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ARTILLERY IN COAST DEFENCE. 
tate the supply of ammunition and stores, each group has a letter and 
symbol allotted to it, the letters commencing with the group on the 
right of the work, and the guns are numbered from the right in each 
group. Each gun is marked with its group symbol and letter, and its 
number in the group. Every store, side-arm shed, lift, speaking tube, 
&c., which is allotted to the service of a group is marked with the symbol 
and letter, and if to a particular gun or guns with their group numbers 
in addition ; every article belonging to a gun should be marked or be 
placed under a label with the symbol and number on it. The route 
which ammunition should follow should be shown by arrows, accom¬ 
panied by the same marks, also the way to side-arm sheds, &c. 
The various details are paraded at the alarm post in the formation best 
suited to the ground, the gun detachments being told off previously 
to marching off. The ammunition detail should be first moved off, 
then the Fort Commander's staff, lastly, the group details in succes¬ 
sion. This is because the ammunition detail will take the longest 
time to get ready, as some of them will have to change into magazine 
clothing. The staff will have to get their instruments ready, and all 
this must be done before the guns can be fired. When details are 
inarched into works with which they are not acquainted, guides must 
be detailed from the permanent staff to show them the way to their 
posts. 
Troops have sometimes to be sent by boat to man forts and cannot 
be told off beforehand, it would cause delay to wait till successive 
boat-loads had all landed before distributing the men, and in that case 
it would be found convenient to have painted on a wall at or near the 
landing place a sort of epitome of the manning table, for instance, a 
a part might read as follows :— 
(A). 
1 Officer 0 
2 9" K.M.L. 
1 Dial. 
( 5 ). 
1 Officer. 
4 10" R.M.L., &o. 
1 Dial. 
Supposing the ammunition detail to have been completed the officer 
in charge of the next boat-loads that arrived would see that two 
detachments for 9' 7 were required and a dial number, and would parade 
sufficient men for that purpose and march them into the work. The 
(A) group mark would then be chalked out, and the next officer would 
fall in his men opposite (i?) group symbol and march off as soon as he 
had sufficient men to make up the required detail, and so on. 
Previously to manning, orders would be issued as to the disposal of 
removable bulkheads, beds, bedding, and barrack furniture from case¬ 
mates ; the men's carbines and belts should be disposed in the racks 
so that each man could find his own at once should an assault render 
it necessary to resort to their use. 
Hand lamps should be provided for reading elevation and training, 
and lighted as soon as the guns are manned, care being taken at night 
that their light does not show through the ports. These lamps will 
be required in casemates even by daylight when the smoke becomes 
very thick. 
