junior rating

For junior ratings it is a traditional navy blue sailor suit.

The normal complement was 36, composed of officers and senior and junior ratings.

Junior Ratings wore hats similar to those of their male counterparts (although with a more sloping top).

The most junior rating could rig, work ship, or handle the armament without a petty officer's attention.

The normal complement is 36, in her current deployment is 15 officers and 22 senior and junior ratings.

Mick appeared to revel in stirring it among the junior ratings - and Oz had had enough.

Leading ratings and below are junior ratings.

"It came to my attention that a number of junior ratings had expressed seditious opinions over your handling of this action," he explained after a moment.

Gloucester's spirit was infectious : they were an enthusiastic team, from the compact, humorous man who was their captain, down to the most junior rating.

During the second term officer cadets spend 10 weeks in Initial Fleet Time, serving aboard capital warships as junior ratings.

Apprentices were the last junior ratings not to be dressed as seamen, i.e. they did not wear 'square rig'.

However upon her return to Britain a junior rating was alleged to have attempted to smuggle 12 kilograms of cocaine in bags in her personal quarters.

The complement was 5 officers, 7 Senior Ratings, and 16 Junior Ratings, although additional accommodation meant that a total crew of 36 could be borne for training purposes.

A single bar is available, with all personnel sharing the facility in contrast to the Royal Navy tradition of separate mess facilities for Officers, Senior and Junior ratings.

He suggested junior ratings on the old rate should remain on that rate with a cut of 10%, and marriage allowances should be extended to ratings under the age of 25.

He had appeared at the defaulters' table only as a witness to last night's stupidity in the Royal Marines' mess, resulting in Corporal Burns being charged with striking a junior rating.

The other entered the Forward Engine Room, exploding beneath the Junior Ratings Dining Room where the First Aid Party was stationed and the ship immediately began listing to port.

There were also reports that some of the Petty Officers-who had so far continued to follow orders, although they had not attempted to get junior ratings to return to work-were starting to join the strike.

The shuttle's hatch hissed open and released one of the noncommissioned gils assigned to the craft's duty crew; but from behind the junior rating came Kotan Pa'Dar, his face darkened with effort.

All the frustrations of the rule-fettered junior ratings; the logical constraints which made for sensible conduct among civilized folk; the formal complaints through the proper service channels, complaints which slowly lost momentum as they ground to a halt.

Also during these exercises, seven of her crew had to be airlifted to hospital in Middlesbrough on 13 March suffering from fume inhalation and throat and eye irritation after an accident with chemicals in cleaning a junior ratings' toilet area.

He concluded that the mutiny had been caused primarily by the 25% cut for junior ratings who had joined the service before 1925, that there were no grievances besides the pay cut, and his belief that the complaint was well founded.

Tournaments in the Junior Ratings series will be played at The Dome, Kingsley from May 25th to 29th and July 27th to August 1st, and at Petersfield from July 22nd to 26th.

The first basic training establishment to train manpower for the future Navy - the HMNS QUORRA was started on 1 November 1957 with 60 junior ratings who underwent a 6 month basic seamanship course.

The recommended cuts in spending on the navy were translated into a 10% pay cut (matching 10% cuts across the board for public sector workers) for officers and senior ratings, and for all junior ratings on the "new rate" of pay (introduced for new entrants from 1925).