Instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea.

  • Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The surveying Officers are not to direct any Stores or Provisions to be thrown overboard, except such as by their state may be pre- judicial to the health of the Ship’s company; whatever they find in such state, they are themselves to see thrown into the Sea before they leave the Ship; and they are to mention their having done so in their report. All other Stores, not convertible to any use, they are to direct the Officer having charge of them to return into store, whenever the Ship shall go to a Port where there is a Store-keeper, or other Officer authorized to receive them. 9. If any Officer shall wilfully sign any false report of the quantity or condition of the Articles he is ordered to survey, or shall discover any fraudulent practices in the Management of them, without making proper mention thereof in his Report; or if any person shall give any false account of Stores or Provisions, by which the surveying Officers may be deceived, and be led to make out an improper report, he is to be immediately suspended, and his misconduct re- ' ported to the Commander-in-Chief, or to the Secretary of the Admi- ralty, that he may be tried by a Court Martial, or otherwise dealt with as may be deemed proper. 10. When any Officer employed on a Foreign station shall be repre- sented to the Commander-in-Chief as being in such a state of health, as to render it necessary for him to go to another climate, the Com- mander-in-Chief is to order three Captains, and the S urgeons of the Ships they command, to survey him; and if they shall be satisfied that to continue in the service in which he is employed would be attended with danger, and that a change of climate is necessary to his recovery, they are to report accordingly, particularly specifying T