Chapter II: Part 2

63. Each Corps will be supplied gratuitously with arms from the Government stores to the full number of its enrolled members, if required.

[Sidenote: Description of arms.]

64. The arms to be supplied are in Appendix C.

[Sidenote: Armouries to be available before arms are supplied.]

65. Before any Government arms can be issued, it is necessary that the Admiralty shall be satisfied that one or more places of security for the custody of the arms have been provided at the expense of the Volunteers. The Drill Ships, Coast Guard Stations, or Police Stations will probably be available in some places for the purpose.

[Sidenote: Application for arms.]

66. Commanding Officers of Corps are to apply for the arms required in the prescribed Form of Requisition given in Appendix D, addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty.

[Sidenote: Marking arms.]

67. The arms of a Brigade will be marked previously to their issue, and a request to that effect is to be inserted in the requisition on which the arms are demanded.

No other marks than those on them when issued are on any account to be put on the arms.

[Sidenote: Responsibility for arms.]

68. All arms issued to the Corps remain the property of Her Majesty's Government, and the Commanding Officer for the time being is held responsible for their being at all times in a serviceable state, and for their being returned into store when required in good condition, fair wear and tear excepted.

[Sidenote: Cleaning and care of arms.]

69. Great attention should be paid to the proper cleaning and care of the arms entrusted to the Volunteers, and the Commanding Officers are to point out to those under their command that, should rust be allowed to accumulate on any part of a rifle, it must inevitably impair the accuracy and efficiency of the weapon.

[Sidenote: Depositing arms.]

70. The arms are to be deposited after drill in the armouries of the Brigade or Corps, except when the Commanding Officer may judge it expedient to permit members of the Brigade to keep their arms at their own houses.

As the Commanding Officer is responsible for the condition of the arms, this permission may be withdrawn by him whenever he may consider it necessary.

The arms retained in private custody will be subject to inspection at any time, and they are to be examined at least once in six months by the Commanding Officer of the Brigade or Officers appointed by him for that purpose.

[Sidenote: Repairs of arms.]

71. Arms requiring repair are to be deposited with the Gunner of the Drill Ship to which the Brigade is attached.

[Sidenote: Charge for repairs.]

72. Repairs of arms arising from fair wear, found to be necessary in order to make the arms serviceable, will be executed free of charge; the expense of other repairs will be borne by the Corps.

[Sidenote: Allowance of Ammunition.]

73. Ammunition in the following proportion, to be reckoned from the 1st April in each year, is allowed:--

For Guns.

For each Battery of Brigade Shot 100
" " " Shell 25
" " " Blank 30

or

For each Trained Man Shot 4
" Efficient Shot 2
And for the Battery Shell 25
" " Blank 30

For Small Arms.

Gratis. Allowed to Total.
be
purchased.

For every Efficient Rifled Ball 70 50 120
for his first year's
service

Blank 10 50 60

Pistol 100 100 200

Caps 110 110 220

For every Efficient Rifled Ball 50 70 120
after his first
year's service

Blank 60 60

Pistol 50 100 150

Caps 60 110 170

[Sidenote: Storing of Ammunition.]

Requisitions for small arm ammunition, in accordance with the established proportion, are to be forwarded to the Commanding Officer of the nearest Drill Ship or District Coast Guard Ship for transmission to the nearest Control Officer. Special demands should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Admiralty by the Captains of the above ships for approval, on Form given in Appendix E.

74. Every Brigade is required to provide a secure place for the custody of its small arm ammunition; but in cases where the store of ammunition is sufficiently large to make it desirable that it should be stored in the magazines of any of Her Majesty's ships, used as Drill Ships for the Volunteers, Commanding Officers of such ships will afford facilities for its reception.

[Sidenote: Conveyance of Ammunition.]

75. Every care is to be taken in the conveyance and general handling of ammunition, and the Regulations and customs of the Royal Navy in that respect are to be strictly adhered to.

[Sidenote: Metal Cylinders, &c.]

76. Metal cylinders, or leather cartridge cases, for conveying the surplus ammunition collected from the pouches of Volunteers, under the provisions of Article 61, will be supplied at cost price.

