For all chambered guns except those of the Dahlgren pattern, the rammers will be adapted to the chamber, but, as above described, will answer equally well for the shot and selvagee wad. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
Standing rigging, when stranded or shot away, is most readily and effectually secured for the moment by using stoppers composed of two small dead-eyes, fitted with double selvagee tails and lanyards, of sizes suitable to the rigging, whether lower or topmast. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
The grommet thus formed is marled like a selvagee strap, and a section of about an inch is taken out of it, in order to make the wad, when swelled by dampness, enter the bore of the gun readily. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
Shell or shotmen provide a sufficient supply of selvagee and six junk-wads, and supply the racks around the hatchways with shot from the lockers as required. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
When loading with shot a selvagee wad is placed over it. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
W. W.DS, hard, not to be used in firing salutes 1; 7; 26 selvagee, to be placed over shot 1; 75; 264 over elongated projectiles, prohibited 1; 103; 397 selvagee, a description of 3; 68; 214 ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
The face of the rammer is hollowed, so as to embrace the front of the ball and press the selvagee wad home in its place. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
CAPTAIN assists in casting loose and middling breeching; takes off and places amidships sight-covers, selvagee straps, and toggles; handles quoin; provides thumbstalls, priming-wires, and boring-bit, and equips himself with the first two; clears lock-string and lays it in a loose coil round the lock, convenient for use, and buckles on his waist-belt furnished as 1st Captain's. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
Ten selvagee wads for shot and shell | On the breast-piece of the carriage, guns | strung on a pin. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
No wad is required over a shell, but a selvagee wad may be used in heavy rolling. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
A part -- half or a third -- of a selvagee wad, is equally efficient in holding the shot in place. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
When the ring is removed the worm will be equally efficient in drawing the selvagee wad. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
A "Flemish Eye" (Fig. 90) is an eye made in a manner much like that employed in forming the selvagee strap. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The gun's crew being assembled at Quarters, remove the pin and chock from the cascabel, into the jaws of which place a selvagee strap; hook the double block of the train-tackle into the housing-bolt over the port, and its single block into the selvagee strap; remove the cap-squares, and place a round block of wood on the sill of the port, high enough to let the chase bear on it when slightly depressed; raise the breech as much as possible, without lifting the gun out of the carriage. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
The GUN CAPTAIN commands, sees his gun cleared and cast loose, portlid unbarred ready for tricing up, or half ports taken out; side and train tackles hooked, the side-tackle to the side training-bolt, and the train-tackle to the eye-bolt in the deck in the rear of the gun; casts loose and middles breeching and places selvagee straps and toggles amidships; takes off lock-cover, and hands it to the train-tackleman, who places it amidships; buckles on his waist-belt ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
The Gun Captain, assisted by the 2d Captain, hauls the breeching through the jaws of the cascabel to the left side of the gun, forming with the bight a turn over the breech and cylinder, taking care to keep the breeching well clear of the elevating screw to prevent chafe, and securing the parts on each side with selvagees and heavers; or, if this should interfere with the breech-sight, by crossing the breeching at the side and securing it with selvagee straps and toggles. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)
