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STORES required for each Examination Battery.
Woolwich Section.
Paragraph
of List of Changes.
Description of Stores.
18
27
8060
28
10334
5123
29
10677
Supplied by Army Ser-
vice Corps To be provided locally.
Detail.
Number required,
Cordage, white, signal halyard,
14 in., fathoms
Horns, fog, bellows pattern
Flags, pendant, military
Binoculars, night
Cases..
Lantern, flashing, signal Semaphores
Stands, telescope, signalling Telescope, signalling Megaphones
12
1
17 ft. by 3 ft. 6 in., 4 in. fly Without leather case Leather
1
2 tripods, 1 ft. 7 in. long per stand . With 2 caps and sling
Tin body, zine bell mouth with slot, japanned, 30 in, long, with handle
1
1
Oil and wick for lamps
Flagstaff with truck
:
1
SIGNAL Gun and Stores, 7-pr. R.M.L.
1 Ordinary R.M.L. 7-pr., 200 lb., with
fittings special.
1 Carriage, special.
1 Brush, piasaba.
1 Cover, vent.
1 Case, cartridge, No. 6.
2 Caps, sponge, No. 3.
2 Lanyards.
1 Pricker, vent.
1 Pockets, tube and strap.
2 Sponges.
1 Tampeon.
1 Vent server.
1 Worms' wad hook, No. 4.
100 Cartridges. filled, R.M.L. 7-pr., saluting. 100 Tubes, friction.
4 Cases, powder, M.L., quarter.
1
19
"
keys.
5. The Harbour Master will provide for the examination steamers the following personnel, which includes a regular system of reliefs :—
1 Senior Examining Officer.
10 examining officers.
12 engineers.
12 firemen.
12 coxswains.
24 sailors.
18 signallers (found by R.G.A., and dis- tributed to the examination steamers marked with a * in paragraph 3).
The Senior Examining Officer will represent the Chief Examining Officer afloat, and will be on board the sixth launch, to which reference is made in paragraph 3. The examining officers† will be selected for their intimate knowledge of the shipping usually frequenting the port.
All pilots will be placed by the Governor under the orders of the Chief Examining Officer, who will retain under his immediate directions as many of them as may from time to time be necessary to carry out these regulations.
6. The examination anchorages, where vessels are to be brought to for examination, are outside the examination lines, and are shown on the chart or map accompanying the Defence Scheme. They may be described as follows :—
Western or Cheung-Hue Anchorage-
Eastern limit
•
Western limit`..
Southern limit..
a.
A line drawn from south-east end of Cheung-Hue
to western side of Green Island.
A south line drawn from south-west side of
Cheung-Hue.
A west line drawn from south limit of Stonecutters
Island, intersecting eastern and western limits.
A register of the names of the men whom it is proposed to employ as examination officers is kept. This register was last revised on
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