travellers, down-hauls, sheets, &c.  Her canvas consisted of foresail, mainsail, and mizzen with a yard for each.  She carried also a jib, the casks for water and provisions, a boat’s “bittacle” (= binnacle), with compass and lamp.  She was further furnished with a couple of creeping irons for getting up the smugglers’ kegs, a grapnel, a chest of arms and ammunition, the Custom House Jack and spy-glass as already mentioned.

This vessel was rigged as a three-masted lugger with a jib.  There is no mention of a bowsprit, so either one of the oars or a boat-hook would have to be employed for that purpose.  In addition to this larger boat there was also on the station a light four-oared gig fitted with mast, yard (or “spreet"), a 7 lb. hand lead, 20 fathoms of line for the latter, as well as ballast bags to fill with stones or sand.  If the established crews were inadequate during emergency extra men could be hired.  The boats were painted twice a year, but “always to be completed before the bad weather sets in, and the colours to be assimilated as near as possible to those used by the natives and smugglers which frequent the coast which are least conspicuous.”

If any of the established boatmen intermarried with families of notorious smugglers the Inspecting Commander was to send information to the Controller-General.  Furthermore, no one was to be appointed to any station within twenty miles of his place of birth or within twenty miles of the place where he had resided for six months previous to this appointment.

The name, colour, rig, and other description of any vessel about to depart on a smuggling trip or expected to arrive with contraband goods on the coast were to be given by the Inspecting Commander both to the admirals commanding the men-of-war off the coast in that neighbourhood, to the captains and commanders of any men-of-war or Revenue cruisers, and also to the Inspecting Commander of the Preventive Water-guard on either side of him.  And in order to keep the men up to their duties the Preventive stations were to be inspected often, and at certain times by day and night.  The Inspecting Commanders were to perform their journeys on horseback and to proceed as much as possible by the sea-coast, so as to become well acquainted with the places where the smugglers resort.

The officers and boatmen were ordered to reside as near their duty as possible and not to lodge in the houses of notorious smugglers.  Officers and men were also to be private owners of no boats nor of shares in public-houses or fishing-craft.  The Inspecting Commanders were to report the nature of the coast, the time, the manner, and the method in respect of the smuggling generally carried on in the district.  If there were any shoals or rocks, not generally laid down or known, discovered when sounding to possess a different depth of water, or if anything should occur which might be useful for navigating the coasts of the kingdom, then cross bearings were to be taken and noted.  These men were also to render every assistance in case of wrecks and to prevent goods being smuggled therefrom into the country.  If any of these Preventive boatmen were wounded in fighting with a smuggler they were to be paid full wages for twenty-eight days or longer, and a reasonable surgeon’s bill would be also paid.