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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 p...
4. Chapter 4The Ordnance Instructions for the Navy having been again carefully revised, and such additions and corrections made as the new armaments of vessels of the Navy rendered necessar...
5. Chapter 51. THE CAPTAIN OR COMMANDING OFFICER will be careful to require that all the Ordnance Instructions are strictly enforced on board the vessel under his command; and although part...
6. Chapter 610. The allowances for target-practice are not to be expended in one or two exercises, but are to be divided in such proportions as to allow target-practice once a fortnight, or...
7. Chapter 718. He is not to dismount, strike below, or otherwise render unfit for immediate use, any of the guns on board the ship he commands, except imperative necessity should require i...
8. Chapter 864. The following directions for the general distribution of a ship's company at quarters, or for action, are intended to secure, upon the most important points, a degree of uni...
9. Chapter 9104. The CAPTAIN, when at general quarters, either for exercise or in action, is to superintend and take the general direction of every thing connected with the management of th...
10. Chapter 10It is customary to keep the guns of the Battery loaded at sea; it has been found that the fire of a ship could be commenced in three minutes from the beat of drum, the guns bein...
11. Chapter 11+-------+--------------------+---------+---------+ DENOMINATION. |WEIGHT.| CHARGE. | WEIGHT | WEIGHT | | | | OF | OF | | | | SHELL. | SHOT. | -------------------------+-------+-...
12. Chapter 12A. Ammunition-scuttle. B. Starting-bar for revolving turret and training gun. C. Shaft on which turret revolves. D. Travelling-bar on which moves the shell-whip. E. Position of...
13. Chapter 13No. 1. First Captain. No. 2. Second Captain. No. 3. First Loader and Trainer. No. 4. First Sponger and Trainer. No. 5. Second Loader, Front Eccentric Trainer. No. 6. Second Spon...
14. Chapter 14504. After bracing the yard over the port through which it is intended to take the guns, secure the lizard round the yard five or six feet outside of the ship, and hook the top...
15. Chapter 151. Boats must be provided according to the time of absence and nature of the service they are to perform, keeping in view the details prescribed in Table (Article 5).
16. Chapter 161. All articles of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, when duly delivered at any Navy Yard, are to be borne on the books of the Inspector of Ordnance, and duly accounted for, accordi...
17. Chapter 17188. No details of internal arrangement should be more carefully considered and executed than those relating to the stowage and delivery of powder, since a defect in these parti...
18. Chapter 18The Inspector of Ordnance will keep approved copies of all plans, and, in order to insure uniformity, will report to the Bureau any deviations from the standard drawings which h...