The Orders in Council for the Regulation of the Naval Service.
Also known as Admiralty Orders in Council |
Whilst they are mentioned in the Index I've not included the detail for R.M. personnel and Greenwich Hospital. Vols. 7-9 of the Orders in Council and an index for all the Orders since the 17th Century to about 1902 can be found at archive.org/index.php.
Vol. VII.
30th January 1893 to 26th November 1897.
HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, 1898.
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ORDERS IN COUNCIL FOR THE REGULATION OF THE NAVAL SERVICE.
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28 July |
Rates of Pay of Blacksmiths and Leading Stokers entered for Non-Continuous Service |
20 |
28 July |
Greenwich Hospital Pensions - Reduction in the number allotted to Lieutenants, and addition of one pension of �35 a year to a Ch. Gunner, a Ch. Boatswain, and Oh. Carpenter |
21 |
28 July |
Allowance granted to Artificers, &c. in lieu of Quarters at Esquimalt - Increased |
22 |
28 July |
Regimental Transport at the R.M.A. Division, Eastney - Allowance to Gunner, R.M.A. , employed as driver |
23 |
26 Aug |
Fencing Instructor to the Naval Cadets on H.M.S. "Britannia" - Allowance of Is. a day to Petty Officer acting as |
24 |
26 Aug |
Conditional transfer of ten Engineer Officers employed for temporary service to the permanent List |
25 |
26 Aug |
Petty Officers advanced to Chief Petty Officers - Gratuity of �5 to procure change of uniform. Extra pay to Chief Armourers when employed on general work or on work in connection with guns or torpedoes |
26 |
26 Aug |
Plymouth Dockyard Regulations - Alteration respecting Private Steam Vessels passing the Powder Magazine at Bull Point or any of the Powder Ships in the Harbour |
27 |
23 Nov |
Appointment of Electrician of H.M.S. "Vernon " Continued, salary, &c. |
28 |
23 Nov |
Advancement of Sick Berth Ratings. Abolition of the rule requiring 2 years' Sea service for, and service on Shore to be considered equally qualifying with service at Sea |
29 |
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23 Nov |
Reduction of time to be served by Naval Cadets before passing in seamanship for the rank of Lieutenant - Re-arrangement of Seniorities of Officers affected, to prevent injustice |
30 |
23 Nov |
Allowances to Naval Officers, not specially borne for Yard service, when employed on survey of Victualling Stores at places abroad. |
31 |
23 Nov |
Sheerness Gunnery school. - Allowance to Gunner giving Instruction in Diving |
32 |
23 Nov |
Commanders employed on Surveying Service - Payment of higher rate of Lodging Allowance (4s, 6d.) whilst living on shore |
33 |
23 Nov |
Promotion to rank of Inspector of Machinery - Qualification : Two years� sea service necessary for, but dispensed with in the case of Officers who have held from 2nd April, 1888, positions of Ch. Engineer or Assistant to Ch. Engineer of a Dockyard, or an equivalent position at the Admiralty |
34 |
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1894 |
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29 Jan. |
Allowances for Training Services carried out in H.M.S. "Caledonia" and "Wanderer" |
35 |
3 Mar. |
Queen's Regulations - Issue of Addenda dated February, 1894 |
36 |
3 Mar. |
Medical Officers guilty of such misconduct or neglect of duty which render them unfit for further active service may be placed on the Retired List - Rate of Retired Pay or Gratuity |
37 |
3 Mar. |
Marines advanced to higher acting grades - Extra pay |
37a |
3 Mar. |
Travers Pensions - Awarded discretionally to Senior Retired Lieutenants or Lieutenants retired with rank of Commander, no Officer to hold a Travers� Pension and a Greenwich Hospital or Naval Pension at the same time |
37b |
3 Mar. |
Torpedo Allowance to Warrant Officers while on passage in any of H.M. Ships or in any Hired Vessels |
37c |
10 Mar. |
Signalling at the Dockyard Tower, Portsmouth - Part of the Staff to be permanently appointed - rates of pay |
38 |
10 Mar. |
Command Money to be paid to Officers below the rank of Lieutenant in any Vessels other than Torpedo Boats |
39 |
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15 Oct. |
Allowances for Training Services carried out in H.M. S. "Northampton" |
60 |
15 Oct. |
H.M. Ships employed in the Zambesi and Lake Nyassa Waters - Further improvement in dietary of men |
61 |
15 Oct. |
Seamen Class Bugler - Boys qualified as Bugler to receive extra pay from date of qualification instead of from date of leaving the Training Ships |
62 |
20 Nov |
