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16. The wires are marked with bands of paint as follows:-
White band, 3 inches wide..
Red band, 3 inches wides
Green band, 3 inches wide
Green band, 3 inches wide..
Two white bands, 3 inches wide, 2 inches apart
Green band, 8 inches wide ..
Green band, 3 inches wide
Blue band, 3 inches wide
Green band, 3 inches wide,
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Fathoms.
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7
8
9
10
11
A
12
13
14
White band, 3 inches wide.
Two red bands, 3 inches wide, 2 inches apart
..
Wire seizing, 9 inches broad
Green band, 6 inches wide
White band, 6 inches wide..
Two green bands, 6 inches wide, 3 inches apart
NOM BEE
15
17
20
251
50
75
One red band, 6 inches wide
100
Green baud, 6 inches wide
125
White band, 6 inches wide..
Two red bands, 6 inches wide, 3 inches apart
Green band, 6 inches wide ..
White band, 6 inches wide..
Two green bands, 6 inches wide, 3 inches apart
150
B
Two green bands, 6 inches wide, 3 inches apart
175
200
225
250
275
Three bands, 6 inches wide, 3 inches apart, and so on
300
A green band at every 25 fathoms, a white band at every 50 fathoms, and two green bands at every 75 fathoms, red bands at the 100 fathom marks of a number equivalent to the number of hundreds.
17. Signalling can be reduced to a minimum after practice. The code of signals for mine-sweeping craft is attached. The majority of orders should be passed by whistle or megaphone when sweeping with small craft.
Flag.
7 Pendant
Preparative tack line
7 pendant
D
I
ASHOKHOLORN
V
MINE SWEEPING SIGNAL CODE.
Single Flag Table (to be used at the yard-arm).
Signification.
Has been selected as the distinguishing pendant for mine-sweeping craft, and is always to be hoisted at the mast-head when using this code. This alteration in the meaning has been embodied in the Signal Book,
Take up station for sweeping.
You are inside your distance.
You are outside your distance.
Increase speed of engines; if stopped, "proceed."
Decrease speed of engines.
Slip sweep wire.
Stop engines.
Sweep.
Sweep parted.
Sweep foul of bottom.
Ready for sweeping; to be hoisted when ready to reeve the sweep. Mine in sweep
(Gun to be fired at the same time and S flag to be kept flying in a conspicuous position till the mine has been slipped.) Veer sweep wire.
Blue burgee Act independently while hauling in sweep.
NOTE.-All alterations of course to be signalled in the usual manner, i.e., by compass pendant or blue
pendant.
Speed signals are only necessary to indicate the standard speed of the sweeping conditions; all other alterations of speed, such as for reeving the sweep, &c., will be known by the alterations in the cones and revolutions flags. The executive for all signals with the exception of V and S flags, which are obeyed as soon as seen, is when the signal is hauled down.
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