CHANGES IN NAVY REGULATIONS AND NAVAL INSTRUCTIONS NO. 13.

NAVY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., July 30, 1919.

The following changes in Navy Regulations and Naval Instructions shall be made upon receipt of this order.

JOSEPHUS DANIELS,

Secretary of the Navy.

Make the following changes in ink:

INDEX.

Page 266. Under "Prisoners, master-at-arms to muster" change reference to I 2401 (8).

NAVY REGULATIONS.

ART. 1113(1). In ninth line change “three" to "four" in two places and in twelfth line change "fifteen" to seventeen."

ABT. 183. In paragraph (4) strike out armor and projectile plants at Charleston, W. Va." and insert in lieu thereof Naval ordnance plant, South Charleston, W. Va."

Make the same change in article 4071.

ABT. 2404. Insert as paragraph (5): “In thick weather, or when in doubt as to position, the navigator will make use of available radio compass shore stations for assisting in the determination of the ship's position." ART. 4427. Strike out last sentence of paragraph (29).

NAVAL INSTRUCTIONS.

ART. 1603. In second line of paragraph (3) insert "and radio compasses after "battle compasses," and strike out word "and" after " maneuvering." ART. 2701. In second line of paragraph (1) strike out the word "line.” Change first two lines of paragraph (2) to read as follows: "The officers composing this board."

ART. 4746. Fourth and fifth lines; and Art. 4747 (b), sixth line, change "appropriation purchases" to "used material."

ABT. 4803 (5). In lines 4 and 5 strike out "heading (under Title A and for engineering work under Titles D and K)."

Arr. 4804 (4). In line 7 change comma after word "number" to period and strike out remainder of paragraph.

ABT. 4804 (5) (b). In line 2 change comma after the word "number" to period and strike out remainder of paragraph.

ART. 4821(5). Change first sentence to read as follows: "The used material account shall comprise all stores condemned for sale and all used material and scrap which is fit for Government purposes, no matter what its source, except as provided in paragraph 2."

ART. 5319. Add the following sentence: The name of the officer shall also be typewritten or stamped."

AFT. 5312(19). In eighth line change "M. C." to "U. S. M. C."

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WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1919

ARTICLES FOR THE. GOVERNMENT OF THE NAVY OF THE
UNITED STATES.1

[Sec. 1624 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as affected by the act of Mar. 3, 1899, sec. 13, and by the acts of May 13, 1908, Feb. 16, 1909, and Aug. 22, 1912.]

The Navy of the United States shall be governed by the following articles:

Commanders

correct.

1. The commanders of all fleets, squadrons, naval stations, and vessels belonging to the Navy are required to show in themselves to supervise and a good example of virtue, honor, patriotism, and subordination; to be vigilant in inspecting the conduct of all persons who are placed under their command; to guard against and suppress all dissolute and immoral practices, and to correct, according to the laws and regulations of the Navy, all persons who are guilty of them; and any such commander who offends against this article shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

2. The commanders of vessels and naval stations to which chaplains are attached shall cause divine service to be performed on Sunday, whenever the weather and other circumstances allow it to be done; and it is earnestly recommended to all officers, seamen, and others in the naval service diligently to attend at every performance of the worship of Almighty God.

Divine service.

Irreverent be

3. Any irreverent or unbecoming behavior during divine service shall be punished as a general or summary court-martial may havior. direct.

Death sen

4. The punishment of death, or such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge, may be inflicted on any person in the tence. naval service

(1) Who makes, or attempts to make, or unites with any mutiny or mutinous assembly, or, being witness to or present at any mutiny, does not do his utmost to suppress it; or, knowing of any mutinous assembly or of any intended mutiny, does not immediately communicate his knowledge to his superior or commanding officer;

(2) Or disobeys the lawful orders of his superior officer; (3) Or strikes or assaults, or attempts or threatens to strike or assault, his superior officer while in the execution of the duties of his office;

Mutiny.

Disobedience. Striking superior officer.

Intercourse

(4) Or gives any intelligence to, or holds or entertains any intercourse with, an enemy or rebel, without leave from the Presi- with enemy. dent, the Secretary of the Navy, the commander in chief of the fleet, the commander of the squadron, or, in case of a vessel acting singly, from his commanding officer;

Messages from

(5) Or receives any message or letter from an enemy or rebel, or, being aware of the unlawful reception of such message or enemy. letter, fails to take the earliest opportunity to inform his superior

or commanding officer thereof;

The numbers of the articles in this chapter are the numbers of such articles in both the statutes and these regulations, except that article 64 is not in the law but is a regulation only.

time of war. Betraying

trust.

watch.

Sleeping on

Leaving sta

tion.

Willful strand

vessel.

(7) Or, in time of war, deserts or betrays his trust, or entices or aids others to desert or betray their trust;

(8) Or sleeps upon his watch;

(9) Or leaves his station before being regularly relieved;

(10) Or intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the ing or injury of Navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals, or improperly hazarded; or maliciously or willfully injures any vessel of the Navy, or any part of her tackle, armament, or equipment, whereby the safety of the vessel is hazarded or the lives of the crew exposed to danger;

Destruction of

(11) Or unlawfully sets on fire, or otherwise unlawfully de public property. stroys, any public property not at the time in possession of an enemy, pirate, or rebel;

Striking flag or yielding.

