Posted by Adam Quinan on September 18, 2007 at 17:42:53 from 192.75.48.150 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: existentialism and luggage to RN Rank abbreviations posted by Owen Roberts on September 18, 2007 at 16:48:25:
Commodores (Cdre.) were temporary appointments of captains over a squadron of ships or a large naval base (e.g. Portsmouth or Chatham), they were equivalent to brigadiers. It was only in 1996 that it became a substantive rank in the Royal Navy.