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ARSENAL , an See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment for the construction, repair, See also:

RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt, storage and issue of warlike stores; details as to materiel will be found under See also:

AMMUNITION

AMMUNITION, See also:

ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century)

ORDNANCE, &c. The word " arsenal " appears in various forms in Romanic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages (from which it has been adopted into See also:

Teutonic), i.e. See also:

ITALIAN

Italian arzanale, See also:

SPANISH

Spanish arsenal, &c.; Italian also has arzana and darsena, and Spanish a longer See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form atarazanal. The word is of Arabic origin, being a corruption of daras-sina'ah, See also:

house of See also:

trade or manufacture, See also:

dar, house, al, the, and sina'ah, trade, manufacture, . See also:

ana'a, to make. Such guesses as arx navalis, See also:

NAVAL

naval citadel, arx senatus (i.e. of See also:

Venice, &c.), are now entirely rejected. A first-class arsenal, which can renew the materiel and equipment of a large See also:

army, embraces a See also:

gun factory, See also:

CARRIAGE

carriage factory, laboratory and small-arms ammunition factory, small-arms factory, See also:

HARNESS (from O. Fr. harneis or harnois; the ultimate origin is obscure; the Celtic origin which connects it with the Welsh haiarn, iron, has phonetic and other difficulties; the French is the origin of the Span. arnes, and Ger. Harnisch)

harness, See also:

SADDLERY

saddlery and See also:

TENT

tent factories, and a See also:

POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder factory; in addition it must possess See also:

GREAT

great See also:

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire, Late Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions, supply, from the late use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

store-houses. In a second-class arsenal the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategical considerations. If of the first class, it should be situated at the See also:

BASE

base of operations and See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply, secure from attack, not too near a frontier, and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on the See also:

scale of those of a large fortress. The usual subdivision of branches in a great arsenal is into A, Storekeeping; B, Construction; C, See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

Administration. Under A we should have the following departments and stores:—Departments of issue and receipt, See also:

PATTERN

pattern See also:

ROOM

room, armoury See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, ordnance or See also:

park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp equipment, tools and See also:

INSTRUMENTS

instruments, engineer store, magazines, raw material store, See also:

TIMBER

timber yard, breaking-up store, unserviceable store.

Under B—Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small-arms factory, harness and tent factory, powder factory, &c. In a second-class arsenal there would be workshops instead of these factories. C—Under the See also:

head of administration would be classed the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief director of the arsenal, officials military and See also:

CIVIL

civil, non-commissioned See also:

OFFICERS

officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and labourers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office See also:

WORK

work of the establishments. In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping See also:

PART

part, See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive See also:

state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores. For See also:

fuller details the reader is referred to papers by See also:

Sir E. Collen, R.A., in vol. viii., and Lieut. C. E. Grover, R.E., in vol. vi. Proceedings of R. See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

Artillery Institution. In See also:

England the Royal Arsenal, See also:

WOOLWICH

Woolwich, manufactures and stores the requirements of the army and See also:

NAVY

navy (see WOOLWICH).

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