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Regulations & Instructions - 1808
Relating to His majesty's service at sea.
Section V - Chapter I
Captain: Of Fitting or Refitting the Ship.
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| Article I |
| WHEN a Captain or Commander is appointed to command one of His Majesty's Ships, he is to visit her throughout, in company with the Officers, and if the Ship be newly commissioned, with the Master Shipwright of the Dock Yard, or his Assistant, who will inform him of the condition of the Ship, and communicate to him the orders of the Navy Board for any alterations they may have thought it necessary to make in her. |
Captain or Commander appointed to a Ship to visit her throughout. |
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| Article II |
| He is to apply to the Navy Board, or to the Master Attendant of the Dock Yard, for such an account of the qualities of the Ship as may have been given by the Captains who have commanded her ; but if the Ship be new, he is to obtain from the Surveyors of the Navy their opinion respecting her trim, and the manner of stowing her hold. He is to order the Master to stow the iron ballast in the manner directed by the Master Attendant.
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To apply to Navy Board or Master Attendant for the qualities of a Ship.
If new to obtain the surveyor�s opinion. |
| Article III |
| All applications relating to the Ship, which require the authority of the Commissioner, are to be made to him in writing by the Captain, when he does not make them in person.
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To apply to the Commissioner in writing. |
| Article IV |
| He is to be very diligent in getting the Ship ready for Sea, or for such other service as he may be directed to fit her ; he is to inspect into, and to forward, as far as he may be able, all works doing on board; he is, once at least every week, to report to the Admiral or to the Commanding Officer present or, if there be no Commanding Officer, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, an account of the progress made in fitting the Ship, according to the Form (No.9) in the Appendix. He is to report also to the Commanding Officer any neglect, delay or other impediment to the fitting of the Ship, which he shall observe ; but if there. be no Admiral nor Commanding Officer present, he is to represent it to the Commissioner at the Dock Yard, the Commissioners of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Admiralty, as circumstances may require. |
To be diligent in getting his Ship ready for Sea and to report her progress ; and also any neglect, delay or other impediment. |
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| Article V |
| He is not to sleep out of the Ship from the day of his taking the command to that of his giving it up, without permission from the Admiralty or the Commanding Officer present.
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Not to sleep out of the Ship without permission. |
| Article VI |
| He is not to allow any Officer or other person to be absent from the Ship for more than Twenty-four hours at one time, without permission from the Commander in Chief ; nor for so long a time, unless he shall be confident that the Ship will not be ordered to Sail before it will be expired.
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Not to allow any Officer or other person to be absent more than twenty-four hours |
| Article VII |
| Upon the Ship's going into Port to refit he is to order a minute and strict survey of all the Stores, &c. and call upon the Warrant Officers to prepare Lists of such as are damaged or require to he replaced, so that only one Survey may take place during the Ship's stay in Port. And he is to be particularly cautious that no Article is put into the List for Survey but what he is convinced is damaged and bad and ought to be replaced. He is to inform himself of, and as much as possible conform himself to, the regulations of the Dock Yard, with respect to the receiving or returning of Stores ; the hours of working, the places for the landing of Boats, Stores, &c. and, when the Service will admit of it, he is to inform the Officers of the Yard a day or two before he purposes receiving or returning any Stores, or when the orders he is under are likely to require the attendance of Clerks out of the usual hours. He is to cause only one return to be made during his stay in Port, excepting a few days before he Sails ; when he is to cause an account to be made out of the Articles which have been broken or worn during the time the Ship has been refitting that he may receive others in lieu. |
To order a strict Survey of Stores, &c., on the Ship�s going into Port.
To call for lists of such as are damaged.
To inform himself of, and conform to, the Regulations of the Dock-yard.
To make only one return during his stay in Port. |
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| Article VIII |
| It being the particular duty of the Master attendant to prevent the Moorings in harbour from suffering any damage, the Captain is to order the Yards and Topmasts to be struck, and to take every other precaution which may be thought necessary, whenever the Master Attendant shall desire it.
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To take such precautions as the Master Attendant may desire. |
| Article IX |
| If it should be necessary, in the fitting of any Ship, that she should be taken along side of, or that her Crew should be removed into, a Receiving Ship, or Hulk; the Captain is to give particular directions that no damage he done to such Hulk, nor to any of the Store-rooms or Cabins ; she is to be kept, during the continuance of the Crew on board, as clean as circumstances will admit, and pumped out when necessary. The Captain is to see, on their quitting her, that she is delivered perfectly clean and, as far as may depend upon him, in good order, either to the proper Officer of the Dock Yard, or to the Captain of such Ship as may be directed to take possession of her after him.
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To give directions that no damages be done to any receiving Ship or hulk it may be necessary to make use of.
To deliver her up to the proper Officer in good order and clean. |
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