Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. - 1866. Fourth edition.

United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy., by Bureau of Ordnance, USN This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. Author: Bureau of Ordnance, USN Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19058] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ORDNANCE INSTRUCTIONS *** Produced by Jeannie Howse, Curtis Weyant and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The University of Michigan Making of America collection) Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent spelling is maintained in this document. ORDNANCE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES NAVY. 1866. PART I. RELATING TO THE PREPARATION OF VESSELS OF WAR FOR BATTLE, AND TO THE DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND OTHERS WHEN AT QUARTERS. PART II. THE EQUIPMENT AND MANŒUVRE OF BOATS AND EXERCISE OF BOAT HOWITZERS. 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 Executive Officer Officers in charge of divisions Master Chief Engineer Gunner Carpenter Yeoman General distribution of officers and men at quarters Distribution and arms of men at the guns Duties at quarters in battle or exercise Equipments and Implements Broadside guns, stations and gun-numbers Calls for assembling at quarters Preparations for exercise at general quarters Arrangements for delivering and distributing powder Naval gun-carriages Exercise of broadside-guns Exercise of pivot-guns Notes upon the manual exercise The use of fuzes 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3-6 6, 7 8, 9 9 9 9-12 12 13 14-20 21-25 26-40 33-35 35 36, 37 38-40 41-45 45 46-60 61-73 74-88 89-91 92, Boarders General precautions to be observed in time of war Directions in case of fire Rifled Cannon Monitors Mortars Miscellaneous Operations Equipment of boats Fixtures in boats for boat-guns Exercise and Manœuvre for boat-howitzers Exercise with howitzer on field-carriage Remarks on the use of Naval Light Artillery Notes on the use of boat-howitzers Manœuvres of boats armed for service Landing seamen, marines, and howitzers Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Inspection and Proof of Naval guns Use of the Inspecting Instruments Powder-Proof Water-Proof Marking guns Extreme proof of trial guns Preparation of guns for service Preservation of guns Examination of guns Inspection of shot and shells Shot and shell gauges Piling of balls Preservation of shot and empty shells Preparation of shell for service Gunpowder Preservation and storage of powder Service-charges for naval guns Boxes for small-arm ammunition Cannon and Friction primers Cartridge-bags Magazines and shell rooms Gun-carriages Gun-gear Griolet Directions for cleaning arms Paints and Lacquers APPENDIX. Directions as to using the allowance tables of crews Table I. Showing the number of hands for various kinds of guns Table II. Allowance of Petty Officers for various kinds of vessels Table III. Allowance of Officers, when Table IV. Allowance of Marines, when Graduation of sights and ranges, of 32 pds.: of 27 or 33 cwt.: No. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 92, 93 94-96 97100 101107 108112 113127 128131 3-9 6-9 10-18 19, 20 21, 22 22-24 24 25-27 3-80 8-17 18-21 22 23 23 24-26 27-29 30-32 33-35 36-38 39, 40 41, 42 43 44-47 48-55 48-53 53, 54 55, 56 56, 57 57-59 60-64 65, 66 66, 67 68 80-82 83-89 A A A A A B iii-v vi vii, viii ix x xi Graduation of sights and ranges, 32 pds.: of 42 or 57 cwt.: No. 2 Graduation of sights and ranges, 8 in.: of 55 or 63 cwt.: No. 3 Graduation of sights and ranges, 9 and 11 in. shell guns, No. 4 Approximate ranges of Shell guns No. 5 Approximate ranges of Shot guns and howitzers No. 6 Approximate ranges of Rifle guns No. 7 Table for finding the distance of an object at sea No. 8 Form of Report of Target Practice with great guns No. 9. Form of Report of Target Practice with small arms No. 9. Directions as to preparing Reports of Target Practice No. 10 Form of Reports of Inspection No. 1 Questions to be embraced in Reports of Target Practice No. 2 Tables of Allowances of Ordnance Equipments and Stores B B B B B B B B B B C C D xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii xviii xx, xxi xxii xxiii xxivxxvi xxvii xxviiili PART I. RELATING TO THE PREPARATION OF VESSELS OF WAR FOR BATTLE. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE, NAVY DEPARTMENT. January 1st, 1866. SIR:— } } The 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 necessary, they are approved by the Bureau, and I have the honor to submit them for the adoption of the Navy Department. I am, Sir, with high respect, Your obedient servant, H. A. WISE, U.S.N., Chief of Bureau. NAVY DEPARTMENT , WASHINGTON, January 1st, 1866. SIR:— } } The revised Ordnance Instructions for the Navy, submitted with your letter of this date, are hereby approved and adopted by the Department, and all officers of the Navy will strictly observe and enforce them. Very respectfully, GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. Commander H. A. WISE, U.S.N. Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. [3] CHAPTER I. GENERAL DUTIES OF OFFICERS IN RELATION TO ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY, AND TO MILITARY EQUIPMENTS AND EXERCISES. CAPTAIN. 1. 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 particular duties are assigned, and various instructions given to the other officers of the vessel, yet he is to see that the duties are performed, and the instructions obeyed, by the officers to whom they are respectively addressed. 2. As soon as the crew is received on board the vessel, he shall cause a fire-bill to be prepared, the crew shown their stations, and see that they are duly stationed at quarters for battle (See Articles 78 to 103), and exercised at general quarters, and by divisions, particularly the powder division