Attention pre Ing honors.

SECTION 4.-HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS IN GENERAL. 1151. Before rendering honors to passing ships or commanding officers above the rank of lieutenant "attention" shall be sounded vious to render (where not herein excepted), upon which every one in sight on deck shall stand at attention facing toward the ship or person saluted, until "carry on" is sounded.

Vessels of and

1152. (1) Vessels of the third rate or above, except auxiliaries, passing close aboard shall exchange salutes by the guard of the above third rate. day presenting arms, the band playing the national anthem, officers and men above decks at attention and saluting at the end of the music. When no band is present the hand salute shall be made when abreast the other ship's colors. If one of the vessels is a flagship, the salute is the same, since it is to the national ensign that the honors are rendered. The same salute will be made to all foreign men-of-war, even though smaller than a third rate. Article R 1159.

(2) Vessels under third rate and auxiliaries flying a pennant shall salute and be saluted by other ships by officers and men being called to attention by bugle and saluting with the hand.

1153. By "close aboard" is meant within 600 yards for passing ships, 400 yards for passing officers. For high personages and foreign ships the term shall be interpreted liberally, and in any case of doubt the officer responsible for taking action shall be careful not to render less honor than may be due.

1154. The rendering of honors shall take place while the ships are overlapping, sounding "attention" when the jack staff of one vessel passes the jack staff or flagstaff of the other and "carry on" when the quarter-deck of one vessel has passed the quarterdeck of the other. Honors to an officer shall be rendered while he is abreast the quarter-deck, sounding "carry on" when the honors have been completed and acknowledged. When a guard is paraded arms shall be presented when "attention" sounds and brought to the order at "carry on."

Close aboard.

Honors rendered while overlapping.

Flag officer

flag flying the same honors shall be rendered as if he were com- passing. 1155. To a flag officer passing in a boat close aboard with his ing on board (Art. R 1126 (4)), but with the guard of the day instead of the full guard. Officers and men on deck shall salute at the first flourish, remaining at hand salute until the end of the last flourish. When the passing officer is a commanding officer shall be sounded on the bugle, officers and petty officers on watch, above the grade of lieutenant, with his pennant flying, "attention sentries, and boat keepers saluting, others on deck standing at when the passing officer is a chief of staff with pennant flying. attention. The honors prescribed in this article shall be rendered

1156. Full honors, as specified in the preceding article, shall not be rendered to a flag or commanding officer who passes or comes alongside without his flag or pennant flying. In such case the salute in passing shall be the same as for any commissioned officer, namely, boat keepers, sentries, and others who observe the boat, salute. If a flag or commanding officer comes on board without flag or pennant flying, only side honors shall be given, unless he should request full honors on departure. All persons on the quarter-deck shall stand at attention, by command without bugle. 1157. In rendering personal honors, when the guard presents Personal hon. In view, shall salute with the right hand, so remaining until the arms, officers in uniform and men not in formation, on deck and" end of ruffles and flourishes, or, if none, until "order arms." 1158. When any of the crew are paraded in rendering honors they shall salute only by command.

ors.

be

tween ships dur-
ing maneuvers

1159. No honors other than "attention" on the bugle shall be Honors rendered between vessels while they are engaged in maneuvers or evolutions. When two or more ships are in company, whether or evolutions. at anchor or underway, coming to anchor or getting underway, they shall be considered as a part of the same formation, and as

(121 B)

In case of a ship or ships joining such formation, honors shall
not be rendered unless such ship or ships have been or are on de-
tached duty. The term "detached duty" in this case does not
apply to a ship or ships temporarily out of formation, but only
to ships which, by order of competent authority, have been in
some port other than the rendezvous of the division, squadron, or
fleet to which they may belong; or on duty which has kept them
away from their immediate division, squadron, or fleet for a
period of more than forty-eight hours. A ship is not considered
as on detached duty when she leaves the formation, whether
underway or at anchor, for target practice, coaling in the imme-
diate vicinity, or for similar duty. Ships of divisions or squad-
rons of the fleet getting underway or coming to anchor at about
the same time, or in obedience to the same signal, shall be con-
sidered as engaged in evolutions, and no honors, other than "at-
tention" on the bugle, shall be rendered as they pass each other.
(R 157, par. 6.) Vessels engaged in tactical evolutions outside of
port shall not exchange any salutes whatever.

Stations when getting underway or coming to anchor.

Table of hon

ors.

1160. When all hands are called for getting underway in port or coming to anchor, all men not specially stationed shall fall in at quarters in charge of their division officers. The full guard and band and, on board the ship of the senior officer present, the crews of the saluting guns, shall form prepared to render or return honors.

1161. The rendering of honors shall be so regulated as not to keep officers and men at attention longer than necessary to make the salute distinctly recognizable.

1162. The following is a tabular statement of salutes to be rendered under the foregoing instructions:

(a) Passing or being passed by a
foreign man-of-war, United States
man-of-war, with or without per-
sonal flag flying, whether member
of fleet, squadron, or division, or
not, if she has been or is on de-
tached duty.