[Sidenote: Return of articles unserviceable or obsolete.]

77. No article of equipment will be returned into store for the purpose of being replaced, until it has become thoroughly unserviceable. No articles will be returned into store on account of being of an obsolete pattern without the authority of the Admiralty.

[Sidenote: Stores lost or injured to be paid for.]

78. All arms or other stores supplied free of cost and placed in the custody of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, are, if lost, destroyed, or injured by fault or neglect, to be paid for by the Corps.

[Sidenote: Demands for Stores.]

79. All demands for stores, in accordance with the established proportion allowed, are to be made out in the War Office Forms in use in Her Majesty's Navy, and are to be forwarded by the Commanding Officers of Brigades to the nearest Drill Ship or Coast Guard Ship for transmission to the nearest Control Officer. Special demands should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Admiralty for approval by the Captains of the above-named ships.

DRILL.

[Sidenote: Nature of.]

80. The drills of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers will comprise the drills for Great Guns, Rifle, Pistol, and Cutlass, as in the Royal Navy, and no deviation from those drills is to be permitted.

[Sidenote: By whom to be carried out.]

81. All drills will be carried out by the Instructors attached to the Brigades under the Officer Instructor, and when on board any of Her Majesty's ships they will be also subject to the supervision of the Commanding Officer of the ship.

[Sidenote: Qualification for "Efficient."]

82. The qualification necessary for an Efficient will be found in the Appendix F, and may be amended as the Admiralty may from time to time think necessary.

[Sidenote: Badge of Efficiency.]

83. A Badge of Efficiency will be worn by men who were returned as "Efficient" in the last Annual Return of the Brigade.

The Badge will consist of a chevron of silver lace worn on the right arm above the wrist.

Men who have been five times returned as efficient may wear one star, and those who have been returned ten times may wear two stars above the badge.

[Sidenote: Trained Man.]

84. Volunteers who pass the examination for Trained Man, as in the Royal Navy, will be so designated, and will wear two chevrons of silver lace on the right arm above the wrist.

[Sidenote: Non-efficients to attend drills.]

85. Every Volunteer must attend at least two drills a month until he has obtained the standard of an "Efficient."

[Sidenote: Firing practice to be superintended.]

86. No firing practice with great guns is to be carried on by Volunteers, except under the superintendence of an Officer of the Royal Navy, or of an Officer Instructor of Volunteers, unless a relaxation of this rule has been especially sanctioned by the Admiralty.

[Sidenote: Precautions when at gun-practice.]

87. Sword bayonets are not to be worn at gun-drill, or when moving powder.

No smoking is on any account to be allowed in the vicinity of magazines or cases containing powder.

No persons are to be allowed to congregate round barrels or cases containing powder.

Powder cases or barrels are not to be opened either inside a magazine, or immediately outside the door.

ALLOWANCES.

[Sidenote: On actual service.]

88. When on actual service the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers will receive the same pay, allowances, and victuals as the Officers and Continuous Service Seamen of the ranks and ratings in the Royal Navy of relative rank, and will have the same means of allotting pay to wives, relatives and friends, and whilst on actual service will be treated in the same manner in every respect.

[Sidenote: Not on actual service.]

89. When not on actual service and embarked on board any of Her Majesty's ships for more than forty-eight hours, the Volunteers will be victualled for the whole time they are so embarked, or receive compensation for provisions at the rate of 1_s._ 6_d._ per day; but when they are embarked for less than forty-eight hours, they will not receive victuals or an allowance in lieu.

[Sidenote: Wounds or injuries on service or drill.]

90. If a Volunteer is wounded or injured on service or on drill, he will be entitled to the same pension to which any seamen in Her Majesty's Navy would be entitled for a similar wound or injury; or if killed, slain, or drowned on service, or on drill, his widow (if any) will be entitled to the same gratuities, out of Greenwich Hospital Funds as the widow of any other Seamen of the Navy of the same rating.

[Sidenote: Hospital or Sick Quarters.]

