Navy
(asked on 8th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list by rank and number of personnel in (a) the Surface Fleet, (b) the Royal Marines, (c) the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, (d) the Submarine Service and (e) the Fleet Air Arm.
The information requested is below.
Table 1:
Royal Marines | |
Paid Rank | Royal Marines |
General | - |
Lieutenant General | 3 |
Major General | 2 |
Brigadier | 14 |
Colonel | 30 |
Lieutenant Colonel | 130 |
Major | 220 |
Captain | 260 |
Lieutenant | 80 |
Warrant Officer Class 1 | 100 |
Warrant Officer Class 2 | 240 |
Colour Sergeant | 420 |
Sergeant | 650 |
Corporal | 1,160 |
Lance Corporal | 720 |
Marine | 2,980 |
Total | 7,000 |
Royal Marine trained personnel strength as at 1 August 2015.
Table 2:
Royal Navy | |||
Paid Rank | Fleet Air Arm | General Service | Submariners |
Admiral | 1 | - | - |
Vice Admiral | - | 5 | 2 |
Rear Admiral | 5 | 16 | 8 |
Commodore | 14 | 41 | 15 |
Captain | 40 | 160 | 50 |
Commander | 180 | 540 | 160 |
Lieutenant Commander | 390 | 1,050 | 240 |
Lieutenant | 510 | 1,170 | 380 |
Sub Lieutenant | 20 | 90 | 10 |
Warrant Officer 1 | 110 | 520 | 120 |
Warrant Officer 2 | 10 | 60 | 140 |
Chief Petty Officer | 520 | 1,450 | 470 |
Petty Officer | 740 | 1,660 | 430 |
Leading Hand | 940 | 2,760 | 700 |
Able Rate | 1,330 | 4,280 | 1,290 |
Total | 4,820 | 13,800 | 4,020 |
The Royal Navy trained personnel strength as at 1 August 2015.
Table 3:
Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) | |
Paid Rank | RFA |
Commodore | 2 |
Captain | 40 |
Chief Officer | 70 |
First Officer | 90 |
Second Officer | 150 |
Third Officer | 250 |
Cadet, Rating to Officer (RTO) | 90 |
Chief Petty Officer | 90 |
Petty Officer | 170 |
Leading Hand | 200 |
Able Seaman | 610 |
Trainee | 150 |
Total | 1,910 |
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary strength as at 1 July 2015. The figures include Cadets and Trainees but exclude Apprentices.
Notes:
1. Source: Defence Statistics (Navy)
2. All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy; therefore totals may not equal the sum of their parts. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10 with numbers ending in 5 rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid bias. Strengths for Senior Officers have been left unrounded as statistics for these personnel are considered non-sensitive and are in the public domain.
- Denotes zero.