(b) Passing or being passed by vés

sel of own formation or a United
States vessel under third rate or
auxiliary flying a pennant.
(c) Flag officer, with flag flying,
comes on board.

(d) Flag officer, in a boat, passes
close aboard with flag flying.

(e) Flag officer, in uniform, with
no flag flying, comes on board.

(f) Flag officer, in a boat, passes
close aboard without flag flying,
whether in uniform or not.
(g) Commanding officer, of or above
rank of lieutenant commander,
passes close aboard with pennant
flying.

(h) Commanding officer, of or above
rank of lieutenant commander,
with pennant flying, comes on
board.

(i) Commanding officer, of or above
rank of lieutenant commander,
comes on board, no pennant fly-
ing.

(j) All officers, not specified, com-
ing on board in uniform.

Guard of the day and band; atten tion by bugle; national air. Hand salute at end of national air.

(k) All officers not specified above,
passing close aboard, whether in
uniform or not, or when coming
on board in civilian clothes.

Attention on bugle; hand salute.
In outside tactical evolutions,

none.

Full guard and band; attention by bugle; flourishes; march; tend side. Hand salute at command "present arms," and remain at salute until end of flourishes. Guard of the day and band; attention by bugle; flourishes; march. Hand salute as in (c), Attention on quarter-deck without bugle; tend side. Hand salute while piping side as flag officer comes aboard.

No general honors: boat keepers, sentries, and others salute.

Attention by bugle; officers and petty officers on watch, boat keepers, and sentries salute: others stand at attention, Guard of the day; attention by bugle; tend side. Hand salute at command present arms," and remain at salute until command "order arms.'

Attention on quarter-deck without
bugle; tend side. Hand salute
while piping side as officer comes
aboard.
Attention near gangway without
bugle; tend side. Hand salute as
In (1).

No general honors: boat keepers,
sentries, and others salute.

cers of the deck,

1163. The officer of the deck is especially charged with giving Duties of offithe command "Attention" as regards salutes to ships and to officers and others. and officials who are entitled to salutes passing in boats. Petty officers, leading men, and others are required to give the command when boats pass near the ship with a pennant or flag flying, and the bugle call has not been obeyed by everyone in his vicinity, or the boat has not been observed by the officer of the deck.

When side honors rendered,

1164. When side honors only are rendered to a flag officer or commanding officer, officers and men on deck and in view from the gang-persons in view way shall stand at "attention," facing the gangway, and salute as the salute, etc. officer appears over the side and shall remain at the salute until the end of the pipe.

Officer of the

deck attends at the gangway. Piping the

1165. The officer of the deck shall attend at the gangway on the ar-
rival or departure of any commissioned officer or distinguished visitor.
1166. (1) On the occasion of the official reception or departure of a
civil, diplomatic, or consular official or of any commissioned officer of side.
the Navy, Army, Marine Corps, Naval Militia, or Coast Guard, the
side shall be piped. The side shall not be piped for shore boats, but
officers in them, if in uniform, shall be so saluted on reaching or leav-
ing the deck.

(2) Piping the side for officers not wearing side arms may, by order
of the commanding officer, be dispensed with, without distinction of
rank or grade, on board of the ships to which they are attached.

1167. Side boys shall attend at the side when the side is piped, as
follows, except as noted in (e) below:

(a) For officials saluted with fifteen or more guns, eight.
(b) For officials saluted with eleven or thirteen guns, six.

(c) For other officers of and above the rank of commander and for
officials entitled to corresponding honors, four.

(d) For other commissioned officers of the Navy or Marine Corps and officials entitled to corresponding honors, two.

Side boys.

C. N. R. 4.

Side honors

1168. (1) All honors, except as prescribed in article R 1165 and
such as social courtesy may demand, shall be dispensed with at the dispensed with.
reception or departure of all officers under the following circumstances:
(a) When they are in plain clothes.

(6) When the departure or reception takes place after sunset and
before 8 a. m. (except that for foreign officers the side shall be piped).
(e) During the meal hours of the crew, for officers of the United
States Navy or Marine Corps.

officers of the United States Navy or Marine Corps.

(d) When coaling ship or when exercising at battle stations, for

force, of 125 men or less the attendance of side boys for officers of the
(e) On board ships having a complement, exclusive of the engineer
United States Navy shall be required on occasions of ceremony, but
shall not

for officers of the United States Army or of foreign services, side boys
shall be in attendance between 8 a. m. and sunset.

States ships or for officers of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, or
(2) The guard and band shall not be paraded on Sundays for United

when going or coming over the side. All sentries on the upper decks"
1169. Sentries at the gangways shall salute all officers in uniform.
or in view from outside, shall salute all commissioned officers passing

them close aboard, in boats or otherwise.

C. N. R. 9.

Marine guard and band not paraded.

Sentries to salute.

Use of gang.

1170. The starboard gangways shall be used by all commissioned
persons. If the construction of the ship or other circumstances make
officers and their visitors; the port gangways shall be used by all other ways.
a change in this rule expedient, the change may be made at the discre-

tion of the commanding officer.