Tourniquets.
Bandages.
Lint.
Medicines.
Surgical instruments.
BOAT-GEAR.
Masts.
Spars.
Rigging.
A set of oars, fitted with trailing-lines long enough to allow them to trail alongside in the water.
Three boat-hooks.
Spare oars, with trailing-lines, for one thwart.
Cranes on the gunwale to hold spars and spare oars, raised sufficiently high above the gunwale (9 inches) to allow the oars to be got out or trailed. The spars thus arranged form a considerable protection against musketry.
Small thrum-mats for muffling oars when required.
Anchor.
Chain or rope.
Hand-grapnels, fitted with a fathom of light chain, and five fathoms of line.
Sails.
Awning and stanchions.
Tent awning. (See Drawing.)
N.B.—In order to avoid delay and confusion when boats are called away for service, it is recommended that the articles required by the foregoing lists should be kept separately in the store-rooms, in convenient packages for stowage in the boats and protection against the weather. The contents of each package must be marked on it, together with the name of the boat for which it is intended. Particular attention should be paid by the Executive Officer of the vessel to the best and most compact stowage of all articles required for boat expeditions, which will, necessarily, vary according to the size of the boat and the nature of the service she is to perform. The occasions will be very rare when all of these articles are required at the same time.
FORM OF EXERCISE AND MANŒUVRE
FOR THE BOAT-HOWITZERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
NOMENCLATURE.
19. The Cascabel is the part of the gun in the rear of the base-ring; and is composed of—