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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 8, 1939.

Grade.

Stoker 1st Class

Stoker 2nd Class

Fireman and Stoker (dredging

service)

Able Seaman

Deckhand (dredging service)

Ordinary Seamaŭ

Boy

A.B.

TABLE VI.

Equivalent Naval Rank.

VESSELS BELONGING TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT,

Grade.

Equivalent Naval Rank,

Master (1st or 2nd Class)

Mate

Engineer, 1st Class or 2nd Class

Engineer, 3rd Class

Stoker, Chief

Stoker, leading or ordinary

Able Seaman

Ordinary Seaman

Boy

Warrant Officer.

Chief Petty Officer.

Petty Officer.

Leading Rating.

A.B.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

PROVISIONS FOR DETERMINING THE EQUIVALENT NAVAL RANK OF MEMBERS OF THE PILOTAGE SERVICES.

1. A pilot who has, during the twelve months expiring on the material date, piloted ships the average tonnage of which is more than 1,000 tons, shall be treated as holding on that date such equivalent naval rank as he would be treated as holding under the provisions of the First Schedule to this Scheme if he were on that date a mariner employed or engaged as a master of a British ship of a tonnage equal to that average tonnage.

2. A pilot who has, during the twelve months expiring on the material date, piloted ships the average tonnage of which is 1.000 tons or less, shall be treated as holding on that date such equivalent naval rank as he would be treated as holding under the provisions of the First Schedule to this Scheme if he were on that date a mariner employed or engaged as the master of a Home Trade Cargo Ship of tonnage equal to that average tommage.

3. An apprentice pilot shall be treated as holding on the material date the equivalent naval rank of a Chief Petty Officer.

4. The master of a pilot boat shall be treated as holding at the material date whichever of the equivalent naval ranks of Sub- Lieutenant or Warrant Officer is deemed by the Minister to be appropriate in the case of that master, having regard to the tonnage of the pilot boat of which he is the master.

5. A member of the crew of a pilot bout shall be treated as holding on the material date such equivalent naval rank as he would be treated as holding under the provisions of the First Schedule to

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