General Specifications - Appendix 6

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAINTING
AND CEMENTING VESSELS
OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY

Edition of June 1943

Preface

This issue supersedes the November 1942 edition of appendix 6 to the General Specifications for Building Vessels of the U.S. Navy and section S19-1 of September 1, 1940 to the General Specifications for Machinery.  It has been prepared in order to bring instructions into accord with current practice, to utilize recent developments, research, and tests in this field, and to issue it in the established printed form of the appendices to the General Specifications.  The instructions for painting and cementing vessels will henceforth be promulgated in four publications namely:

1. An appendix (No. 6) to the general specifications to cover the painting and cementing of new construction and conversions.  (These form a part of the contract specifications.)
2. The Ship Camouflage Instructions, U.S. Navy Ships -2.  (These will contain all confidential information and amend other instructions by order where indicated.)
3. Specifications and formulas for materials used.
4. A manual for painting ships in service (pending chapter 19 of the Bureau of Ships manual).  (These are general instructions pertinent to painting procedure not covered by specifications.)

The material specifications will be issued individually as rapidly as they can be prepared.  Pending these issues, the paints which are procured shall be in accordance with the detail manufacturing formulas.

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