(a) As soon as practicable after he assumes command.
(b) As soon as Practicable after ship joins his command.
(c) Annually from the date of such first inspection
(d) Immediately before her departure from his command.
Establishments will be inspected as at (a) and (c).
(2) If he should be prevented from carrying out a personal inspection, he shall depute this duty to an officer under his orders, senior to the Captain of the ship to be inspected, who shall render to him the Report of Inspection.
(3) In addition to these periodical musters and inspections, he will arrange for other intermediate musters or inspections, or musters only, when he deems it necessary, whether the ships are present or on detached service.
(4) Annual inspections will be reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff on forms IN 162 only in respect of those Indian Naval Ships, air squadrons and establishments as specified and promulgated by him from time to time. Inspection Reports in respect of others are to be scrutinised by the concerned Administrative Authorities and only brief reports highlighting the salient points are to be forwarded to Naval Headquarters.
(5) He shall be assisted by the senior engineer, electrical, logistics, education and medical officers and by the specialist executive officers on his staff who will sign the appropriate forms of the annual inspection reports.
(6) The submission of reports of Inspection under sub-regulation 1 (a),(b) and
(d) is optional, but when rendered should be in the form of a brief report. The intermediate inspections referred to in sub-regulations (3) will not be reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff, unless for particular reason s it is considered expedient to do so.
0216. Special Instructions for Inspections: (1) The Inspecting officer shall take into consideration the length of time the ship has been in commission and in his report shall refer to anything else, such as any particular Service on which the ship may have been engaged, which has influenced his judgement of her state. He is authorised to enquire into any subject which bears upon her order, discipline, and efficiency or upon the proper observance by all on board of the regulations and customs of the service; any opinion he may express as to her proficiency in any Particular may be based on previous observation and knowledge. He shall inspect the material state of the hull, machinery, armament and other equipment and the means taken to prevent deterioration, and shall express his personal opinion about this.
(2) The books and documents listed in the report of Inspection forms will be produced at inspections and will be inspected as laid down therein. The Inspecting officer shall satisfy himself that logs, documents, books, confidential books, and accounts are kept as prescribed, and that the regulations about officers mess and wine bills and the administration of all funds are strictly observed.
(3) He shall make strict enquiry as to the observance of the regulations for the maintenance of water tight integrity and shall satisfy himself that the Damage Control Organisation is efficient.
(4) He shall satisfy himself that the Captain, and the Second-in-Command in destroyers and smaller ships, and the Captain, the Second-in-Command, the Signal Communication officer and the officer in charge of confidential books in larger ships, understand all the recognition signals which have been issued for use in the Indian Navy.
(5) Suggestions in the Inspection report for improvements which involve alterations and additions will be accompanied by a statement that they have either already been submitted, or will be submitted at the next opportunity, in accordance with chapter 44 and orders issued by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time.
(6) He shall take care to enquire into any complaints that may have been made in case the subject should not already have investigated.
0217. (1) He shall frequently exercise the ships in battle and other exercises. If at any time a ship displays a marked degree of excellence in any department, the name of any officer especially commendable shall be reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff. If a ship obtains markedly poor results an enquiry shall be held into the circumstances, at which the method of training employed and the conditions under which the practice was carried out shall be fully investigated. The report, with the minutes of the evidence and his remarks on the conclusions, will, at his discretion be forwarded to the Chief of the Naval Staff.
(2) He shall superintend with great attention all the ships of the force or squadron which are put under his orders; he shall see that their crew are properly disciplined that all orders and regulations are punctually attended to and obeyed and that the stores are kept as complete, and the ships are in every respect as fit for service, as circumstances will admit.
(3) He shall receive all reports of the state of the ships and of their defects, applications for repair and refitting and demands for stores. Being responsible to the Chief of the Naval Staff for the good order, discipline, and efficiency of the force or squadron which he commands, he shall receive representations of the state of their crew or of the misconduct of their officers or sailors.
0218. Conduct between Senior and Junior Officer. (1) If an officer in command of one or more of the Indian Naval Ships should meet with a Senior Officer, and the state of the weather admits, he shall wait on such Senior Officer to show all the orders under which he is acting and shall inform him of the state and condition of the ship under his orders.
(2)A Senior Officer shall not require a junior officer to show him any secret orders, which relate to a special mission nor shall he divert him from his service, take him under his command, or interfere with the orders he may have received. Should however, any pressing exigency of the public service require the senior officer to depart from these injunctions, and his measures have tended to delay the junior officer, he sall allow him to proceed in execution of his orders as soon as possible, if it is still advisable that they should be carried out. He should lose no time in acquainting the Chief of the Naval Staff through Administrative Authority with what he has done, and, if the ship or ships so diverted belong to another Officers command, he shall inform that officer also without delay.