91. Volunteers taken seriously ill or injured whilst undergoing drill, may be sent to a Naval Hospital or Sick Quarters for treatment.

[Sidenote: Applications for Pensions.]

92. Applications for pensions or compensations for injuries or hurts received whilst on service or drill, are to be specially made to the Admiralty; the nature and cause of the injury are to be fully reported, and the names of the witnesses, as also whether blame was attributable to the Volunteer making the application, when the case will be considered as it deserves.

[Sidenote: Purchase of clothing, &c.]

93. Volunteers are allowed to purchase at the Government rate any clothing or necessaries that may be requisite for their outfit or dress as belonging to the Corps.

PERMANENT STAFF.

[Sidenote: Composition.]

94. The Permanent Staff of a Brigade will consist of one Officer Instructor to the Brigade, and one Petty Officer Instructor for each Battery composing the Brigade.

[Sidenote: Appointment.]

95. The appointments to the Permanent Staff will be made by the Admiralty, and will be tenable for a term of five years, or for such lesser period that the Admiralty may think fit.

[Sidenote: Officer whence selected.]

96. The Officer Instructor will be commissioned as Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, and will be selected from Officers of, or retired from, the Royal Navy, of and above the rank of Lieutenant.

[Sidenote: Qualification.]

97. The Officer Instructor will be required to undergo a course of Instruction in one of the Gunnery Ships to qualify him for the duties of Instructor in Heavy and Truck Gun Drills, Rifle, Pistol and Cutlass Exercises.

[Sidenote: Not to hold other appointment.]

98. As the services of an Officer Instructor will be at all times required by the Volunteers, he will not be permitted to follow any profession or appointment, public or private.

[Sidenote: Age.]

99. No Officer whose age exceeds 50 years is eligible for the appointment of Officer Instructor.

[Sidenote: Rank and position.]

100. An Officer Instructor of Naval Volunteers is purely a Staff Officer, and except for the purpose of Instruction, is not entitled, by virtue of his superior rank, to take the command of any Force of Naval Volunteers, when an Officer of the Corps is present.

[Sidenote: General duties.]

101. An Officer Instructor is appointed to give Instruction to the Volunteers. He is subject to the orders of his Commanding Officer, and he is required to assist him in carrying on the naval duties of the Brigade; but he is not to take any part in the civil affairs of the Brigade.

It is his duty to keep the muster-rolls of the Brigade, and to make himself acquainted with all the members of Brigade, and their qualifications and dispositions.

He is to superintend the drills and exercises of the Brigade, and is to have complete control over the Petty Officer Instructors of the several Batteries, and is responsible to the Admiralty that their duties are properly performed, and that the drills are in accordance with those laid down for the Royal Navy.

[Sidenote: Diary.]

102. The Officer Instructor is required to keep a diary of the Instruction imparted by him to the Volunteers according to Form G Appendix. This diary is to be certified by the Commanding Officer of the Brigade, and transmitted to the Admiralty on the 1st of every month.

[Sidenote: Control over Petty Officer Instructors.]

103. The Officer Instructor will, under the Commanding Officer of the Brigade, have control over the Petty Officer Instructors, both as regards their discipline and their duties as Instructors; and he will, should he have occasion, report any misconduct or incompetency of a Petty Officer Instructor to the Admiralty.

PETTY OFFICER INSTRUCTORS.

[Sidenote: Rank and position.]

104. The Petty Officer Instructors will have the rank First Class Petty Officers in the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force, and will be selected from Pensioned Petty Officers of the Royal Navy and must hold a Certificate from one of the Gunnery Ships of competency as an Instructor in Heavy and Truck Gun Drill, Rifle, Pistol and Cutlass Exercises.

They will be purely Staff Petty Officers, and will not be entitled, by virtue of their superior rank, to take the command of any of the Naval Volunteers, when a Petty Officer of the Corps is present, except for the purpose of instruction.

[Sidenote: Duties.]

105. The Petty Officer Instructors are to give instruction to the Volunteers under the direction of the Officer Instructor. They are subject to the Command of their superior Officers of the Naval Volunteers, and are to assist them in carrying on their Naval duties, but they are not to take any part in the civil affairs of the Brigade.

