PASSING HONORS

1227. “Passing honors” and “close aboard” defined. “Passing honors” are those honors, other than gun salutes, rendered on occasions when ships or embarked officials or officers pass, or are passed, close aboard. “Close aboard” shall mean passing within six hundred yards for ships and four hundred yards for boats. These rules shall be interpreted liberally, to ensure that appropriate honors are rendered.

1228. Passing honors between ships.

1. Passing honors, consisting of sounding “Attention” and rendering the hand salute by all persons on view on deck and not in ranks, shall be exchanged between ships of the Navy and between ships of the Navy and the Coast Guard, passing close aboard.
2. In addition, the honors prescribed in Table 2 shall be rendered by a ship of the Navy passing close aboard a ship or naval station displaying the flag of the officials indicated therein and by naval stations, insofar as practicable, when a ship displaying such flag passes close aboard. These honors shall be acknowledged by rendering the same honors in return.

1229. Passing honors to officials and officers embarked in boats.

1. The honors prescribed in Table 3 shall be rendered by a ship of the Navy being passed close aboard by a boat displaying the flag or pennant of the following officials and officers. 
2. Persons on the quarterdeck shall salute when a boat passes close aboard in which a flag officer, a unit commander or a commanding officer is embarked as indicated by a display of a personal flag, command pennant, commission pennant or miniature thereof.

1230. Passing honors to foreign dignitaries and warships.

1. The honors prescribed for the President of the United States shall be rendered by a ship of the Navy being passed close aboard by a ship or boat displaying the flag or standard of a foreign president, sovereign or member of a reigning royal family, except that the foreign national anthem shall be played in lieu of the national anthem of the United States.
2. Passing honors shall be exchanged with foreign warships passed close aboard and shall consist of parading the guard of the day, sounding “Attention,” rendering the salute by all persons in view on deck, and playing the foreign national anthem.

1231. Sequence in rendering passing honors.

1. “Attention” shall be sounded by the junior when the bow of one ship passes the bow or stern of the other, or, if the senior is embarked in a boat, before the boat is abreast, or nearest to abreast, the quarterdeck.
2. The guard, if required, shall present arms, and all persons in view on deck shall salute.
3. The music, if required, shall sound off.
4. “Carry on” shall be sounded when the prescribed honors have been rendered and acknowledged.

1232. Dispensing with passing honors.

1. Passing honors shall not be rendered after sunset or before 0800 except when international courtesy requires.
2. Passing honors shall not be exchanged between ships of the Navy engaged in tactical evolutions outside port.
3. The senior officer present may direct that passing honors be dispensed within whole or in part.
4. Passing honors shall not be rendered by nor required of ships with small bridge areas, such as submarines, particularly when in restricted waters.

1233. Crew at quarters on entering or leaving port.

1. The crew shall be paraded at quarters during daylight on entering or leaving port on occasions of ceremony except when weather or other circumstances make it impracticable or undesirable to do so. Occasions of ceremony include:
   1. visits that are not operational;
   2. at homeport when departing for or returning from a lengthy deployment;
   3. visits to foreign ports not visited recently and
   4. other special occasions so determined by a superior.
2. In lieu of parading the entire crew at quarters, an honor guard maybe paraded in a conspicuous place on weather decks.