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NAVY.
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establishment of 1915, 1 288 men, distributed into 12 artillery, 4 mining, and
2 artisan companies. The grades are underofficerskorpral, or petty officer,
corporals, and meniga, the latter 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class gunners
(kust-artillerister). Admission is obtained by "contract", that is, enlistment, for a
term of from 3 to 4 years. Training is undergone chiefly in schools for recruits,
corporals, non-commissioned officers, gunnery, and mining, and in
tillämpningsövningar (42 days).
The Conscripts consist of those enrolled for service in fortresses; at present
they number 1 187 military fit (vapenföra) and 416 military unfit (icke
vapenföra). The training in time of peace is for the former 323 days at a stretch,
commencing in the first or second year, and a further course (repetitionsövning)
of 42 days during the fourth year, for the latter (the military unfit) 240 days
at a stretch. Students etc. are trained for 500 days.
The civil-military personnel is taken from the naval engineers, the naval
inten-dants, and the naval medical officers, except the auditörer or naval lawyers, the
regimental chaplains, and the bandmasters, who are appointed from the Coast
Artillery.
Under the Navy Department, are the Lotsverket, or Pilot Service, the
Sjökarteverket, or Nautical Chart Office, the Nautisk-meteorologiska
byrån, or Nautico-Meteorological Office, the Navigation Schools, the Kungl.
örlogsmannasällskapet, or "Royal Man-of-war Society", and Flottans
Pensionskassa, or Navy Pension Fund, and in certain respects the
Sjö-manshus, or Seamen Registry Offices.
A hrief mention must be made of those of the above institutions which
are not dealt with in other sections of this work (cf. Index).
The Kungl. Örlogsmannasällskapet was founded at Stockholm in 1771, with
the object of sustaining and promoting the study and exercise of naval tactics.
In 1778 it was resolved to remove the Society’s sphere of activity to
Karlskrona, which has continued to be its headquarters ever since the first meeting
of the Society there in 1784. By royal letters-patent of the 9th May 1805 the
Society was placed under royal patronage. The Society consists of an unlimited
number of honorary members and corresponding members, and a definite number
of active members (officers, and those of equivalent rank, in the Navy). Each
year a föredragande or "reporter" is elected in different branches of naval science,
on whom it devolves to present the annual report ’to the Society. Since 1835
the Society publishes a nautical periodical called the "Tidskrift i Sjöväsendet".
Flottans Pensionskassa, or Navy Pension Fund (embracing the whole Navy)
originates from the fund called "Amiralitetsarmbössan", afterwards converted
into "Amiralitetskrigsmannakassan", which in the early nineties was rechristened
with the less clumsy name of "Flottans Pensionskassa". The latter, which is
partly a private, partly a State institution, is governed by fullmäktige, or delegates,
nominated by the members; it is administered by a Royal Board (Direktion),
the headquarters of which is at Karlskrona, and which consists of a president,
three directors with two deputies, a first commissioner, and seven officials. The
monies which it administers are the funds called the pensionsfond and the
gratialfond, members’ fees, special grants, interests, fines and penalties, etc.
The officers and non-commissioned officers, and those of equivalent rank are
ipso facto members of the Fund. In certain cases seamen can obtain from
Statsverket or the Public Treasury, the grant of a pension to be paid out by
the Fund, although seamen do not, strictly speaking, belong to it.
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