A Fleet Chief became simply WO1 in 1985 as the services became more joint service orientated. Chief Artificer is also a WO1 rank, I'm not sure when it was phased out, maybe the same time.
Fleet Chief Petty Officer was changed to Warrant Officer to bring the Navy inline with the Army, Air Force and Marines. Chief Artificer was specific to a sub division of the Engineer departments.
I left as a Chief Petty Officer, Warrant Officer was then highest a non commission officer rate, now they have added Warrant Officer 2,, Warrant Officers are called Sir by ratings of a lower rate and Mr by commissioned officer.
Middy's are not commissioned. I had to suck that rank for a year. It's a training rank, we were called snotties from Petty Officer up, service members ignored us. We reported them to the DO who said take it up with the Coxswain, or Chief of the ship, who told us we were lower than whale shit.
You should do an overview of each role within the service 😁 it's a bit ask but I'm sure there would be plenty of potential recruits out there that would benefit for that sort of information 🙂 maybe try and get some information from those currently service? That was you can inform about stuff the websites don't 🙂 You could try (try being the main word) and do this for every service not just RN 🙂
@@MilitaryStuffChannel It would be good, as the information about Officer roles is not strictly accurate as Engineering, Logistic or other non-executive (Operations) branch cannot command a ship.
There used to be Petty Officers 2nd class and 1st class but these were merged in WW1. However with the plethora of Petty Officers in the RN nowadays maybe it would be a good idea if they were reintroduced?
Canadas Naval ranks is one of my favourite by far in terms of organization and structure. PO2 and PO1 are a thing, and CPO2 and CPO1 is also a thing. Super simple
When was that phased out? Am I wrong in thinking that in the 1980's you were an 'Ordinary Seaman' before progressing to an AB? Cheers.@@countofdownable
Is there not a rank called " Captain of the Fleet "? I remember the quiz show Pointless asking the question about Royal Navy ranks. I could have sworn this was one of the ranks!!!!!!!!
I read somewhere that, under the British system, the Navy is considered to be the "Senior Service", and as such has higher authority than the other branches. So if two officers of equivalent rank, say an Army lieutenant and a Navy lieutenant, are standing side-by-side, the naval officer is considered to have higher authority, and thus would be able to give orders to the army officer----even though they both have the same rank technically.
@@mjspice100 Thanks, that's what I thought. I remember reading about it in one of Phil McCutchan's British Navy novels. McCutchan was in WW2 and served on warships. I love his "Cameron" novels---very authentic.
@ Kelly Snipe It's the Senior Service in that it is founded and maintained by Royal Prerogative, unlike the British Army and the Royal Air Force, which can only be maintained with the approval of parliament.
Summary of ranks at the end, please. This was done for the Army so why not for the Royal Navy? Yes, better background too. Otherwise, excellent. Thank you.
Could I suggest that you make a notation of the NATO grades i.e. OR 1-9 for enlisted and NCO, and OF for Commissioned Officers. For example Royal Navy Petty Officers are OR 5 & 6. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy have 3 grades of Petty Officers 3rd, 2nd, and 1st class - OR 4, 5, & 6
