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Regulations & Instructions - 1808
Relating to His majesty's service at sea.
Section VI - Chapter III
Pilot.
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| Article I |
| A PILOT, taken on board any of His Majesty's Ships for a temporary service, shall be borne on a list of supernumeraries for Wages and Victuals, and shall be discharged as soon as the service is performed ; the Captains giving him Certificates, in which are to be particularly specified the dates of his Entry and Discharge, and the Ports or Channels into, or out of, which he had conducted the Ship. But a Pilot employed on any service which may
require his permanent residence on board, shall be borne as part of the complement, and shall have, if he requires it, a certificate once in every three Calendar Months, stating the whole of the services performed by him within that period, to enable him to receive his wages ; and when he leaves the Ship, a certificate from the day following that for which he has already received a certificate. On all occasions when a Ship is in pilot-water, or in the neighbourhood of the land, of rocks, or of shoals, the Captain is to take particular care that the hand-lead be kept constantly going, whether the Pilot or the Master think this precaution necessary or not ; and if it shall appear that a Ship has been brought into danger of running on shore, or has been wrecked by a neglect of this precaution, the Captain will be accountable far it. |
Pilots in temporary service to be borne on a list of supernumeraries for wages and victuals.
Certificates to be granted by the Captain.
If permanently employed to be borne as part of the complement.
The hand lead to be kept constantly going when a Ship is in Pilot-water. In case of danger or getting on shore by neglect of this precaution, the Captain to be accountable. |
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| Article II |
| The Captain shall order a berth to be enclosed for the Pilot in a situation convenient for his attending to his duty ; and shall direct his being furnished during his stay on board with a hammock and a set of bedding. He is to consider him as of equal rank with the warrant Officers, and is to see that he is treated with proper attention and respect.
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Captain to order a berth for the Pilot ; to consider him of equal rank with the Warrant Officers. |
| Article III |
| Captains of Ships which are to sail from the River Thames, or the Nore, are to apply to the Commissioners of the Navy for Pilots, and are to employ those only who shall be sent them by the Trinity-house of Deptford Stroud ; but Captains of Ships which are to sail from the Downs to the Nore or the Thames, are to employ Pilots belonging to the Society of Pilots at Dover.
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Captain sailing from the Thames or the Nore, to apply to the Commissioners of the Navy for Pilots ; but those sailing from the Downs to employ Dover pilots. |
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| Article IV |
| A Pilot is not to be employed, except where it has been the practice to employ one, or in Ports or Channels which have not been frequented by His Majesty's Ships, unless the ignorance of the Master shall make it necessary, which is to be specified in the Pilot's certificate that, if it be thought proper, the amount of his wages may be deducted from the Master's pay.
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Where and in what cases a Pilot is not to be employed. |
| Article V |
| The Captain is to order every thing, relating to the navigating of the Ship, to be performed as the Pilot shall require ; but he is to attend particularly to his conduct, and if from his own observation, or from the Master's report, he shall have reason to believe the Pilot not to be qualified to conduct the Ship, or that he is carrying her into danger, he is to remove him from his charge ; and to take such measures for the safety of the Ship as circumstances may require. The time of the Pilot being so removed is to be noted in the Ship's Log-book. The Captain is to make himself well acquainted with the passages through which Ships are to be carried by Pilots, as far as books and charts can inform him. And if the Ship be damaged by the ignorance or negligence of the Pilot, where a common degree of seamanship would have prevented the disaster, the Captain will be deemed culpable of neglecting a material part of his duty.
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Captain to order what the Pilot shall require respecting the navigation of the Ship.
Captain to make himself acquainted with passages through which Ships are to be carried by Pilots. |
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| Article VI |
| A Pilot employed abroad shall receive three certificates of the services he performs (to be marked respectively 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) of the same tenor and date, and shall have the option of being paid the amount due thereon, either abroad or at home : but in order to prevent payment of the duplicate or triplicate abroad, when the first certificate may have been paid at home, or vice versa, the three are to be made payable at one and the same place, the name of which is to be written in each certificate : should two of the set be lost, payment will be made on the third when presented. |
Three certificates to be given to a Pilot employed abroad. |
| Article VII |
| Foreign Pilots are to be paid according to the usual rate of the country in which they are employed, and the Captains of His Majesty's Ships, where there is no Naval Officer, shall in all cases where it may be in their power to do so, pay them by bills drawn upon the Navy Board, transmitting to that Board at the same time, as a Voucher, a certificate from the signing Officers of the Ship of the service performed, a receipt from the Pilot (except the bill is drawn in his favor) and a certificate from the Governor or Consul, or two respectable merchants, stating that the charges are at the usual rate and, if the amount is in currency, that the exchange at which it is reduced into sterling is at the current rate of the day. The charges are to be stated in the Voucher in currency as well as in sterling whenever the payment is made in the former. If it should not be in the Captain's power to draw bills he is to grant the Pilot three certificates as pointed out in the former article, to be paid either by the Consul or the Navy Board at the Pilot's option, sending to the latter a copy of the certificate.
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Foreign Pilots to be paid according to the usual rate of the country in which they are employed, by bills on Navy Board.
Or to grant him three certificates as in preceding article. |
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| Article VIII |
| As an encouragement to Masters and second Masters to make themselves acquainted with the navigation on every coast where they may be employed ; the Captain of any of His Majesty's Ships, not being able to procure Pilots where Pilots are required, and being satisfied of the ability of either of them to conduct the Ship, may put her under his charge (preferring, if qualified, the Master) and if he execute the service properly, he shall, provided he has upon examination at the Trinity-house been found qualified to take charge of such a Ship as Pilot for the place mentioned in the certificate, have the full allowance made to a Pilot for the like service, provided the service performed is in the North or Baltic Sea, but on all other stations or services, whether at home or abroad, he is to receive half pilotage only. The Master or any other person is not to receive payment for such services abroad, but is to receive three certificates for the same, in the manner pointed out in the 7" article, which are to be presented for payment at the Office of the Commissioners of the Navy.
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Masters and second Masters to be allowed to take charge of the Ship where Pilots are not to be had, if qualified ; where he is to receive full, and where half pilotage. |
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| Article IX |
| As by their Contracts, the Owners of hired Ships, Cutters, and other armed Vessels, are to provide for them Masters who have been accustomed to sail in Ships and Vessels of this description, it is incumbent upon the latter, to take charge of them upon all ordinary cases of cruising or pilotage, where it is not usual for a King's Ship to employ a Pilot extra ; and it having been deemed advisable, in order to prevent any unnecessary expense to the public on this account, to require as indispensable to the payment of certificates for pilotage of hired Vessels, that they be approved by the Commander in Chief, or Commanding Officer on the station ; or that his order for the employment of the Pilot is produced. The Commanders in Chief and Commanding Officers are required to pay due attention to this particular, and govern themselves accordingly
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Masters of hired armed Vessels to take charge of them on all ordinary cases of cruising or pilotage. |
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