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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
The staff of officers, or active personnel, of the stam comprises, according
to the establishment of 1915, 306 officers, namely: 4 flag-officers, or
admirals, 8 commodores, 19 captains (kommendörkapten) of the first rank, 19
captains of the second rank, 101 lieutenant commanders, 104 lieutenants, and 51
sub-lieutenants. The naval officers are recruited from the naval cadets. Pursuant
to the new regulations in force since 1912, the naval cadets go through a
training of o1/3 years at the Sjökrigsskolan, or Naval School; immediately
after they have entered the School in the month of June they go through a
preparatory course on land, and afterwards a winter course and three summer
courses at. sea, alternating with two winter courses at the School on land.
The courses at sea are on ironclads and armoured cruisers, as well as, for
short periods, on smaller vessels. For admittance as a naval cadet one must
have passed the studentexamen, and be between 17 and 20 years of age. The
further training of the officers is accomplished, besides in the ordinary sendee
on board and on land, in short courses at sea (gunnery, torpedo, and signalling
courses), and in a seven months course at the Naval High School; occasionaly this
is followed up by a higher course at the High School. — There are several different
categories of officers belonging to the Reserves, altogether about 280 men. Most
of them are reserve officers belonging to the mercantile fleet who have passed
through a one year’s training courses in the fleet, with or without a shorter
repetitionsövning, or further course. Out of these about 40 are trained for service
in the coast artillery.
The non-commissioned officers (underofficer) belonging to the stam
number, according to the establishment of the year 1915, 227 of the first, and
454 of the second rank, to which must be added a few supernumerary engine
foremen, and about 25 non-commissioned officers on monthly pay, altogether
about 720 men. The non-commissioned officers are distributed over four
departments and ten branches of profession: the deck department, comprising
artillery and mines corporals and mates; the economics department, including
medical, commissariat, and band corporals; the engine department,
comprehending engine foremen, and the artisans’ department, containing armourers
(rustmästare), torpedo instructors, and quartermasters. The requirements for nomination
to non-commissioned officer are lVs to 2 years service as a petty officer. There
are reserve non-commissioned officers of different classes, numbering about 110.
The stammanskap, or professional sailors of the fleet, include sjömanskåren,
or body of seamen (in a wide sense) skeppsgossekdren, or the ship-boys. The
old system of distribution, in existence for over two hundred years, according
to which the sailors were classified into indelta, or "allotment seamen", and
roterade, or "equipment seamen", began to be discarded in 1888, and since
that time the organization of the fleet has undergone repeated alterations.
According to the establishment of the year 1915 the seamen (in .a wide sense)
number 4 000 men, distributed, like the non-commissioned officers, over four
departments, but comprising 17 professional lines. The grades are petty officers
(underofficerskorpral), corporals, and seamen (in a narrower sense), the latter
being divided into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class seamen. Chiefly for economic
purposes, the crews are further divided into 2 gunner companies, 2 signalling
companies, and 1 mines company, as well as 2 commissariat, 2 stoker, and 2
artificers’ companies. Admission to the Navy is gained, for 6 years service’, from
the corps of ship-boys (usually at the age of 18 or 19) by the process commonly
known as karlskrivning, which signifies the "writing", or enrolment, of the boy
as a "man", or seaman; or else by engagement by "contract", that is, enlistment,
for a period of from 31/2 to 6 years. Reengagement. for a term of 1 year at
a time is in certain cases permissible, in others obligator, for participation in
the instruction of a school for petty officers.
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