peactime recovery manuever.
a.when in column.
the ship from which the man fall overbord shall stop engines temporarity and hold course unless it is the rear ship of the of the column in which case it shall maneuver as required to recover the man.
2.ship ahead of the one losing the man stand on at the prescribed speed and hold course.
3.ship astern of the one losing the man stop engines and maneuver as nescessary to keep clear by hauling out of line odd numbered ship. counting from the leading ship of the column turning to starbord and even numbered ship turn to Port. then all ship resume previous course abd speed.
a.ship in position to recover the man should do so informing other ship of her intention.
0131.OTC
the OTC is the senior officer present or the officer to whom delegated command is given.
0131.plain text.
when appropriate design followed by letters and numeral
must be used to indicated that such a group is to be interpreted literally and not as a code group.words may be spelled out within the text of the signal to complete or modify the meaning .pland indicater point number berths and so forth may also be signalled without conflicting with the signal groups .
0133.executive methode.
a message sent by executive method will carry the warning proword execute to follow immediately following the call the signal of execution will be sent later in form standby execute.the latter word being the executive signal.
e.g. B4 transmits.
A2 this is B4 execute to follow break formation one break over.
all station respond in alphabetical order.