Distinguishing Badges

MENU Distinguishing Badges MENU Badge Identification A1 A2 B1 B2 B3 Menu Badge Identification Petty Officer Leading Rating Good Conduct Badges Chief Petty Officers Gunner's Mate and Gunlayer 1st class Gunner's Mate B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 Gunlayer 1st Class Gunlayer 2nd Class Gunlayer 3rd Class CPO (G), PO (G) , Seaman Gunner Torpedo Gunner's Mate Torpedo Gunner's Mate (Higher Standard) Torpedo Coxswain B11 B12 B13 B14 B15 B16 B17 Leading Torpedo Man Chief Petty Officer (T) and Petty Officer (T) and Seaman Torpedo Man Chief Yeoman of Signals Yeoman of Signals Leading Signalman Signalman Ordinary Signalman and Boy B18 B19 B20 B21 B22 B23 B24 Wireless Telegraphy Branch Physical Training Instructor 1st Class Physical Training Instructor 2nd Class Mechanician Chief Stoker Stoker Petty Officer Leading Stoker passed for Stoker Petty Officer B25 B26 B27 B28 B29 B30 B31 Stoker Chief or other Armourer Armourer's Mate or Crew Blacksmith, Plumber, Painter 1st class, and all Chief and other Carpenter's Mate, or Skilled Shipwright of what ever rating All other Artizans Naval Police Schoolmaster, Ship's Stewards, Writers B31 B32 B33 B34 B35 B36 All Cook ratings Sick Berth Staff Bugler Good Shooting Badge, 1st class Marksman. Good Shooting Badge, 2nd class Marksman. Good Shooting Badge, 3rd class Marksman. MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP. Vol. I. 1908. (Revised and Reprinted 1915.) Men, of all ratings, whether dressed as seamen or not,if they are below the rating of Chief Petty Officer, wear their distinguishing badges for substantive ratings on the left arm and for non-substantive ratings on the right arm. Thus, if a man is a petty officer and a gunner's mate he wears the distinctive badge of a petty officer (two anchors crossed, surmounted by a crown ) on his left arm , and the badge for a gunner's mate on his right arm. In the case of the Civil Branches (stoker, carpenter, armourer, &c . ) the badge showing the relative rating with the Executive Branch (i.e. , petty officer or leading seaman ) is worn on the left arm , and the badge indicative of their duties on the right arm. Good shooting badges are worn on the right arm, below the non-substantive rating badges, 1 1/2 inches above the right cuff. In the case of Seamen Chief Petty Officers, the distinguishing badge of their non-substantive rating, in the case of those with a gunnery or torpedo rating, and a single anchor in the case of those without, is worn on both sides of the front of the collar of their coats . Men belonging to the Civil Branches with the rating of Chief Petty Officer wear the badge indicative of their duties on both sides of the front of their collars, with the exception of engine-room artificers, who wear no badge at all. In addition , Chief Petty Officers, and men ranking as such, wear distinctive gilt buttons on their coats, and they do not wear good conduct badges. (A) Badges of rating worn on the left arm ( B) Distinguishing badges worn on right arm, and, in the case of Chief Petty Officers, and men ranking as such, on the front of the collars of their coats : NOTE. —A star above a badge in every case indicates a man of superior qualifications, and another star below denotes that a man had passed for and is performing certain special duties