I hope this helps to answer some of the oft asked questions about the organization of the Royal Navy shipmates.
Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries.
These were the original effort of the
Royal Navy to create standardized rank and insignia system for use both at shore and at sea. The
uniforms and insignia first created in the mid-1700s, lasting until the mid-1850s, have since become immortalized in such classic naval literature works