Second master
Second master (French: Second-maître) is a military rank used in multiple Francophone navies across the world as well as a former rating in the Royal Navy.
United Kingdom[edit]
Second master was introduced in 1753 and indicated a deputy master on third-rate ships of the line or larger.
Second masters were paid significantly more than master's mates, £5 5s per month.[1] A second master was generally a master's mate who had passed his examination for master and was deemed worthy of being master of a vessel. Second masters were given the first opportunity for master vacancies as they occurred.[2]
Master's mates also acted as second master of vessels too small to be allocated a warranted master.[3]
Gallery[edit]
![Tweede meester French: Second-maître German: Zweiter meister (Belgian Navy)[4]](/wiki/File:Belgium-Navy-OR-5.svg)
![Second-maître (Congolese Navy)[5]](/wiki/File:04-ROCongo_Navy-PO1.svg)
![Second-maître (French Navy)[6]](/wiki/File:France-Navy-OR-5_Sleeve.svg)
![Second-maître (Navy of Ivory Coast)[7]](/wiki/File:Ivory_Coast-Navy-OR-5.svg){kind=small}
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Lavery, Brian (1989). Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press. p. 326. ISBN 0-87021-258-3.
- ^ Rodger, N.A.M. (1986). The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-87021-987-1.
- ^ "Officer ranks in the Royal Navy". Retrieved 25 April 2009.
- ^ "Grades appellations distinctions". defense.gouv.cg (in French). Ministry of National Defense (Republic of the Congo). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "GRADES / APPELLATIONS / DISTINCTIONS". defense.gouv.ci (in French). Ministère de la Défense. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Journal officiel de la république togolaise" (PDF) (in French). 12 February 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2021.