Second master

This article is about the Royal Navy rating. For the educational appointment, see Deputy head teacher.

Second master (French: Second-maître) is a military rank used in multiple Francophone navies across the world as well as a former rating in the Royal Navy.

United Kingdom

Second master was introduced in 1753 and indicated a deputy master on third-rate ships of the line or larger.

Second masters were paid significantly more than master's mates, £5 5s per month.^[1] A second master was generally a master's mate who had passed his examination for master and was deemed worthy of being master of a vessel. Second masters were given the first opportunity for master vacancies as they occurred.^[2]

Master's mates also acted as second master of vessels too small to be allocated a warranted master.^[3]

Gallery

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  Tweede meester
  French: Second-maître
  German: Zweiter Meister
  (Belgian Navy)^[4]
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  Second-maître
  (Cameroon Navy)
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  Second-maître
  (Navy of the DR Congo)
• 
  Second-maître
  (Congolese Navy)^[5]
• 
  Second-maître
  (Djiboutian Navy)
• 
  Second-maître
  (French Navy)^[6]
• 
  Second-maître
  (Gabonese Navy)
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  Second-maître
  (Guinean Navy)
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  Second-maître
  (Navy of Ivory Coast)^[7]
• 
  Segundo maestre
  (Mexican Navy)^[8]
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  Second-maître
  (Senegalese Navy)
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  Second-maître
  (Togolese Navy)^[9]

Footnotes

1. Lavery, Brian (1989). Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press. p. 326. ISBN 0-87021-258-3.
2. Rodger, N.A.M. (1986). The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-87021-987-1.
3. "Officer ranks in the Royal Navy". Retrieved 25 April 2009.
4. "Marinecomponent". mil.be (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 20 February 2005. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
5. "Grades appellations distinctions". defense.gouv.cg (in French). Ministry of National Defense (Republic of the Congo). Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. "Instruction n°1 DEF/EMM/RH/CPM relative aux uniformes et tenues dans la Marine du 15 juin 2004" (in French). 15 June 2004. pp. 3793–3867. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
7. "GRADES / APPELLATIONS / DISTINCTIONS". defense.gouv.ci (in French). Ministère de la Défense. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
8. Secretariat of the Navy (21 November 2005). "Reglamento De Uniformes, Condecoraciones, Divisas Y Distintivos De Laarmada De México" (PDF). SEMAR (in Spanish). pp. 80–83. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
9. "Journal officiel de la république togolaise" (PDF) (in French). 12 February 2008. Retrieved 16 June 2021.