WWII Royal Navy Sleeve Rank Insignia

Havan_IronOak · 02-08-15, 04:03 PM

I watched the film Sink the Bismarck again the other day and was noticing the different Sleeve Rank Insignia

I've Googled it and I think that the Admiral of the Fleet guy is wearing the right insignia as are most of the others but... One guy (he's always the one with bad news signals Hood Sunk, tailing cruisers have lost contact)has wavy rather than straight sleeve stripes. Also the loop is more square than the standard circle. I can't find that in any of the charts.

Is that an indicator of some other service? Merchant Marine perhaps?

Aktungbby · 02-08-15, 04:19 PM

"From 1863 officers were commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve this was for serving merchant navy officers only. They had rings each formed from two 1⁄4in wavy lines intersecting each other. In 1903 the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was instituted and the officers were distinguished with waved stripes worn parallel to each other, surmounted by a squared waved “curl”. In addition to this we may see, at some naval establishment ashore, officers with an emerald green cloth between their stripes. These officers will invariably wear the single thin wavy stripes of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (The Wavy Navy): they belong to the Special Branch. Add to these various ranks the double, intertwined wavy sleeve markings of the Royal Naval Reserve - for the most part officers of the Merchant Navy in peacetime" wiki

Havan_IronOak · 02-08-15, 04:35 PM

Naval reserve makes sense.

Jimbuna · 02-09-15, 07:12 AM

Not the best images (two of them) but they should help:

Aktungbby · 02-09-15, 11:12 AM

# 30 is what I wear on formal occasions when strolling the starboard side of my first-rate's quarterdeck!

Otherwise superb illustrations!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterdeck (where it all happens)...it's even higher than the 'poop deck'

02-08-15, 04:03 PM	#1
Havan_IronOak Navy Dude Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 175 Downloads: 233 Uploads: 0	WWII Royal Navy Sleeve Rank Insignia I watched the film Sink the Bismarck again the other day and was noticing the different Sleeve Rank Insignia I've Googled it and I think that the Admiral of the Fleet guy is wearing the right insignia as are most of the others but... One guy (he's always the one with bad news signals Hood Sunk, tailing cruisers have lost contact)has wavy rather than straight sleeve stripes. Also the loop is more square than the standard circle. I can't find that in any of the charts. Is that an indicator of some other service? Merchant Marine perhaps? __________________ If I can't be a good example, I'll be a glaring warning! AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor, 3700 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) Windows 10 Home Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB NVidia RTX2070 16 Gig Last edited by Havan_IronOak; 02-08-15 at 04:34 PM.

02-08-15, 04:19 PM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,984 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	"From 1863 officers were commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve this was for serving merchant navy officers only. They had rings each formed from two 1⁄4in wavy lines intersecting each other. In 1903 the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was instituted and the officers were distinguished with waved stripes worn parallel to each other, surmounted by a squared waved “curl”. In addition to this we may see, at some naval establishment ashore, officers with an emerald green cloth between their stripes. These officers will invariably wear the single thin wavy stripes of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (The Wavy Navy): they belong to the Special Branch. Add to these various ranks the double, intertwined wavy sleeve markings of the Royal Naval Reserve - for the most part officers of the Merchant Navy in peacetime" wiki __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

02-08-15, 04:35 PM	#3
Havan_IronOak Navy Dude Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Posts: 175 Downloads: 233 Uploads: 0	Thanks for that. Naval reserve makes sense. __________________ If I can't be a good example, I'll be a glaring warning! AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor, 3700 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s) Windows 10 Home Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB NVidia RTX2070 16 Gig

02-09-15, 07:12 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Not the best images (two of them) but they should help: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

02-09-15, 11:12 AM	#5
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,984 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	ADM Walter Mitty # 30 is what I wear on formal occasions when strolling the starboard side of my first-rate's quarterdeck! Otherwise superb illustrations! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterdeck (where it all happens)...it's even higher than the 'poop deck' __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!