This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...fuze. Loaded shells are always to be stowed in the shell-rooms, with the exception of those required to be placed on the different decks. Empty shells should be stowed in the lockers provided for them, and kept perfectly dry; the fuzes remaining packed in their cases. After an expenditure of shells, the spare shells should be fitted for service, and placed in the empty boxes, to keep the shell-rooms at all times complete. The time fuze-shell is to be pushed, not rammed home; and if there is much motion, a grummet wad is to be used. The time fuzes should be bored into at the hole corresponding-to the time of flight, and screwed into the shells in some secure place appropriated for the purpose, not in the shell-room, and as far from the magazine entrance as possible; this precaution also applies to Jilling shells. In filling, care should be taken that the end of the funnel passes below the screw in the tap, to prevent any grains of powder from entering it; but should they do so, they must be brushed out carefully. The proper bursting charge having been put into the shell, the fuze being first well brushed and luted, is then to be screwed in, and care should be taken to place the small parchment ring under the head of it, or something of a similar nature, to guard against accident; the shells are then to be placed fuze downwards in the boxes, ready for use, and removed at once to the shell-room. Shells for ships are fitted with wooden bottoms; should the bottoms come off, a grummet of 2J-inch rope for the bottom of a shell, snaked to a grummet of good two-yarn nettle-stuff, has been found to steady the shell, and to prevent it from being turned in setting home. It is necessary to exercise filing shells, but the number should not exceed of...