Officers and Men serving in Torpedo Boat Destroyers - To receive extra pay while in commission |
63 |
20 Nov |
Royal Marines - Total number raised to 15,500 |
63a |
12 Dec |
Portsmouth Dockyard Regulations - Insertion of a Clause (28a) prohibiting the anchoring, &c. of vessels within 200 yards of the Spit, Horse, Neman's, or St. Helen's Forts. |
64 |
12 Dec |
Plymouth Dockyard Regulations - Insertion of two Clauses (9a and 9b) respecting the navigation of the Hamoaze by steam vessels. |
65 |
12 Dec. |
Greenwich Hospital Funds - Scale of Accountant�s Salary raised, the present holder to receive �450 annually - Grant of Allowance of 2s. a week, under certain conditions, to Pensioners whose pensions exceed Is, a day, and who are admitted to Naval Hospitals or Infirmaries |
66 |
12 Dec. |
Instruction in Diving in Gunnery Schools - Petty Officers or Seamen to be employed as Diving Instructors. - Allowance |
67 |
12 Dec. |
Stores at Naval College, Portsmouth - To be in charge of, and to be accounted for by a Lieutenant - Allowance |
68 |
12 Dec. |
Rules Respecting Seconded Officers of the Army - Such rules as are deemed desirable to be applied to R.M. Officers |
69 |
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12 Dec. |
Transference of Land in the County of Devonshire (Bull Point) from the War Office to the Admiralty |
70 |
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1895 |
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2 Feb. |
Working Pay - Royal Marines to be placed under the same restrictions and conditions as the Army for the payment of |
71 |
2 Feb. |
Limits of Age for the entry of Assistant Clerks, R.N., raised - Special promotion on 3rd February, 1895, of certain Clerks to prevent their being passed over by later entries |
72 |
2 Feb. |
Queen's Regulations - Issue of Addenda dated February, 1895 |
73 |
2 Feb. |
Gunners and Boatswains - Increase in number of |
74 |
8 Mar. |
Position of Retired Officers, when called out for service the event of war or emergency - Defined |
75 |
8 Mar. |
Number of Carpenters - Increased |
76 |
8 Mar. |
Lieutenants, R.N.R., who have gone through 12 months' training employed in lieu of Lieutenants, R.N. - Pay, fees, and allowances. Extension of the Regulations in certain cases |
77 |
8 Mar. |
Payment of Command money to Lieutenants in Torpedo Boats, &c. during the Manoeuvres - Extended to Commanders |
78 |
8 Mar. |
Table allowance to Flag Officers - Provisions for the payment of, to Flag Officers returning to England or proceeding to their Stations in their Flag-ship, and to Officers on leave at home for more than 48 consecutive hours |
79 |
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8 Mar. |
Allowance to the R.M. Officer collecting Naval Intelligence on the Mediterranean Station - This Officer to be borne as part Complement of the Flag-ship in lieu of a Subaltern, R.M.A. |
79a |
11 May |
Naval Signal Stations on Channel Islands to be manned by long service pensioners resident in the Islands - Gratuity, pay, allowances, &c. |
80 |
11 May |
Quartermasters, R.M., to be granted the 20 years� commissioned Service rate of pay, after a total service of 30 years or at the age of 60, provided that they have held a commission for 15 years in either case |
81 |
11 May |
Quartermaster a�d Hon. Lieutenant Walter Aitken, R.M., to be placed on a supplementary list while on half-pay |
82 |
11 May |
Grant of Compensation for the Loss of Savings to crews of all vessels, if independent commands, commissioned for temporary service, whose complements do not include an accountant officer |
83 |
11 May |
Re-enlistment of Royal Marines who have been discharged by Purchase or on the termination of their period of limited engagement, in time of war or emergency - Proposals as to pay, rating, &c. |
84 |
11 May |
Junior Service of Engineer and Accountant Officers, subsequent to the date of promotion to the Senior Grade only, to count towards increase of full, half, and retired pay in certain cases |
85 |
11 May |
Substantive rating of Draughtsmen in R.N. to be a Non-continuous Service Chief Petty Officer rating with pay of 4s. a day |
86 |
29 June |
Royal Marines - Alterations in status and pay of Recruiting Officers. Number of Quartermasters increased and appointment of Sub-Inspector of Marine Schools abolished |
87 |
29 June |
Service under the British Central African Protectorate to be allowed to count for promotion |
88 |
29 June |
White clothing to R.M. - Gratuitous issue to be made, provided that an interval of 3 years shall have elapsed since the last issue |
89 |
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29 June |
