(2) Flag Ship.
(a) When Aircraft Carrier.
Named wing cabins are to be appropriated to Commanders as follows: -
(i) (aa) Admiral
(ab) Fleet Operation Officer
(ac) Fleet Navigating Officer
(ad) Admiral’s Staff Officer
(ii) Ships Staff
(aa) Commander
(ab) Commander (Air)
(ac) Commander (E)
(ad) Commander (L)
(ae) Commander (Logistics)
(af) Commander (ED)
(ag) Principal Medical Officer
(iii) Commander (AE) and Surg Commander (D) will be allocated named athwartships cabins alongwith other officers of the rank of Lt Cdr.
(b) When Cruiser.
Named cabins are to be appropriated for the following: -
(i) (aa) Admiral
(ab) Admiral’s Staff Officer
(ac) Flag Lieutenant
(ad) Fleet Operations Officer
(ae) Fleet Communications Officer
(ii) (aa) Captain
(ab) Executive Officer
(ac) Engineer officer
(ad) Electrical Officer
(ae) Logistics Officer
(af) Education Officer
(ag) Medical Officer
(ah) First Lieutenant
(aj) Navigating Officer
(ak) Senior Engineer
(al) NBCD Officer (Only if the officer is of the rank of Commander).
(am) Shipwright Officer
(c) Staff Officers other than those mentioned in sub-regulations (a) (i) and (b)
(i) shall be allocated numbered cabins in order of seniority together with the ship’s officers as in sub-regulation 5 (b).
(d) When a Flag ship is employed as a private ship, the cabins in (a) (i) and (b)
(i) above, may be occupied by other officers by seniority at the Captain’s discretion but must be vacated immediately they are required by the Flag Officer and his staff.
(3) Cruiser (when not the Flag Ship).
Named cabins are to be appropriated as in sub-regulation (2) (b) (ii).
(4) Destroyers/Frigates and other Ships.
(a) The named cabins in Frigates/Destroyers carrying helicopters be appropriated for the following: -
(i) Captain
(ii) Executive Officer
(iii) Engineer Officer
(iv) Electrical Officer
(v) Logistics Officer
(vi) Medical Officer
(vii) Navigating Officer
(viii) Flight Commander
(b) In a private self-accounting ship the Logistics officer shall be allocated a single named cabin in preference to the Electrical officer.
(c) A cabin may also be appropriated for then Senior Engineer in a position as near the engine room as is convenient and practicable.
(5) All Ships: -
(a) In an Aircraft Carrier an appropriate number of cabins will be allocated specifically for Squadrons. The pilots and observers borne for full operational flying duties will have precedence in so far as is necessary to provide them with such single cabins as are available, When the Squadrons are disembarked, their cabins may be temporarily occupied by other officers, with the Captain’s permission, but must be vacated immediately they are required by the Squadrons .
(b) Numbered Cabins will be provided for the remaining officers to whom they will be allocated in order of seniority subject to the following considerations: -
(i) Officers regularly employed on watch-keeping duties both at sea and in harbour are to take precedence over other officers of the same rank in so far as this may be necessary to provide them with single cabins if these are available.
(ii) Lieutenants and below who are more than 40 years of age will take precedence over all Lieutenants except those in sub-regulation (1), in so far as may be necessary to provide them with single cabins if these are available.
(iii) In his allocation of numbered cabins, the Captain should take into account the desirability of some dispersal of officers to reduce the effect of war or other damage.
(iv) An officer allowed by complement (including staff officers and permanent supernumeraries) will normally take precedence in cabin accommodation over an officer of whatever rank who is appointed supernumerary, additional, or for passage. The Captain may, however, make an exception in cases where officers are appointed additional to perform some special and important duty.
(v) An officer who elects to occupy a cabin which he is not normally entitled to, will do so on the clear understanding that if required to vacate it, he must take such other cabin as may then be vacant in order to cause the minimum of disturbance to other officers.
(vi) An officer borne in lieu of one of a higher or lower rank will be considered for cabin accommodation in respect of his actual rank.
(vii) The Captain is at liberty to retain one cabin for the use of officers without cabins who may be sick
(viii) Cabins will not be appropriated as offices without the sanction of the Chief of the Naval Staff.
(ix) An officer without any cabin will have precedence over other officers in allocation of an unnamed cabin whenever it falls vacant.
(6) The orders in which officers are mentioned in the various sub-regulations above for the allocation of cabins does not indicate the order of priority.
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SECTION III- MEESSING OF SHIP’S COMPANY