PREPARATIONS FOR SAILING 45 



the number of guns will exceed by one the number of points. If we are to go to the 

 starboard the gun will be every twenty-one [two?] minutes, if to the port every three 

 minutes. If, in thick weather, land or a reef should be sighted, make the same 

 signals which the Captain Commander would make in such a case, that is, lower the 

 yards and fire four guns. If, may God guard us from such a misfortune, you should 

 run aground, fire one gun after another so that we may put about or anchor, and 

 from the other ship acknowledgment should be made by four guns. 



Signals To Be Made at Night While Under Sail 



If it should be necessary to back the yards against the wind, then two lanterns 

 will be hung on the flagstaff, one under the other, and one gun will be fired. If with 

 the wind, one lantern will be hung on the gaff and the other on the flagstaff, and one 

 gun will be fired. You should also have lanterns at these places and keep them 

 there until we take ours down. That ship should put about first which is under the 

 wind, and care should be taken that at nighttime we do not run into each other. 



If in bad weather it should be necessary to shorten sail and lay to, one lantern 

 will be hung at the mainmast and another at the foreshrouds at the same height 

 and ion the same side, and two guns will be given. At the same time you should 

 hang out lights from the same places. 



If after drifting for a time we decide to make sail again, three lights will be hung 

 from the mainshrouds at the same height, followed by two guns. You should hang 

 your lanterns in the same place, and do not take them down until ours are down. 



If in sailing with a fair wind it is necessary to sail close-hauled: if on starboard 

 tack, that is to say the sails on the port side, two lanterns will be hung from the fore- 

 shrouds accompanied by four guns; if on port tack, that is to say sails on the star- 

 board side, six guns will be fired. You should put out two lanterns at the same place. 



If with a good wind at night we should be sailing free or with the wind on the 

 quarter and it should be decided to change the course and if we are in the lead, we 

 will hang out from the flagstaff as many lanterns, one under the other, as the num- 

 ber of points in the course to be changed. If two guns are fired, change the course 

 as many points to starboard as there are lanterns, if three guns are fired change 

 the same number of points to port. Should you be in the lead the signals as above 

 will be made from the jack staff, accompanied by guns. 



Signals To Be Made at Night While Mooring Ship, Weighing, or 

 Coming to Anchor 



If at night it should seem best to anchor, three guns will be fired at short intervals 

 apart, and two lanterns will be hung in the mainshrouds. You should then hang 

 out one lantern from the same place. If the stream anchor is to go down, one light 

 will hang from the jack staff while the guns are being fired. In that case you are to 

 signal with a light from the foreshrouds and not from the mainshrouds. 



To moor, or stand on two anchors, one light will be displayed from the mainmast 

 and another from the foremast, and one gun will be fired. You are to show a light 

 from the mainshrouds. 



If at night it is necessary to raise one anchor, three lights will be shown from the 

 main-topmast shrouds, higher than the light in the main-topsail, accompanied by 

 two guns. You should hang out a light on the gaflf. 



