Manual for submarine miningUnited States. War Department
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Manual for submarine mining
United States. War Department
Submarine mines -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Marline, 1 pound to each mine.
Nails, assorted sizes, 25 pounds to each post.
Needles, cleaning, for Khotal lamps, 6 to each post.
Nipples, soft rubber, 1 to each hard rubber fuse can.
Oakum, 50 pounds to each post.
Oil, cylinder, 5 gallons to each casemate.
Oil, dynamo, 1 gallon to each casemate.
Oil, lubricating, 1 gallon to each storehouse.
Oil, linseed, as required, 3 gallons to 100 pounds of lead.
Oil, slushing, 5 gallons to each post.
Oil, tar, as required for marline-covered rope.
Oil, transformer, 1 gallon to each casemate transformer.
Packing, asbestos sheet, 2 pounds to each casemate.
Packing, asbestos wick, 1 pound to each casemate.
Packings, rubber, 100 to each 19 mines.
Paint, acid-resisting, as required.
Paint, steel color, for casemate apparatus, as required.
Paste, soldering, 1 pound to each post.
Paraffin, 10 pounds to each post.
Pencils, lead, 6 dozen to each post.
Plugs, attachment, 6 to each post.
Pomade, Putz, 3 pounds to each post.
Primers, explosive, 1 to each mine charge.
Pumice stone, 2 pounds to each casemate.
Resin, 2 pounds to each post.
Rope, for distance weight, 20 feet for each automatic anchor.
Rope for heaving lines, 1,200 feet to each post.
Rope for lashings, 1,200 feet to each post.
Rope, marline-covered, according to project.
Rope, raising, 50 per cent more than of mooring rope.
Rope, wire mooring, according to project.
Rosettes, 24 to each post.
Ruberine, 5 gallons to each post.
Sandpaper, 48 sheets to each post.
Sapolio, 10 cakes to each post.
Screws, brass, assorted sizes, 1 gross when required.
Screws, iron, assorted sizes, 1 gross when required.
Screws, set, for compound plugs, 1 extra set for each compound plug.
Screws, set, for mine transformers, 1 extra set
for each mine transformer.
Shellac for insulation purposes, 5 pounds to each post.
Soap, 25 cakes to each post.
Sockets, lamp, 12 to each casemate.
Solder, wire, 5 pounds to each post.
Staples, large, 20 pounds to each post.
Staples, small, 1 pound to each post.
Suspensions, galvanometer, lower, 3 to each insulation testing set.
Suspensions, galvanometer, upper, 6 to each insulation testing set.
Tags, brass, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tags, lead, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tags, linen, 50 per group of 19 mines.
Tape, protective, 5 pounds to each 19 mines.
Tape, rubber, 5 pounds to each 19 mines.
Tinfoil, 1 pound to each 19 mines.
Towelling, 10 yards to each post.
Tubes, porcelain, 12 to each post.
Turpentine, as required.
Twine, 3 pounds to each 19 mines.
Varnish, asphaltum, as required.
Varnish, spar, as required.
Washers, brass, 100 to each 19 mines.
Washers, lead, 1 extra set for each compound plug.
Waste, cotton, 50 pounds to each post.
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