Manual for submarine mining

Name: Manual for submarine mining
Author: United States. War Department

United States. War Department

Submarine mines -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Alcohol.
    Anchors.
    Axe.
    Boat hooks.
    Buoy, key.
    Buoys, mine.
    Cable cutter.
    Cables, multiple.
    Cables, single conductor.
    Cable tags.
    Clips, cable.
    Cotter pins.
    Crank handle for automatic anchor.
    Dry cells.
    Grappling hooks.
    Hammers.
    Heaving lines.
    Kerosene.
    Knives, submarine mine.
    Lamps, alcohol (2).
    Life buoys (3).
    Marline.
    Marlinespikes.
    Matches.
    Megaphone.
    Mines.
    Monkey wrenches.
    Nuts.
    Ropes, mooring.
    Ropes, raising.
    Shackles, anchor.
    Shackles, mine.
    Shoes, mine-cap.
    Sister hooks.
    Spring balance.
    Stamping outfit.
    Tools and materials necessary to make Turk’s-heads and joints.
    Voltmeter.
    Washers.
    Waste.
    Wire, soft-drawn copper.
    Wrench, socket, for automatic anchor.

              On distribution box boat.

    Alcohol.
    Anchors, boat (2).
    Axe.
    Boat hook.
    Boat telephone with connectors and earth plate.
    Breaker of drinking water.
    Buoy.
    Cable tags.
    Compass, boat.
    Distribution box.
    Flags, boat (2).
    Gasoline (tankful).
    Green light.
    Hammers.
    Heaving lines.
    Kerosene.
    Knives, submarine mine.
    Lamps, alcohol (2).
    Lashings.
    Life buoys (2).
    Life preservers, one for each man.
    Marline.
    Marlinespike.
    Matches.
    Megaphone.
    Monkey wrenches.
    Notebook and pencil.
    Red light.
    Rope, raising.
    Ropes, buoy (2).
    Shackles.
    Tools and materials to make Turk’s-heads and joints.
    Waste.
    White lights (2).

               In each yawl.

    Anchor, boat.
    Anchor line.
    Boat hook.
    Heaving line.
    Life buoy.
    Life preservers, 1 for each man.
    Marline.
    Megaphone.
    Oars and locks (7).
    Sounding line.

=Preparing mine cables.=—A reel of single-conductor cable is taken from
the tank and placed on a cable-reel frame. A piece 20 feet long is cut
off the end to eliminate the part which was above water during storage.
The cable for the mines is now unreeled, cut to the following lengths
_plus twice the approximate depth of the water_, and each end carefully
tagged with the number of the corresponding mine. A Turk’s-head is made
on each end.

                 Feet.                     Feet.
    No. 1       1,425    |    No. 11        425
    No. 2       1,225    |    No. 12        475
    No. 3       1,025    |    No. 13        525
    No. 4         825    |    No. 14        625
    No. 5         725    |    No. 15        725
    No. 6         625    |    No. 16        825
    No. 7         525    |    No. 17      1,025
    No. 8         475    |    No. 18      1,225
    No. 9         425    |    No. 19      1,425
    No. 10        375    |

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Manual for submarine mining

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