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CHAPTER VII (D) and (E).

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APPENDIX (D).

Details of Rigging Nets and Floats.

The floats will be launched off the camber wall, placed in line, the 34-inch jackstay rove, and set up by men working on the floats.

One 40-fathom length of 3-inch wire will be shackled at the end of each unit for placing.

As a unit is ready it will be hauled to position in which the nets are to be placed. Naval Dock and Naval Camber-North wall of western portion of yard. Units towed to position by a launch from the department of the Commander (N).

Hongham Dock-North wall of Naval Camber. Unit towed to position by

"Cherub."

Quarry Bay Dock.-Nets are at Quarry Bay. Unit towed to position by launch from the department of the Commander (N).

While the floats are being launched the nets will be hauled into position by the capstans, opened out, and lowered into position at water's edge by special hook ropes.

As the units arrive the head of the nets will be laced on, men working on the floats or stages.

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APPENDIX (E).

Orders Governing the Moving of Net Defence.

Orders to be given to the Officer or N.C.O. in charge of Military Guard at Hongham and Quarry Bay Docks.

You will be in charge of net defence and will not allow it to be removed from entrance of dock without written order from the Commodore, and will see it is replaced as soon as work for which permission has been given has been performed.

Orders for Managers of Dock Companies.

On all occasions of requiring to dock or undock ships after boom defence is placed you must apply to the Commodore for written permission, which must be presented to Military Guard, who has orders to see that net defence is replaced as soon as possible after completion of work.

(E.)—Duties of and Action by the Commander of H.M.S. "Tamar."

(1.) General Instructions.

1. You are to keep these Secret Standing War Orders under lock and key. They are to be handed over to your successor, and a certificate to this effect is to be forwarded to the Naval Secretary to the Commodore.

2. You are to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the whole scheme for the Naval Defence of Hong Kong.

3. On account of the time that must be expended in placing "Tamar" in Dock- yard Camber, dispatching crews for signal stations to their posts, and getting these ratings accustomed to their new duties, it has been considered inadvisable to make any distinction in the action to be taken at the precautionary and war stages respectively, but instead, upon receipt of the former warning, at once to proceed to such action as would be made necessary by the latter.

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4. Upon receipt of the warning telegram you will work with Commander (N) and take the Tamar" without delay into the Dockyard Camber, Hong Kong, and the dockyard steam launches Nos. 33, 34, and 53, if the squadron be absent, will be turned over for use by H.M.S. "Tamar."

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