0219. Ships on Special Duties. (1) Although surveying ships and other ships ordered by the Chief of the Naval Staff to carry out special duties may be placed under the orders of the Administrative Authority of the area in which they happen to be operating, their programmes, and the directions for their movements will, as a rule, be ordered by the Chief of the Naval Staff. The surveying ships and ships on special duties, when so employed, shall not be interrupted in their work or required to confirm to the motions of the Senior Officer present.
(2) Should it be necessary in pressing circumstances to divert them from their special duties, or to interfere with their establishments, full particulars of change shall at one be reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff by the Senior Officer so acting except as provided in the Navy orders issued from time to time.
0220. Senior Officer at Sea. (1) When at sea, the Senior Officer shall be particularly attentive in observing that the ship which carried his flag, broad pendant or pendant, and all the ships under his orders, preserve very correctly their station preserve very correctly their station in whatever formation the fleet may be; and when any evolution is being performed he shall he be attentive to the manner in which the ships under his orders carry it out, always correcting immediately every apparent want of activity and exertion and every mistake or appearance of neglect.
(2) He may correct the mistake or negligence of a ship in another division or sub-division whenever it is probable that, from their relative situations, the ship cannot distinctly be seen by the officer commanding the division to which she belongs, or whenever being in the presence of an enemy, the officer commanding the division or sub-division, whatever may be his situation, does not himself immediately correct such mistake or negligence.
0221. Sailing Order and Speed of Ships. (1) The Chief of the Naval Staff shall appoint sailing authorities for each port. The sailing authority shall be responsible for issuing a sailing order on each occasion of ordering a ship to sea. The sailing order will be issued in accordance with orders laid down by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time. Amongst other directions, the sailing authority will give a direction to the Captain, generally or specifically, at what speed of advance the service will be performed, according to circumstances.
(2) Except when exercising or when for other reasons a high speed is obligatory, the most economical speed of each squadron or ship will be employed when making passage from port to port, or between harbour and exercise area. When, however, the sailing authority considers that the saving of fuel from proceeding at the most economical speed would be offset by spending inconvenient lengths of time on passage or in reaching exercise areas, he may order ships to proceed at whatever speed is in the best interests of the service, subject to maximum which will be promulgated in orders by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time
0222. Economy of Fuel. The Administrative Authority or the Senior Officer shall at all times be careful to economise the consumption of fuel, sio far as may be consistent with the service on which he is engaged; and, as a rule, all appliances for economising fuel which are fitted to each particular ships shall be utilised.
0223. Accidents and Serious Defects. (1) When any accident takes place which causes entire or partial disablement of a ship for service, or when any serious defect is discovered in the hull, armament, machinery, or boilers, the cause of which is not clear, the Senior Officer present shall direct an enquiry to be held at once as to the cause of the accident or defect; and a full report with evidence, finding, sketches, and photographs where possible, shall be forwarded to the Chief of the Naval Staff.
Pending the inquiry, then defective parts shall, if it can be done without inconvenience to the service, be left as nearly as possible in the condition in which they were found immediately after the accident or the defect was discovered.
(2) All aircraft accidents shall be investigated and reported in accordance with regulations for the Naval Air Arm.
(3) All accidents affecting the readiness for sea of any of the ships or vessels under the orders of the Administrative Authority, or Senior Officer, or which involve, or are considered likely to involve any disciplinary action by the Chief of the Naval Staff in regard to an officer, shall be reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff with an expression of his opinion where necessary, whether or not an inquiry is held.
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0225. Pilotage of Merchant Vessels. When he considers it necessary or advisable to order a Naval officer either to take charge as a pilot, or to advise the Master of a Chartered or other vessel of the Mercantile Marine, he shall bear in mind that an order to this effect may involve the acceptance by the Government of responsibility in the event of collision or other damage. A Naval officer shall not be sent as pilot or adviser to the master in such a vessel unless the circumstances of the case justify the acceptance of this responsibility.
0226. Loan of Vessels and Craft. Vessels and craft belonging to the Indian Navy shall not be lent to private persons, State Governments or other departments of the Government, without the sanction of the Government.
0227. Hiring wharves. He shall only sanction the hiring of wharves or warehouses when absolutely necessary, and he will be careful to set out the manner and period their use in the order for so doing.