Talk:Royal Navy ranks

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All roads lead to here?

Do we want to use this as the page for all things that link lieutenant, and post captain, and master and commander etc, or did we want to leave those as separate articles? --LadyShelley 00:54, 15 June 2007 (BST)

Yes......... actually I did it as a starting point for all the ranks to be gathered with a short note about each as the more detailed articles don't yet exist. I didn't put in links to any of the ranks but that could be done. There is nothing to stop someone with a burning desire to write a scholarly article on the role of the Carpenter making a separate article which could be linked to directly from other articles and from here. Aquinas 01:44, 15 June 2007 (BST)

Period v. Modern

"By the time of Jack Aubrey they were established and only minor changes have been made since." This line surprises me, considering that the modern Royal Navy has several officers' ranks not included here [1], and an entirely different setup for the ratings[2]. Further, I query whether Purser, Bosun, etc. were properly ranks or positions.Czrisher 18:47, 23 June 2007 (BST)

"Minor" changes is arguable, perhaps. I meant that the overall set-up of commissioned officers and warrant officers of various types and ranks has really not changed much.There have been some new ones added with the new technology and old out dated ones removed. The boatswain was a warrant officer, I am not quite so sure about the purser, but he did mess with the wardroom. To be pedantic midshipmen were neither fish nor fowl and were not really commissioned or warrant officers so should probably not be included here either. Aquinas 03:46, 25 June 2007 (BST)

Is not this the very place to be pedantic, for all love?Czrisher 21:32, 25 June 2007 (BST)