Officers or Gentlemen, without Orders from the Admiralty.

To convoy Ships bound

bis Way.

To keep a Journal

XXXIX.

When he is to fail from one Port to another in Time of War, or Appearance of War, he is to give timely Notice to the Masters of Merchant Ships bound his Way, and take fuch of them under his Care and Protection, as shall be defirous and ready to accompany him, but not to make any unneceffary Stay, or deviate from his Orders upon that Account. He is to give. the faid Ships, as also to such others as he fhall meet with in his Paffage, fafe Convoy towards the Ports whereto they are bound, as far as his and their Way lye together.

XL.

He is from the Time of his going on board, to keep a Journal, according to the Form fet down in Page (158, 159.) and to be careful to note therein all. Occurrences, viz. Place where the Ship is at Noon; Changes of Wind and Weather; Salutes, with the Reasons thereof; Remarks on unknown Places; and in general, every Circumstance that concerns the Ship, her Stores, and Provifions. At the End of every Six Months, he is to fend a Copy of his Journal for the faid Time, to the Secretary of the Admiralty; and, at the Expiration of the Voyage, to deliver a general Copy of his Journal, figned by himself, into the Admiralty and Navy Offices.

XLI. He

XLI.

ceedings, and

the Ship.

He is, by all Opportunities, to fend particular Ac- To inform the Secretary of counts of his Proceedings to the Secretary of the Ad- the Admiralmiralty, mentioning therein the Condition of the ty of his ProShip, Men, Stores, and Provifions, together with all Condition of other Occurrences which he has met with, deferving Notice. He is never to omit owning the Receipt of Orders fent to him from the Admiralty; and he is likewise to keep a punctual Correspondence with the To correspond Navy, Victualling, Ordnance, Sick and Wounded, and other publick Offices, in whatsoever refpectively concerns them.

XLII.

with the proper Offices.

into Port unne

He is not to go into any other Port, than fuch as Not to his Orders direct him, unlefs by inevitable Neceffity, ceffarily. and then to make no unneceffary Stay there. If he is employed in a Cruizing Station, he is to keep the Sea the Time required by his Orders; but if he is compelled by any Accident to return fooner into Port, he is to fend in Writing the Reasons thereof to the Secretary of the Admiralty, as alfo to the Commander in Chief, if any fuch be there, and to put to Sea again, fo foon as the Ship's Wants are fupplied.

XLIII.

bout Anchoring.

Upon all Occafions of Anchoring, he is to be very Directions acareful in the Choice of a good Berth, and when he is at Anchor in Roads where he is a Stranger, to cause the Master, or fome other careful Officer, to E

found,

To permit
Custom-house

found, at leaft, as far as two or three Cables Diftance round the Ship, in order to inform him of the Nature of the Ground, and to discover if any hidden Rocks or Shoals be near; and he is to note down in his Journal the most proper Places for Anchoring, with the Depth of Water, Bearings of Points and Lands, and fuch other Remarks as he fhall' judge neceffary.

XLIV.

When any Custom-House Officers shall come on Officers to board, upon the Arrival of the Ship in any of His come aboard. Majefty's Ports, they are not to be obstructed or ill treated in the Execution of their Duty, His Majefty's Ships being liable to Vifitation, as well as the Ships of Merchants; and if they shall be in Need of the Ship's Provifions during their Stay on board, he is to order them to be victualled as the Ship's Company.

To demand

XLV.

When he meets with any Foreign Ship or Veffel, he English Sea- is to fend a Commiffion Officer to enquire if any Seaforeign Ships. men, who are His Majefty's Subjects, be on board her,

men out of

and to demand all fuch, obliging the Mafters to pay them their Wages to that Day. But this is to be done with civil and friendly Behaviour on the Part of His Majefty's Officers, who are to be very careful not to offer any Violence or ill Treatment to the Subjects of His Majefty's Friends or Allies.

XLVI.

When the Ship is in Foreign Parts, where there are How to careen the Ship no Naval Officers, and there fhall be an absolute Ne- in Foreign ceffity to careen her, the Captain is to do it with the Parts. beft Husbandry, and not to hire any Master Shipwrights to fupervise the Work, which is to be done by the Carpenter of the Ship.

XLVII

Veffels unne

Ship.

...He is not to hire any Veffels for careening the Ship, Not to hire or receiving her Stores or Provifions, unlefs the fame ceffarily for be abfolutely neceffary; and in that Cafe, not to careening the take up more Tunnage than is needful; nor to keep the fame longer than the Service will want; all which is to be proved by Certificate from the Signing Officers, and that the Rates the Veffels were hired at, were as reasonable as could be procured in those Parts; and the faid Certificates are to mention the Tunnage of the Veffels, Number of Men belonging to them, the Services they have been employed on, and the Time employed upon each diftinct Service

XLVIII.

the Ship, or

Charge.

He is never to cause the Ship to be painted either Not to paint within board or without, nor to bring any Charge in be at any unhis Accounts for Commiffion-Money, nor to bream neceflary the Ship with old Junk, old Ropes, or Tar, when Brush, or other Materials, can be had; and what old Mafts, Sparrs, Deals, and other Things remain after E 2

the

the Cleaning is over, are to be charged on the proper Officers for future Ufe.

XLIX.

Not to hire
Artificers un-

None are to be employed, but the Company of the neceffarily for Ship, in Careening and Refitting her; but if, by Refitting the reafon of Death or Sickness, there fhall be an absolute Ship. Neceffity of hiring any Sort of Artificers from the Shore, their Names are to be entered on a Lift, and they are to be daily mustered, and kept to their Works, and discharged as foon as they can be fpared; And as they are to be hired on the cheapest Terms, fo they, are to be paid by the faid Lift, in the Prefence of two, or more, Commiffion or Warrant Officers, who are to atteft the faid Payments.

Allowances to
Carpenters,

employed in

L.

And to encourage fuch Carpenters, Shipwrights, Shipwrights, and Caulkers, as ferve in His Majesty's Ships in Foreign and Caulkers, Parts, and fhall be employed in Working, either on Refitting the their own or other Ships of His Majefty, while they are refitting, the Captain of the Ship which they work upon, fhall make them the following Allowance by the Day, viz.

Ship.

To