[Sidenote: Conduct.]

106. The Petty Officer Instructors will be expected, on all occasions, to set an example of what the Naval Volunteers should attain to, and they will only be allowed to retain their position so long as they conduct themselves as Petty Officers of the Royal Navy should do.

They are to consider the Officer Instructor as their immediate head, and apply to him in all matters that may be necessary.

[Sidenote: Diary.]

107. The Petty Officers Instructors will each keep a diary of the instruction imparted by him to the Volunteers according to Form in Appendix H. This diary is to be certified by the Commanding Officer of the Battery, and transmitted weekly to the Officer Instructor.

[Sidenote: Pay of Permanent Staff.]

108. The Permanent Staff will receive pay as follows:--

Officer Instructor 10_s._ per day.
Petty Officer Instructor 3_s._ "

Uniform For Officers.

109. The Uniform to be worn by the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers is to be of the same pattern as for Officers of the corresponding ranks in the Royal Navy, with the following exceptions viz.:

[Sidenote: Distinctive lace.]

110. Instead of each distinctive stripe of half-inch gold lace round the sleeve, there is to be a stripe formed of two waived lines of quarter-inch silver braid, running parallel to each other so as to form bands three-quarters of an inch wide, the blue cloth to show quarter of an inch between the lines of braid.

[Sidenote: Buttons.]

111. The buttons to be of the Naval Pattern, with the letters R.N. on one side of the anchor and A.V. on the other side.

The crown and anchor to be gilt, and the remainder of the button silver.

[Sidenote: Epaulettes.]

112. The epaulettes to be silver, and, instead of the anchor on the epaulette, there is to be a badge consisting of an anchor in the centre, surrounded by the words "R. N. A. Volunteers," embroidered in gold.

Crown and stars, when worn on the epaulettes, to be embroidered in gold.

[Sidenote: Hat.]

113. Instead of the bullion loop on the cocked hat, the loop to be formed of two silver braids, waved as on the coat sleeves, and the tassels to be silver.

[Sidenote: Badge for cap.]

114. The badge for the cap to have the letters R.N. placed on one side of the anchor, and the letters A.V. on the other side.

The anchor and letters to be embroidered in gold, and the surrounding laurel leaves in silver. The crown to be embroidered in gold and silver, as in the Naval Pattern.

[Sidenote: Sword-belt.]

115. The plate of the sword belt and the swivel to be silver. The crown and anchor on it to be gilt, and the letters R.N.A.V. on each side of the anchor, also gilt.

[Sidenote: Lace and embroidery.]

116. All lace and embroidery, except where otherwise ordered in these Regulations, is to be of silver.

Dress Uniform.

117. Coat the same as undress.

Trowsers.--The lace on the seam to be silver.

Sword-belt.--The embroidered lines to be silver.

The dress-trowsers and sword-belt to be worn only on such occasions as are customary in the Royal Navy.

Petty Officers and Gunners.

118. The Uniform to be of the same pattern as for Petty Officers and Seamen of the Royal Navy, with the following exceptions, viz.:--

[Sidenote: Buttons.]

119. The buttons on jackets of Chief Petty Officers to be of silver, the same as those of the Officers.

The buttons of the Petty Officers and Gunners to be of the same pattern, but of black horn.

[Sidenote: Trimmings.]

120. The tape trimmings of the white frock to be waved in the same manner as the braid on the coat sleeves of the Officers.

[Sidenote: Badges.]

121. All badges are to be of silver embroidery on the jackets, and of silver or white on the blue serge.

On the white frock they are to be blue.

[Sidenote: Cap ribbons.]

122. The cap ribbon to have a crown and anchor in front, with the letters R.N. on one side of the anchor, and the letters A.V. on the other.

The crown and anchor and letters to be embroidered in silver on a black silk ribbon.

The letters to be five-eighths of an inch in size.

CORRESPONDENCE AND RETURNS.

123. All official correspondence from the Volunteer Brigades except the correspondence of the Officer Instructor in his capacity of Instructor, is to proceed from the Commanding Officer, or to pass through him.

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