Questions to find answers to

[sharpiefan]

What does '3rd Class' mean when referring to Marines?

What exactly is a Supernumerary?

Was there some specific mark to distinguish Chatham Marines from those of other Divisions? (Black plume in the De Loutherbourg painting - Bristol Art Gallery)

What, exactly, did the OR's lace look like?

What were the verbal orders given to a sentry? I'd like to know the form the orders took for a sentry post aboard ship - what the Marine was supposed to do. "To guard my position..." etc.

The duties and role of a boy, RM - still training? Able to do certain sentry duties? Officer's steward?

Drafts between divisions - how, why, how many.

Duties of women in the barracks? Since it was mentioned in the Records of the Marines thing

What does 'DSQ' mean in a man's records?

(This list just keeps on growing!! :D)

Comments

[wayward_shadows]

With respect to the 'duties of women', I hunted down the reference from an earlier entry:

December 1783: Stonehouse Barracks taken over by Plymouth Division. First guard mounted on 5 October 1783. Order to take over barracks given by the Admiralty on 2 December 1783. Officers’ quarters short; subalterns sent in a list of those wishing to live in and those wishing to lodge out. Subalterns ordered to “double up in quarters” in 1784. Dogs not allowed in the barracks. Officers’ servants lodged in the garrets above their masters’ apartments. One Barrack-woman allowed per room. ‘They were to do their washing in the salt water tank at rest of the barracks and not with fresh water.’

[wayward_shadows]

Also. It's not an actual listing of the actual orders, but there's an entry a page or two back that details what the sentries/centinels may and may not go and/or permit in their presence. I'll dig it up after work!

[wayward_shadows]

‘Aboard a ship in port, the Marines were divided into three “guards”, or watches, on duty for a 24-hour period in uniform. The “centinels” were to challenge anyone coming alongside, to prevent liquor from being smuggled aboard, and to forbid anyone to board or leave the ship between sunset and sunrise unless with the permission of the officer of the watch.They were also to make sure there was no unnecessary noise, and that only authorized candles and fires were lit.’


They are to be employed as Centinels, and upon all other Duty and Service
on board the ship which they shall be capable of, and therein to be subject to the Directions of the Officers of the ship; but they are not to be obliged to go aloft, or to be beat or punished for not showing an inclination do so... On the other hand the Marine Officers are not to hinder nor discourage their men from applying themselves to do or learn to the duty of a seaman.


Only when giving the alarm in the case of fire was a sentry allowed to leave his post. Marine NCOs assisted the Master-at-Arms "in his duty of putting out lights and fires" and regularly patrolled the ship "against the dreadful calamity of fire". The Marine lieutenant was to look into the carpenter's, gunner's, and boatswain's stores every evening, "to be satisfied no light has been accidentally left in those places".


Also: http://hm-jollies.dreamwidth.org/4900.html#cutid1

[sharpiefan]

(You ought to get the notification from this reply at least...)

Has any of this information made it into what we currently have of Chapter Three, or wherever we've decided Duties information's going?

[wayward_shadows]

I don't... know. Maybe? Will check and edit if not. At least for those things we've actually got information about. Hurr.