wire, soft-drawn copper.

Remarks:

(a) Clips and thimbles, scales, extension spring, marline-covered rope, and parts for automatic anchors are required only at posts supplied with automatic anchors.

(b) Loading scoops are required only at posts supplied with trotol.

(c) In the case of articles to be supplied “as required” it is not contemplated that they shall be kept on hand in larger quantities than required for immediate needs.

FIG. 17a.—IMPROVISED MINE TARGET.

FIG. 17b.—IMPROVISED MINE TARGET.

Transcriber’s Notes:

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate.

Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.

The text has numerous references to “figure 18”, the schematic diagram for the “Operating Board”, however this figure appears to be not available.

NOTES.

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APPENDIX NO. 8.
SUPPLY LIST.