(12) Or strikes or attempts to strike the flag to an enemy or rebel, without proper authority, or, when engaged in battle, treacherously yields or pusillanimously cries for quarter; Cowardice In (13) Or, in time of battle, displays cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, or withdraws from or keeps out of danger to which he should expose himself.

battle.

Deserting duty in battle. Neglecting orders for battle.

Neglecting to clear for action.

Neglecting to Join in battle.

(14) Or, in time of battle, deserts his duty or station, or entices others to do so;

Failing to en courage others. Failing to seek encounter.

(15) Or does not properly observe the orders of his commanding officer, and use his utmost exertions to carry them into execution, when ordered to prepare for or join in, or when actually engaged in battle, or while in sight of an enemy;

Failing to afford relief.

Spies.

Murder.

(16) Or, being in command of a fleet, squadron, or vessel acting singly, neglects, when an engagement is probable, or when an armed vessel of an enemy or rebel is in sight, to prepare and clear his ship or ships for action;

(17) Or does not, upon signal for battle, use his utmost exertions to join in battle;

(18) Or fails to encourage, in his own person, his inferior officers and men to fight courageously;

(19) Or does not do his utmost to overtake and capture or destroy any vessel which it is his duty to encounter;

(20) Or does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to vessels belonging to the United States or their allies when engaged in battle.

5. All persons who, in time of war, or of rebellion against the supreme authority of the United States, come or are found in the capacity of spies, or who bring or deliver any seducing letter or message from an enemy or rebel, or endeavor to corrupt any per son in the Navy to betray his trust, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge.

6. If any person belonging to any public vessel of the United States commits the crime of murder without the territorial jurisdiction thereof, he may be tried by court-martial and punished with death.

Imprisonment 7. A naval court-martial may adjudge the punishment of imin penitentiary. prisonment for life, or for a stated term, at hard labor, in any case where it is authorized to adjudge the punishment of death: and such sentences of imprisonment and hard labor may be carried into execution in any prison or penitentiary under the control of the United States, or which the United States may be allowed by the legislature of any State to use; and persons so imprisoned in the prison or penitentiary of any State or Territory shall be subject, in all respects, to the same discipline and treatment as convicts sentenced by the courts of the State or Territory in which the same may be situated.

8. Such punishment as a court-martial may adjudge may be inflicted on any person in the Navy

gambling, fraud, theft, or any other scandalous conduct tending to
the destruction of good morals;

(2) Or is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreat-
ment of, any person subject to his orders;

(3) Or quarrels with, strikes, or assaults, or uses provoking or reproachful words, gestures, or menaces toward, any person in the Navy;

(4) Or endeavors to foment quarrels between other persons in the Navy;

falsehood, etc.

Cruelty.

Quarreling.

Fomenting

quarrels.

(5) Or sends or accepts a challenge to fight a duel or acts as Duels. a second in a duel;

(6) Or treats his superior officer with contempt, or is disre- Contempt of spectful to him in language or deportment, while in the execution superior officer. of his office;

(7) Or joins in or abets any combination to weaken the lawful authority of, or lessen the respect due to, his commanding officer; (8) Or utters any seditious or mutinous words;

(9) Or is negligent or careless in obeying orders, or culpably inefficient in the performance of duty;

(10) Or does not use his best exertions to prevent the unlawful destruction of public property by others;

(11) Or through inattention or negligence suffers any vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon a rock or shoal, or hazarded;

Combinations omcer. against superior Mutinous words.

Neglect of or.

ders.

Preventing destruction of prop

erty.

(12) Or, when attached to any vessel appointed as convoy to any merchant or other vessels, fails diligently to perform his ice. duty, or demands or exacts any compensation for his services, or maltreats the officers or crews of such merchant or other. vessels;

(13) Or takes, receives, or permits to be received, on board the vessel to which he is attached, any goods or merchandise, for freight, sale, or traffic, except gold, silver, or jewels, for freight or safe-keeping; or demands or receives any compensation for the receipt or transportation of any other article than gold, silver, or jewels, without authority from the President or Secretary of the Navy;

(14) Or knowingly makes or signs, or aids, abets, directs, or procures the making or signing of, any false muster;

Stranding.

Convoy serv

Receiving freight, etc.

False muster.

Waste of prop.

(15) Or wastes any ammunition, provisions, or other public property, or, having power to prevent it, knowingly permits such erty. waste;

(16) Or, when on shore, plunders, abuses, or maltreats any Inhabitant, or injures his property in any way;

Plundering.

(17) Or refuses, or fails to use his utmost exertions to detect, apprehend, and bring to punishment all offenders, or to aid all offenders. persons appointed for that purpose.

(18) Or, when rated or acting as master-at-arms, refuses to receive such prisoners as may be committed to his charge, or, having received them, suffers them to escape, or dismisses them without orders from the proper authority;

(19) Or is absent from his station or duty without leave, or after his leave has expired;

(20) Or violates or refuses obedience to any lawful general order or regulation issued by the Secretary of the Navy. (21) Or, in time of peace, deserts or attempts to desert, or aids and entices others to desert;

Apprehending

Receiving pris.

oners.

Absence without leave.

Violating or. ders or regulations.

Desertion in time of peace. Harboring de

(22) Or receives or entertains any deserter from any other vessel of the Navy, knowing him to be such, and does not, with all serters. convenient speed, give notice of such deserter to the commander of the vessel to which he belongs, or to the commander-in-chief, or to the commander of the squadron.