Special equipment and supplies:
The troop tables for the Naval Construction Detachment include:
Subsistence: Eight water purification units, a water supply and distribution system, and a water distillation system. The purification units have chlorination and filter elements which could provide up to 40,000 litres of purified water per day. The water is stored in canvas tanks. The water was stored in canvas or wood tanks. The fire-fighting system consists of two 1,800 litre per minute centrifugal petrol-driven trailer pumps and chemical fire extinguishers. For electrical power, eight 15-kw three-phase 60-cycle petrol-driven generators are provided. Communication is handled by a fifty-circuit telephone system, a portable field telephone set, and a public address unit.
Construction Equipment: The detachment’s earth-moving equipment comprises thirty-seven pieces of equipment including: six crawler cranes – two of 0.4 m3 capacity, each with clamshell and dragline bucket attachments, three of 0.6 m3 capacity and one of 1.2 m3 capacity, the latter with clamshell, dragline and shovel attachments; eighteen crawler tractors of various classes ranging from 110-drawbar horsepower to 35-drawbar horsepower, all equipped with either bulldozer or angle-dozer attachments; eight carry-all spreaders – four of 6m3 capacity and four of 9m3 capacity; eight rock hammers; two road rollers; three power graders; two cargo cranes; two concrete mixers; and four portable diaphragm pumps of 12,000 litre-per-hour capacity.
Supplies and Materials: Among the specialist supplies provided the Naval Construction Detachment were: 1,000 bags of Portland cement; 770 cubic meters of lumber of assorted sizes; 900 metres of angle and bar steel; 5,000 kilograms of reinforcing steel; 14,000 assorted bolts; 20,000 metres of assorted size wire rope; 120 oxygen cylinders and 1,000 kilograms of welding rod.
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