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CHAPTER VII (K) and (L).
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List of Stores required for Marking Channel and Mine Sweeping.
Description.
No.
How Provided.
Where kept.
Sweeping sets complete
sets
8
Rifles
12
Dockyard N.O.Ď.
Mining room. N.O.D.
Ammunition
rounds
1,200
"
Megaphones
7
N.S.O.
Lecture room.
Boat's bags
7
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Boatswain's bags
7
Carpenter's bags
7
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19
Surgical bags
7
"Tamar
..
""
Compasses
7
Chart Office
"2
""
Chart of approaches to Hong Kong
7
Lanterns
Candles
Hand axes
Life-belts
Bed burgees
Answering pendants
Boat flags
Boat's signal books
Telescopes
7
N.S.O.
""
"2
39
""
lbs. As requisite
"
"
37
7
""
19
140
"
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""
7
"
""
7
"
""
""
set
1
29
事
4
"
7
"
94
Reindeer buoys and mooring complete
60
13
Mining room.
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PART II-CABLE CUTTING.
Peace.
1. You are to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with the routes (within British territorial waters) of all cables landing at Hong Kong.
2. The following stores are maintained at the Torpedo Depôt, Kowloon, for the purpose of cable-cutting :-
Two explosive creeps, fitted complete.
Two non-explosive creeps, fitted complete.
Two 10-cell boats' batteries and earth plates.
Two Mark IV firing keys.
Six spare explosive grapnels and charges.
Two torpedo work-boxes, fitted complete.
War.
3. You will receive detailed secret instructions from the Commodore when any action is required.
(L.)-Action by the Chief Examining Officer.
(i.) Peace.
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 furnished to the Naval Secretary to the Commodore.
2. You are to make yourself familiar with the action to be taken by you in peace and on receipt of the "Warning" and "War" telegrams. Any suggestions for the improvement of these War Orders are to be brought to the notice of the Commodore, reaching the Naval Secretary by the first day in each quarter.
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