REGULATIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, 1862.
CHAPTER 1.
RATES OF VESSELS OF THE NAVY.
Article 1.
The rates and classification of vessels of the Navy shall be as follows:
1st. Vessels having complements of, or over five hundred persons.
2nd. Vessels, the established complement of which exceed two hundred and are less than five hundred persons.
3rd. Vessels, the established complement of which are not less than seventy-five, and not more than two hundred persons.
4th. All other vessels having established complements not exceeding seventy-five persons.
Article 2.
Appropriate
commands for captains, commanders, and lieutenants.
The appropriate commands for captains are vessels of the first and second rates; for commanders, vessels of the third rate; and for lieutenants, vessels of the fourth rate. Commands will be assigned accordingly, unless special circumstances should, in the opinion of the department, require a different arrangement.
Article 3.
Table of
complements to be established by the Secretary of the Navy.
The table of complements, as established from time to time by the Navy Department, shall regulate the number and class of officers, seamen, and others who shall constitute the complement of each class of vessel.
Article 4.
When more officers are appointed than specified in complement table, to be borne as supernumeraries.
When the department shall think proper to order a greater number of officers to any vessel than the number specified in the table of complements, they are to be borne as supernumeraries for duty.
Article 5.
Supernumeraries on board flag-ships.
The vessel in which the commander-in-chief of a fleet or squadron shall be embarked may bear as supernumeraries, by his order, one secretary, one cockswain, one officer’s steward, one officer’s cook, one seaman, and two ordinary seamen, and if not commanding in chief, the same persons, excepting the ordinary seamen; and when a captain of the fleet is allowed, he and one cockswain, and one seaman in addition, may be borne as supernumeraries, by order of the commander-in-chief.
Article 6.
How a deficiency of seamen is to be supplied. Ship not to be detained if she has nine-tenths of her complement of petty officers, &c.
In case of deficiency of “seamen,” a vessel which may be otherwise ready for service, is not to be detained if such deficiency shall not exceed one-fourth the number of seamen allowed in the table of complements, provided the deficiency can be supplied by an adequate number of “ordinary seamen;” nor shall a vessel, when under orders for service and otherwise ready, be detained if the whole number of petty officers and persons of inferior ratings on board shall be equal to nine-tenths of the whole number of such persons which may be allowed in the table of complements.
Article 7.
Commanders of vessels may supply deficiency of petty officers.
Unless otherwise specially directed, the commander of a vessel which shall leave the Confederate States with a deficiency of petty officers or persons of inferior ratings, as compared with the established complements for such vessel, may supply such deficiencies by promoting qualified persons of inferior ratings, or by regular enlistments for such time, not exceeding three years, as may be deemed best for the public interests. Blank shipping articles will be supplied to all vessels by the commandant of the navy yard or station from which they may sail.
Article 8.
Vessels not embraced in table of complements.
Vessels which are not embraced in the table of complements will have their rates and complements established by special order of the Secretary of the Navy.
Article 9.
Distressed seamen.
Commanders of squadrons or of single ships on foreign stations may receive on board their vessels distressed seamen of the Confederate States, as supernumeraries, for pay, rations, and clothing, the latter to be charged to their pay, without reference to the established complements of the ships.
Article 10.
They are to be amenable to laws, &c., of the navy.
Persons so received shall be amenable, in all respects, to the laws and regulations for the government of the navy.
Article 11.
Supernumerary officers shall take rank and do duty, unless.
An officer ordered to a ship as a supernumerary shall take rank and do duty as if belonging to the complement of the ship, unless otherwise ordered.
Article 12.
Officers as passengers not entitled to quarters.
An officer ordered for passage only, will not be entitled to quarters to the prejudice of an officer of the regular complement; and in case of battle may serve as a volunteer, in such position as the commander may choose to assign him.
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