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By the Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, masters, mates and engineers in the merchant service were permitted "to serve as officers of reserve to the Royal Navy."<ref>An Act to establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve."  26 & 27 Victoria, c. 69.</ref>
By the Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, masters, mates and engineers in the merchant service were permitted "to serve as officers of reserve to the Royal Navy."<ref>An Act to establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve."  26 & 27 Victoria, c. 69.</ref>


To ameliorate the shortage of watch officers, in 1895 provision was made for one hundred officers of the Mercantile Marine to enter the Royal Navy on a Supplementary List of Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants.<ref>Order-in-Council of 29 July, 1895.</ref>  In 1898 provision was made for fifty more officers of the Mercantile Marine to join the Supplementary List.<ref>Order-in-Council of 9 August, 1898.</ref> In 1913 another one hundred officers were provided for on the Supplementary List.<ref>Order-in-Council of 7 March, 1913.</ref>  The only officer whose career prospered under this scheme appears to have been [[Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt|Guy Gaunt]], who reached the rank of {{RearRN}} before being retired in 1918.
==Practical Research Considerations==
The Service Records of R.N.R. men in the ADM 240 and ADM 340 tranches of The National Archives are considerably harder to read than those of Royal Navy men. Profuse, verbose, faintly written in a shoddy hand, and largely consumed with details of no practical interest &ndash; it is hard to know what these men did by reading their Service Records.  {{TONE}}
 
==See Also==
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* [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]]
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
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[[Category:Royal Naval Reserve Captains]]
[[Category:Royal Naval Reserve Captains]]

Latest revision as of 10:38, 13 December 2024

History

In 1859 the Royal Naval Volunteers were established by act of Parliament. The preamble to the legislation explained:

Whereas it is expedient that there should be a reserve volunteer force of seamen for service in Her Majesty's fleet in time of emergency, and that the seamen composing such force should be duly entered and trained.

The maximum number of men was set at 30,000, and [1]

By the Officers of Royal Naval Reserve Act, 1863, masters, mates and engineers in the merchant service were permitted "to serve as officers of reserve to the Royal Navy."[2]

Practical Research Considerations

The Service Records of R.N.R. men in the ADM 240 and ADM 340 tranches of The National Archives are considerably harder to read than those of Royal Navy men. Profuse, verbose, faintly written in a shoddy hand, and largely consumed with details of no practical interest – it is hard to know what these men did by reading their Service Records. — TONY LOVELL, Editor.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "An Act for the Establishment of a Reserve Force of Seamen, and for the Government of the same." 22 & 23 Victoria, c. 40.
  2. ↑ An Act to establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve." 26 & 27 Victoria, c. 69.

Bibliography

  • Dawson, Captain Lionel. (1935). Flotillas: A Hard-Lying Story. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd.

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