Lieutenants, Musters, and Ensigns ---- Navigator. drift leads ready for service, and that a boat is always ready for lowering. 446....A Lieutenant, Master, or Ensign, when called or sent on board the vessel of the Commander-in-Chief, Commander of a squadron, or Commander of a division, to receive orders, is to take with him an order book, and insert therein the orders that may be given to him. 447....An Officer commanding a division of guns and men on board a vessel is to be held responsible for its efficiency in all respects. Besides keeping the guns in constant condition for action, and the men well trained to their use agreeably to the Ordnance Instructions, he is to give his personal attention to the cleanliness and good appearance of the men; to the examination of their clothing and bedding, and to the making out requisitions to supply their necessary wants at stated periods; to the issuing of clothing to them, and to their converting materials drawn from the paymaster to the purpose for which they were required; to observe that their clothing is neatly made, marked, and kept in good order, and to keep correct clothes lists. In inspecting clothing, it is to be done by calling a gun's crew at a time, and also in making out requisitions. SECTION 9. 448....The Line Officer next in rank to the Executive Officer shall be the Navigator. 449....He shall, at sea, ascertain and report daily to the Commanding Officer the vessel's position at meridian, and make such other reports of position, variation of the compass, &c., as the Commanding Officer may require. 450....He is to have charge of, and must account for, all nautical instruments, books, charts, national flags, and signals. 451.... He shall frequently examine the compasses, time glasses, log and lead lines, and thus see that they are constantly in proper order for service. 452....He shall examine the charts of all coasts which the vessel may visit, and note upon them any errors which he may discover, and Navigator. inform the Commanding Officer of the same, who shall report them to the Navy Department. 453....When the vessel may be approaching any land or shoals, or entering any port or harbor, he shall be very attentive to the soundings, and he shall at all times inform the Commander of any danger to which he may think the vessel exposed, whether under charge of a pilot or not. 454.... He shall have charge of keeping the ship's log-book, and shall see that all particulars are duly entered in it, according to such forms as are or may be prescribed, and he shall, immediately after such entries, send it to the watch officers, that they may sign their names at the end of the remarks in their respective watches while the circumstances are fresh in their memories, and he shall take it to the Commanding Officer for his inspection immediately after noon of each day. 455....There shall be entered on the log-slate and log-book, with minute exactness, the following particulars : 1. The name and rank, or rating, of all persons who may join or be discharged from the vessel; all transfers, deaths, and desertions; the names of all persons made prisoners by an enemy, and of all absent without leave; the names of all passengers, with times of coming aboard and leaving; the direction of the wind, state of the weather, courses steered, and distances sailed; the time when any particular evolution, exercise, or other service was performed; the signal number of all signals made, the time when, and by what vessels, and to what vessel they were made; the nature and extent of all public punishments inflicted, with the name and crime of the offenders; the rating and disrating of Petty Officers; the result of all observations made to find the ship's place, and all dangers discovered in navigation. 2. The grounding of the ship, and the loss of or serious injury to boats, spars, sails, rigging, and stores of any kind, with the circumstances under which they happened, and the extent of the injury received. 3. A particular account of all stores received, from whom received, or by whom furnished, and the department for which they were received. Navigator. 4. A particular account of all stores condemned by survey, or converted to any other purpose than that for which they were originally intended. 5. A particular account of all stores lent, or otherwise sent out of the vessel, and by what authority it was done. 6. All the marks and numbers of each cask or bale, which, on being opened, is found to contain less than is specified by the invoice, or than it ought to contain, with the deficiency found 7. Every alteration made in the allowance of provisions, and by whose order. 8. The employment of any hired vessel, her dimensions in tonnage, the name of the master or owner, the number of her crew, how or for what purpose employed, by whose order, and the reasons for her employment. 9. The draught of water, light and loaded, as furnished at the navy yard; and always on going into or leaving port the ship's draught is to be taken and entered on the log., 456....After the log has been signed by the officers of the watches no alteration shall be made therein, except to correct some error, or supply some omission, and then only with the approbation of the Commanding Officer, and upon the recollection of the officer who had charge of the watch in which the alteration or addition is proposed, who shall then sign the same if satisfied of its correctness. 