Military Branch (Royal Navy)

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The Military Branch was the division of officers in the Royal Navy who were "authorized to assume Military command of a Ship".[1] The name first appears in the Queen's Regulations of 1844. The title was eventually replaced by Executive Branch in 1920.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Queen's Regulations for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service (1844).. p. 6.
  2. ↑ The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service. XII. p. 823.

Bibliography

  • The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service. Vol. XII. London: For His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1926.
  • Admiralty (1844). The Queen's Regulations for the Government of Her Majesty's Naval Service. London: For Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

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