NOTE.-No Appointments made after the 20th of the Month preceding publication can be inserted in the body of the NAVY LIST until the following List is published. A list of the Appointments, &c., which have taken place between the 20th and the 24th ultimo inclusive will be found at page 318. The EDITOR of the Navy List will be glad to receive any communications in reference to errors in the List, addressed to him at the ADMIRALTY, WHITEHALL, LONDON. *Communications for the Editor of the Navy List, addressed to the Publisher from abroad, should be post paid, in order to ensure attention, but it is more convenient to address to the Editor direct, as above, upon such subjects. The NAVY LIST is compiled and published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the convenience of the Service; but, as errors may occasionally occur, their Lordships must expressly reserve their right to determine the status of any Officer according to the actual circumstances of the case, independently of any entry in the Navy List. By Command of their Lordships, ROBERT HALL. The figures preceding each name denote the number of the ship in which the officer is serving. DY. VY. NH. GH. TS. KW. GSP. PW. GHP NP. R. M. Col. R. M. Lt.-Col. R. M. Maj. R. M. C.. R. M. L. . Colonel Royal Marines. R. M. Q. M.. P. S. C.. Passed Staff College. t t t N Coast Guard. Dock Yard. Victualling Yard. Chaplains holding Civil Ap- Officers who have taken Holy Officers studying at Royal Acting Sub-Lieutenants, and In a ship, a Gunnery Officer Surgeons who have passed for Engineer Officers who have Executive Officers who have passed for Navigating Duties, and Officers transferred from Navigating to Executive List under Circular 18 of 1876. In a ship, an Executive Officer borne for Navigating Duties. In the Seniority List indicates an officer qualified for torpedo duties. In a ship, an officer borne for torpedo duties. (I). . Officers who have passed for Interpreters. NOTE.-Temporary Service Engineers and Assistant Engineers appear as Ea Officers entitled to wear Medals are denoted by the letter m prefixed to their Names in the Seniority Lists. Hy Phy or Hy Sgn before the name of a Medical Officer in the Seniority Lists denotes that he is an Honorary Physician or Surgeon to the Queen. * before the name in the Seniority Lists denotes Officers authorised to wear Foreig Orders; * after the name in the case of a Medical Officer, Sir Gilbert Blane's Medal; and after the name in the case of any other officer, denotes that he has been awarded the "Beaufort Testimonial." (c) after the name in the Seniority Lists denotes the Officers who have obtaine their Lieutenants' Commissions by competition at the Royal Naval College, unde Admiralty Order of 24th December 1838; (E), those who have obtained the sam for meritorious Examination at the Royal Naval College subject to the provisions Circular No. 19 C, of 21st June 1865, and No. 28 C, of 14th March 1874, and (6) those who have received Honorary certificates under the provisions of Circul No. 8 C, of 30th January 1873. The Goodenough Gold Medal is awarded annually to the Acting Sub-Lieutena who, among those who have taken a first Class in Seamanship in passing for the rank of Lieutenant, passes the best examination of his year in Gunnery. Officers whose names are in Italics in the List of Ships are those borne as additional or supernumerary. |