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Store Allowances - Special Store Allowances

Allowances for Charge of Engineer's Stores

Hard-Lying Money for Vessels not in Commission - and Scales

1909 04 13
And whereas we have had under consideration the Extra Pay and Store Allowances at present paid to Officers and men of Your Majesty's Navy and Royal Marines

And whereas we are of opinion that it is desirable to remove certain anomalies in the payment of Extra Pay which have arisen in consequence of the changed conditions of service in vessels of Your Majesty's Navy out of commission, to award and consolidate the existing scales of Extra Pay, and to give the designation of Hard-lying Money to Extra Pay when paid fur living under special conditions

And whereas we consider that the duties in connection with the charge of stores (combined in some instances with responsible duties in Repair Ships) are of sufficient importance to warrant the grant of special allowances in ships and establishments in which allowances are not payable under existing regulations

Schedule A.

I. Store Allowances for Commissioned Officers.

Circumstances in which payable.	Year of 365 days.			One day
	�	s.	d.	�	s.	d.
Store Allowance to a Navigating or other Commissioned Officer (except Commissioned Warrant Officers):-
When placed in charge of Warrant Officers' Stores and Accounts:
For one description	18	5	0	0	1	0
For two descriptions	27	7	6	0	1	6
For three descriptions	36	10	0	0	2	0
When placed in charge of Accountant Officers' Stores and Accounts in the absence of that Officer, or in ships in which no Accountant Officer is borne.	45	12	6	0	2	6

This scale to take effect as from first April, one thousand nine hundred and eight In case where the application of this scale would result in a reduction of the allowance now being paid no change to be made until the Officer concerned is superseded.

II. Special Store Allowances to Commissioned Officers.

Establishment.	Nature of Stores.	Rate of Allowance			Date of Commencement.
Ascension Island	Naval Ordnance	1s.	0d.	a day	1st April 1908
Sydney Naval Depot.	Medical	1s.	6d.	a day	1st November 1906

Store Allowances for Commissioned Warrant and Warrant Officers.

Ship or Establishment.	Nature of Stores.	Rate of Allowance.	Date of Commencement.	Date of ending if necessity for allowance has ceased.
Tender To Victory:	All Warrant Officers� Stores	As for charge of one description of Stores in sea going ship in commission	11 July, 1908
Magnet

Tenders To Vivid :
Traveller
Neptune		1s. 6d. a day	22 May, 1905	16 Aug., 1907
Do.		As in case of Magnet and Traveller	17 Aug., 1907
Asia and subsequently Victory with Ant and Insolent	Boatswains' Carpenter's	As in seagoing ships in commission	1 April, 1904

			19 May, 1904
Depot Workshops:-
Portsmouth	Gunner's	As in seagoing ships in commission	30 July, 1904	22 April, 1908
	Boatswain's		8 Oct, 1903	22 April, 1908
	Carpenter's		1 May, 1905	15 March, 1907

Chatham	Gunner's		1 Oct., 1903	1 July, 1907
	Boatswain's		1 Oct., 11!03	26 April, 1907
	Carpenter's		16 Dec., 1903	28 Feb., 1907

Devonport	Gunner's		1 April, 1903	31 March, 1905
	Boatswain's		1 May, 1903	31 Dec., 1905
	Carpenter's		1 April, 1905	31 Dec., 1905

Sheerness Dockyard	Gunner's
	Boatswain's		1 April, 1904	31 Dec., 1906
	Carpenter's

Devonport Dockyard	Carpenter's		3 Sept., 1905	31 Dec., 1906
Hearty	All Warrant Officers' Stores	1s. 6d. a day to Chief Officer)	15 Feb., 1905	10 Oct,, 1908
Mechanical Training Establishments:
Fisgard	Boatswain's Carpenter's	As in seagoing ships in commission	1 Jan., 1906
Tenedos	Boatswain's Carpenter's
Indus	Boatswain's Carpenter's
Naval Barracks:-
Portsmouth	Naval Ordnance	As in seagoing ships in commission	20 May, 1904
Chatham			8 Feb., 1904	30 June, 1908
Devonport			1 March, 1904	3 Nov., 1907
Shotley			28 Oct., 1905
Chatham	Electrical and Torpedo Instructional		9 June, 1904	24 Feb., 1908
Boys' Training Ship : Impregnable with Inconstant
Boys' Training Ship : Impregnable with Inconstant	Boatswain's		1 April, 1905
Torpedo School, Portsmouth	Experimental	3d. a day	1 April, 1908
Receiving Ship, Gibraltar	Wireless Telegraphy	6d. a day	14 May, 1907
Newly Constructed Ships Prior To Commissioning	Gunner's. Boatswain's Carpenter's Torpedo	According to rates and conditions for Vessels in Special Reserve but for not more than 90 days prior to date of commissioning	1 Jan., 1905
Gunboat Tender To Chatham Depot :
Spey	All Warrant Officers' Stores	7d. a day	1 April, 1908
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth ,	Gunner's, and Boatswain's combined	As for one description of stores in a seagoing ship in commission	1 April, 1908
	Carpenter's	As in seagoing ship In commission	1 April, 1908

