Nos. 15 and 16 bring up and return trucks.
No. 17 calls out data received and posts it.
No. 18 notifies chief of ammunition detachment when to start and stop hoist. Repeats to him kind of projectile designated.
A. Nos. 1, 3, and 9 on right; Nos. 2, 4, and 10 on left, facing rammer.
_Note._--No. 2 commands "Ram!", and by about three separate rushes the projectile is rammed home; No. 2 giving "Home!", "Ram!", when the brass scale on rammer is about two feet from face of breech. Nos. 3 and 4 withdraw rammer.
A. Chief commands "Unload!" (gun being depressed to 0° elevation).
No. 10 passes extractor to No. 4, who withdraws cartridge.
Shot-tray being in position at the breech as in loading, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 withdraw projectile to shot-tray. It is lowered and replaced by the shot-hoist detail. Where no chain ammunition-hoist is provided the drill will be modified to meet the conditions by the battery commander.
The ammunition detachment and duties of members operating electric motors are the same as in the 12-inch disappearing-gun drill.
Q. In what particulars does the drill for the 10-inch non-disappearing gun differ from the 12-inch non-disappearing?
A. First. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 man the rammer. Second. Sponge and rammer detail is composed of No. 9 only. Third. Truck detail consists of No. 10 only. Fourth. The cartridge detail consists of four men only.
Q. Name the details into which a detachment is divided, and give posts of each.
Chief of detachment (sergeant). Two yards in rear of the carriage, facing it.
Gunner (duly qualified Sighting-platform. non-commissioned officer or private).
Range-keeper (non-commissioned On the left of the carriage, officer or private). opposite the elevation-scale.
Breech detail (two privates, In line, immediately in rear of Nos. 1 and 2). the breech, facing it, No. 1 on the right.
Elevating detail (two privates, At the elevating hand-wheels, Nos. 3 and 4). facing them, No. 3 on the right of the carriage, No. 4 on the left.
Traversing detail (two privates, In front of the traversing cranks, Nos. 5 and 6). facing from the parapet, No. 5 on the right of the carriage, No. 6 on the left.
Shot-hoist detail (four privates, Nos. 7 and 8 at the Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10). windlass-cranks, facing to the rear, No. 7 on the right of the carriage, No. 8 on the left, No. 9 opposite the shot-hoist tackle, facing the carriage, No. 10 at the foot of the steps to the carriage-platform, on the left of the carriage, facing it.