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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>An [[officer]]'s '''commission''' is the document issued to him by the [[Admiralty]] each time he is promoted or assigned to a new ship or station. In <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">our period</del>, a commission was printed on parchment from an engraved plate, with the recipient's name, that of his ship, and the date filled in by hand; it was signed on behalf of the Admiralty by the First Secretary and three members of the Board, and it usually bore a note of the date of his promotion to his current rank to serve as a reminder of his [[seniority]]. A new commission had to be drawn up each time an officer was moved from one ship or posting to another, even where there was no change in rank; this procedure was a relic of the early seventeenth century, when there was no professional officer class within the [[Royal Navy]] and its officers were simply gentlemen of a martial turn whose field of action happened to lie at sea. Thus an active sea-officer would accumulate a considerable number of commissions during his career.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>An [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Royal Navy ranks|</ins>officer]]'s '''commission''' is the document issued to him by the [[Admiralty]] each time he is promoted or assigned to a new ship or station. In <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the early 1800's</ins>, a commission was printed on parchment from an engraved plate, with the recipient's name, that of his ship, and the date filled in by hand; it was signed on behalf of the Admiralty by the First Secretary and three members of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Admiralty </ins>Board<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|Board]]</ins>, and it usually bore a note of the date of his promotion to his current rank to serve as a reminder of his [[seniority]]. A new commission had to be drawn up each time an officer was moved from one ship or posting to another, even where there was no change in rank; this procedure was a relic of the early seventeenth century, when there was no professional officer class within the [[Royal Navy]] and its officers were simply gentlemen of a martial turn whose field of action happened to lie at sea. Thus an active sea-officer would accumulate a considerable number of commissions during his career.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Only [[lieutenant]]s, [[commander]]s, [[Post Captain (rank)|post captain]]s and [[admiral]]s were appointed by commission.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Only [[lieutenant]]s, [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Master and Commander (rank)|</ins>commander]]s, [[Post Captain (rank)|post captain]]s and [[admiral]]s were appointed by commission.</div></td></tr>
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</table>LadyShelleyhttp://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/index.php?title=Commission&diff=2823&oldid=prevOliver Mundy: Article created2007-08-21T13:33:16Z<p>Article created</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>An [[officer]]'s '''commission''' is the document issued to him by the [[Admiralty]] each time he is promoted or assigned to a new ship or station. In our period, a commission was printed on parchment from an engraved plate, with the recipient's name, that of his ship, and the date filled in by hand; it was signed on behalf of the Admiralty by the First Secretary and three members of the Board, and it usually bore a note of the date of his promotion to his current rank to serve as a reminder of his [[seniority]]. A new commission had to be drawn up each time an officer was moved from one ship or posting to another, even where there was no change in rank; this procedure was a relic of the early seventeenth century, when there was no professional officer class within the [[Royal Navy]] and its officers were simply gentlemen of a martial turn whose field of action happened to lie at sea. Thus an active sea-officer would accumulate a considerable number of commissions during his career.<br />
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Only [[lieutenant]]s, [[commander]]s, [[Post Captain (rank)|post captain]]s and [[admiral]]s were appointed by commission.<br />
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[[Category:Naval life]]</div>Oliver Mundy