Instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea.

  • Great Britain. Admiralty
Date:
1825
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Credit: Instructions relating to His Majesty's service at sea. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • / CONVOYS. 145 11. While two or more Convoys continue together, the Senior Officer is to command the whole, and in the night he is to carry the lights of a Commander-in-Chief; the Officer next in seniority, who has the command of a Convoy, is to carry the lights of, and to repeat all signals as, the second in command, although there be present an Officer who is senior to him, but who has not the command of a Convoy ; the third in seniority who has the command of a Convoy is to act as the third in command, and so on for all the Convoys which may happen to be together. 12. All Officers who have the command of Convoys are to take under their protection the Vessels of His Majesty’s Allies, which shall be ready to sail, and the Masters of which shall request it; and he is to protect such Ships as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as those of His Majesty’s subjects. But His Majesty’s Ships are not to take under their protection the Ships of any Power which is at war with any other Power, with which His Majesty is not at war, nor the Ships of a Neutral Power, unless ordered so to do, or some very particular circumstances shall occur to render it necessary, of which they are to send the earliest possible information to the Secretary of the Admiralty. u