457....The navigator shall deliver to the Commanding Officer of the vessel, signed by himself, and, after careful comparison, certified to be correct, a fair copy of the log-book, every six months, to be transmitted by the first safe opportunity to the Bureau of Navigation. 458.. The original log-book shall be kept by the vessel until she is paid off, when it shall be placed in charge of the Commanding Officer of the yard, and by him transmitted to the Bureau of Navigation. 459...Besides the log book, he is to keep a remark-book, in which all the hydrographical information he can obtain is to be carefully inserted, as well as a description of the instruments he may employ in any of the observations hereafter mentioned. He is to determine as Navigator. accurately as he can the various particulars relating to navigation of every place which the vessel may visit, entering the results in his remark-book, under the following heads: 1. Latitude. 2. Longitude. 3. Variation of the compass. 4. Time of high water immediately following new and full moon. 5. Rise and fall of the tides at springs and neaps. 6. Prevailing winds. 7. Periods of the year at which the wet and dry seasons pre vail, if any. 8. Seasons at which hurricanes prevail. 9. The temperature of the chronometer room at the time observations are taken. The particular spot at the place visited, to which the latitude and longitude refer, is to be carefully noted; also, the number and nature of the observations, and the means by which they were made, whether the artificial or sea horizon was used; and with reference to the longitute, if obtained with chronometers by means of meridian distances from another place, he is to state the number employed, their general character, the age of the rates used, or the interval since which they were last rated, with the longitude he has assumed of the place measured from. He is to observe the variation of the compass by amplitudes or azimuths, at least once every day, whether at sea or in port, excepting only when refitting in harbor. The azimuth compass is to be always placed, when practicable, in the same precise situation amidships, marking the point where each of the tripod legs stands ; and he is to take care that the direction of the ship's head at the time of observation shall be recorded, as well as the difference between the standard or azimuth and the steering compasses, by which precaution alone can the real course of the ship be regulated. These variations are to be daily inserted in columns at the end of his remark-book, along with the ship's place and the direction of her head at the time of observation. The local attraction is to be determined before the ship leaves Navigator. the United States, as well as after any material change of latitude, and is then to be tabulated by him for every point of the compass, so that the corrections on each course may be readily applied in working the ship's reckoning. In all places he is to ascertain the direction and velocity of the currents, the set and strength of the tides, with the limits of their rise and fall, and the time of high water of the tide which immediately follows the periods of the new and full moon. He is to describe as particularly as he can the appearances of foreign coasts, pointing out the remarkable objects by which they may be distinguished, so as to render a stranger certain of recoguizing his land fall. He is to apply for boats to sound and survey any shoals or harbors which have not been correctly laid down in the charts, and the results are to be projected on a large and intelligible scale. In his remark-book he is carefully to note all inaccuracies in any of the charts supplied to the ship. He is frequently to present this remark-book to the Commander for examination, and on the first of January, in every year, he is to deliver to him a correct copy of it, accompanied by all the charts, plans, and views of the coasts and headlands which he has made during the past year, all of which the Commander will transmit by the first safe opportunity to his Commander-in-Chief to be forwarded to the Department. 460....Every vessel, before sailing, shall be furnished with a skeleton chart embracing her probable cruising ground, on which he shall lay down her track and daily run during the whole time of her absence, which chart shall be transmitted to the Bureau of Navigation at the end of the cruise. 461....He shall keep a book, in which he shall make all calculations connected with the navigation of the vessel. No erasures shall be made, but the book shall be a complete record of all observations, computations and results, with the dates upon which the observations and computations were made. At the end of the cruise this book shall be sent to the Bureau of Navigation by the Commander of the vessel. 462....He is, if ordered to a vessel before a stowage is commenced, to superintend, under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the yard, or Commander of the vessel, as the case may be, the stowage of the ballast, water, provisions, and all other articles. 463....In stowing provisions he shall take care that the oldest be |