Schedule C.

Allowances to Commissioned Warrant and Warrant Officers for Repair Work and Charge of Repair Stores (in addition to ordinary Store Allowances).

Ship.	Duties carrying the Allowance.	Rate.			Date of Commencement.
Fleet Repair Ships :
Assistance	Gunner's (T)	1s.	6d.	a day	28 November, 1906
Cyclops	Carpenter's	2s.	6d.	a day	5 November, 1907
Any other vessels similarly employed hereafter	Gunner's (T) Carpenter's	At admiralty discretion but not exceeding above rates
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Depot Ships :
Aquarius	Carpenter's	1s.	a	day	11 June, 1907
Blake	Gunner's Carpenter's	1s.	a	day	1 July, 1907
Blenheim
Hecla
Leander
Tyne
Orion	Carpenter's	1s.	a	day	1 April, 1907
Any other vessels similarly employed hereafter	Gunner's Carpenter's	At admiralty discretion but not exceeding above rates

Schedule D.

Allowances for Charge of Engineer's Stores.

Ship or Establishment.	Rate of Allowance.	Date of Commencement.
Drill Ship, Newfoundland: Calypso	1s. a day	1 December, 1902
Receiving Ship, Gibraltar: Cormorant	1s. a day	1 October, 1906

Schedule E.

Hard-Lying Money For Vessels Not In Commission.

All Officers and men (including those belonging to record parties and those appropriated for service in any particular vessel) to be entitled from 1st April, 1909, to Hard-lying Money, at the rates set forth in the following schedule whilst actually living on board His Majesty's ships and vessels in the circumstances specified, viz. :

Class of ship and circumstances in which payable.	Rate.
Torpedo Boats:- During trials or cruises or when manned by a navigating party
	As provided under Schedule F.
Torpedo Boat Destroyers:- When manned by a navigating party, or undergoing steam, gunnery, torpedo, etc., trials All other ships when manned by a navigating party or undergoing steam, gunnery, torpedo, etc., trials	Half the rates provided under Schedule F

2. In cases where the period of living on board is less than 24 consecutive hours, hard-lying money for one day to be granted only when the Officers or men have to sleep on board the ship.

3. The Officer in command of navigating parties or of a ship under trial to receive, in addition to hard-lying money, the established seagoing command money of his rank.

* Applicable also at Admiralty discretion to vessels for auxiliary services, e.g., dredgers.

Schedule F.

Scale Of Hard Lying Money.

Ranks and Ratings.	Rate to each Person per diem.
	s.	d.
1. Lieutenants of the Navy and Officers of corresponding or superior rank	3	0
2. Sub-Lieutenants and Officers of corresponding rank Warrant and Subordinate Officers	2	0
3. Chief Petty Officers, Petty Officers (ICS.), Petty Officers 1^st Class (O.S.), Sergeants of Marines, and Artisans when employed at their trades	1	3
4. Second Class Petty Officers, Corporals of Marines, Leading Seamen, Able Seamen, Stokers, Artisans not employed at their trades (not being Chief Petty Officers, Petty Officers (N.S.) or Petty Officers 1st Class (O.S.) ) and others whose substantive pay is not less than le. 7d. a day	1	0
5. Ordinary Seamen, Privates, R.M., and others of the ship's company	0	9
6. Boys	0	3

Artisans shall include all men employed as such, whatever their ratings may be on ship's books. viz., as carpenters, sailmakers, blacksmiths, coopers, armourers, shipwrights, plumbers and painters,

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