The Royal Navy . neer commanders will, in allprobability, be merged into the executive, as werethe old navigation branch of masters and mastersmates, but will remain specialised for their par-ticular branch. The pay of officers of the Navy ranges from£91, 5s. per annum for a sub-lieutenant to £2190 foran admiral of the fleet. But this by no means re-presents the actual income that is earned, for in allranks there are allowances. All specialised officershave special rates of pay, and there are also variousother emoluments, such as command allowances,etc. The ordinary general service lieutenant
The Royal Navy . neer commanders will, in allprobability, be merged into the executive, as werethe old navigation branch of masters and mastersmates, but will remain specialised for their par-ticular branch. The pay of officers of the Navy ranges from£91, 5s. per annum for a sub-lieutenant to £2190 foran admiral of the fleet. But this by no means re-presents the actual income that is earned, for in allranks there are allowances. All specialised officershave special rates of pay, and there are also variousother emoluments, such as command allowances,etc. The ordinary general service lieutenant drawspay ranging, according to seniority, from £l82, £292, but senior lieutenants in a ship also geta special allowance. The pay for commanders is£365, whilst for captains it ranges from £412,10s. £602, 5s. A captain also gets command allow-ances ranging from £219 to £328, 10s. The payfor the present engineering branch is very much ona par with that for the military branch. FRENCH DESTROYERS. THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN 335 The pay branch is recruited from officers whoenter after competitive examination as clerks,ranking with midshipmen, and who pass throughthe grades of assistant paymaster, paymaster, staffand fleet paymaster, to paymaster in chief. Surgeons also enter by open competition, passthrough the grades of stafF-surgeon and fleet-surgeon to the rank of deputy inspector generaland inspector general of hospitals and fleets. Chaplains, a very large proportion of whom arealso quaUfied as naval instructors, are appointed bythe Admiralty. No one can be appointed who hasnot been ordained deacon and priest or who is overthirty-five years of age. Frequently at the expir-ation of their service in the Navy, chaplains areappointed to Greenwich Hospital livings, which areat the disposal of the Admiralty. Officers and men when not at sea or in ships innucleus commission or employed at one or other ofthe training establishments, are quartered in thenaval barracks, o
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