Employment of Officers of the Mercantile Marine and Royal Naval Reserve as Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants in the Navy, such Officers to be placed on a supplementary list - Pay, &c. |
90 |
29 June |
Engineer Officer in charge of the Horsea Island Torpedo Range - Allowance granted |
90a |
29 June |
Warrant Officers' Stores - Chief and First-Class Petty Officers to receive allowance when in charge of |
90b |
29 June |
Esquimalt Yard - Increase of allowance for local audit at |
90c |
4 July |
Revision of the rates of Full, Half, and Retired Pay of the higher ranks of Engineer Officers, R.N. |
91 |
4 July |
Retired Naval Officers when voluntarily re-employed - To receive a bonus in addition to their pay and allowances. This Service not to count for increase of retired pay. Equipment allowance |
92 |
16 July |
Executive Officers - changes in respect of numbers and retirement of. Modification of provisions of O. in C. of 22nd February, 1870 |
93 |
13 Aug. |
Allowance to cover the cost of procuring Fuel at Coast-Guard Stations - To be paid to Gunnery Instructors lent to R.N.R. Batteries, who are living at Coast-Guard Stations |
94 |
13 Aug. |
Musketry instruction of Marines of the Mediterranean station - allowances for |
95 |
3 Oct. |
Russian Language - Gratuity to Officers, R.N. and R.M., who obtain Certificates as Interpreter in |
96 |
3 Oct. |
Officers who have qualified in Gunnery or Torpedo to be allowed a further course of gunnery on full pay |
97 |
3 Oct. |
Mess Traps granted to Warrant Officers - Scale of values |
98 |
3 Oct. |
Establishment of Chief Petty Officer rating of "Instructor in Cookery" - Pay, conditions of service, &c. |
99 |
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26 Feb |
Chief Boatmen of the Coast Guard - To receive an increase of pay after 4 years' service as such |
140 |
26 Feb |
Persons employed on printing duties in the offices of Commanders-in-Chief - Allowance to |
141 |
26 Feb |
Dockyard Port of Portsmouth - Limits, Regulations for protection of, and for Anchoring, Berthing, Mooring, and Breaming, and for avoiding Collisions, &c. |
142 |
26 Feb |
Command Money to Officers Commanding Tenders to Coast-Guard Ships and Torpedo Boat Destroyers attached as Tenders for instructional purposes to Harbour Ships - Increased |
143 |
26 Feb |
Training of Homing Pigeons at Portsmouth - Allowance to Mr. William Barrett, Gunner |
144 |
26 Feb |
Free Issue of Caps to Royal Marines - Compensation in lieu, &c. |
145 |
26 Feb |
Minimum Age at which children may be educated and maintained out of Greenwich Hospital funds - Regulation to be waived in exceptional cases |
146 |
26 Feb |
Subsistence of Royal Marines imprisoned in Cells - Provost Sergeants to be granted sums required for |
147 |
26 Feb |
Higher Ranks of Engineer Officers - Revision of pay, conditions of retirement, &c. |
148 |
26 Feb |
Marine Instructor of Swimming at Portsmouth - To receive the instructing allowance throughout the year, and the four months' limit to be removed generally. |
148a |
18 May |
Queen's Regulations - Issue of Addenda dated February, 1897 |
149 |
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18 May |
Number of Engineer Officers increased, Introduction of a new class of Engineer Warrant Officers called "Artificer Engineers " - Regulations |
150 |
18 May |
Number of Royal Marines raised to 17,000 |
151 |
18 May |
Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels, R.M. - Assimilation of rates of half pay with those allowed to Officers of these ranks in the Army |
152 |
18 May |
Allowance to Instructors in Seamanship to be extended to such ships as may be determined by the Admiralty |
153 |
18 May |
Dockyard Port of Plymouth - Limits, Regulations for protection of, and for Anchoring, Berthing, Mooring, and Breaming, and for avoiding Collisions, &c. |
154 |
18 May |
Contribution out of Greenwich Hospital Funds - Towards additional buildings to the Schools at Throckley, Newburn. Scale op Salary op Headmaster of Greenwich Hospital School raised - present holder to receive �350 a year. |
155 |
18 May |
Allowances for Training Services carried out in HMS CALLIOPE |
156 |
18 May |
Royal Marine Schools � Regulations as to Pay, Pensions, &c., to staff |
157 |
18 May |
Captains of Guns and Turrets - Further remuneration to |
158 |
18 May |
Stationary Allowances to Accountant Officers on Coast Guard District Ships and R.N.R. Drill Ships - Increased to provide for the supply of Stationery to Medical Officers. |
159 |
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