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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Royal Navy Officer Ranks. It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. This is a template for showing a table of the Royal Navy Officer ranks and epaulettes.
Royal Navy epaulettes for senior and junior officers, 18th and 19th centuries Royal Navy epaulettes for flag officers, 18th and 19th centuries. Uniforms for naval officers were not authorised until 1748. At first the cut and style of the uniform differed considerably between ranks, and specific rank insignia were only sporadically used.
His Majesty's Naval Service Epaulette Rank Insignia: Rank Title: Admiral of the Fleet [1] Admiral: Vice admiral: Rear admiral: Commodore: Captain: Commander: Lieutenant commander: Lieutenant: Sub-lieutenant: Midshipman: Officer Cadet: Abbreviation: Adm. of the Fleet [nb 1] Adm VAdm RAdm Cdre Capt Cdr Lt Cdr Lt Sub Lt / SLt Mid OC
A chief petty officer in the blue uniform wears three buttons on their sleeves to indicate rank, the same rank insignia (but topped with a star) used by Chilean Navy midshipmen. The WO2 rank began to be phased out in April 2014 for most branches except Submariner engineers, with no new appointments; existing holders of the rank retain it until ...
This is a template for showing a table of the Royal Navy Other ranks and epaulettes. The table can be expanded on pages allowing for more information to be associated with the ranks. The basic table can be added to a page with
<noinclude>[[Category:Royal Navy templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. Pages in category "Royal Navy templates"
The Royal Marines rank alongside their army equivalents. However, when on the books of any HM Ship or Naval Establishment, Royal Marines are subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957. In those circumstances, many officer ranks in the Royal Marines formerly enjoyed greater status.
The Royal Navy ranks, rates and insignia form part of the uniform of the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy uniform is the pattern on which many of the uniforms of the other national navies of the world are based (e.g. Ranks and insignia of NATO navies officers, Uniforms of the United States Navy, Uniforms of the Royal Canadian Navy, French Naval ...