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Abbreviations
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:44 am
by JOHNB
Could any one let me know the rank S.D. This was a person serving on a motor launch.
Also is there a list of RN rank abbreviations anywhere?
Regards JB
Re: Abbreviations
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:03 pm
by Pioneer
Hello again 'JOHNB'
You will find a very large list
Here - Rating ranks are about halfway down. Not sure about S.D. but noticed that SB could also mean 'Signal Boy'
Re: Abbreviations
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:08 pm
by Pioneer
Further to the above John - here is an image from an old Royal Navy book circ 1944/5. The illustrations at 25. 26. are for a 'Submarine Detector Operater and Submarine Detector Instructor. Your S.D ??
Re: Abbreviations
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:16 pm
by JOHNB
Pioneer,
Once again many thanks. I am re building my web site and in re doing things i keep finding small bits I do not understand, I spent a couple of years with the Green Jackets then Shaw Saville for a year so no RN experience.
In some notes on the crew of ML 115 is a passage "The S.D. Able Seaman Hully had been awarded the D.S.M. for his part in the destruction of a U boat in the Mediterranean" Now I can think of many terms that the lower deck would use but the Coxswain wrote this note.
Yes I followed your link but I had been browsing that a couple of hours earlier and no S.D.?
Hi I think we might be on here together JB
Re: Abbreviations
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:20 pm
by JOHNB
10 out of 10 pioneer.
He was on a training ML at HMS Seahawk.
But when he got his award he must have been on a destroyer or similar as Seedies Coastal Command book does not list him.
Many thanks for all your help JB