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[Navy Order 77 of 1914.
SCHEME OF TRAINING OF BOYS AND ORDINARY SEAMEN, N.O.
2ND CLASS, DRAFTED TO H.M.A. SHIPS FROM H.M.A.S.
1914.
"TINGIRA."
The following scheme of training of Boys and Ordinary
Seamen, 2nd class (ex H.M.A.S. Tingira), while serving in
H.M.A. ships of the Sea-going Fleet is to be adhered to as
far as possible:—•
2. Ordinary Seamen 2nd class, Ordinary Signalmen 2nd
class, and Ordinary Telegraphists 2nd class, are, so far as
class for conduct, leave, and instructions are concerned, to
be considered as Boys.
3. Boys and Ordinary Seamen 2nd class are to be divided
into classes in which they will go through four periods of
instruction; each of these periods, or courses, is to last one
month.
The courses are to be as follow:—-
I. Seamanship.
II. School and Gunnery.
III. Gunnery.
IV. Special duties, side boys, messengers, call boys,
&c, also duty skiffs' and whaler's crews.
The regulations in Appendix XV., Part I., No. 81, King's
Regulations, are to be adhered to.
4. It has been found impossible to condense the gunnery
course into one month, as, owing to the lack of gunnery
appliances in the Tingira, the instruction given there has
to be supplemented by extra instruction at sea. For this
reason the scheme is made out for two classes to be under
gunnery instruction, which, continued with school, will give
each class six weeks' gunnery.
The details of the Gunnery Course are as follow:—
Field Training Course.
Field Exercises and Pistol \
Maxim Gun and Firing J
To perform Rifle and Pistol Exercises and Squad Drill.
To perform the duties of any number at a Maxim Gun.
To know the names of the parts of a rifle and pistol.
To know how to assemble rifle and pistol accoutrements.
Drill Course.
Gun Drill, 4-J days.
Stripping, 4-j days.
Ammunition, 4^ days.
To perform the duties of any number at a 4-in. or 6-in.
gun, and to answer questions on the notes.
To have a knowledge of the method of Night Control.