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  Encyclopedia
Revenue raised by the new tariffs would be used to free royal officials from financial dependence on colonial assemblies, thus further encroaching on colonial autonomy.
The Impartial Administration of Justice Act allowed a royal official or soldier accused of a capital crime in Massachusetts to be tried in England, where he would not have to face a hostile colonial jury.
In 1781, however, the Royal Navy did not have enough ships of the line to blockade both French ports and at the same time to supply the garrison at Gibraltar, which required continuous fighting to break through the allied fleets off that port.
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 Navy Department Annual Report Extracts: 1909-1918
The President recently signally honored the Navy by intrusting to this department the enforcement of the Executive order of August 5, which was necessary to prevent radio stations under the jurisdiction of the United States becoming the instrument through which unneutral messages were sent to vessels at sea or to other radio stations.
The Navy Department, however, through its own investigations and with the cooperation of the progressive American manufacturers of the apparatus, had come into possession of certain data that left no doubt as to the choice to be made.
New steel towers were erected at the Washington Navy Yard for use in communication with the low-power set at that place as an auxiliary in the event of breakdown at Arlington, and for experimental work in connection with the laboratory at that station.
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 World War I Letters - 1
In November of 1918, the Postal Express Service branch represented 0.15% of the total strength of the A.E.F. As the actual combat strength of the A.E.F. on November 11, 1918, was listed as 1,078,222, the P.E.S. probably comprised around 1,600 men.
However, since it was no longer necessary to provide a Navy escort, cruisers and battleships were conscripted to transport troops and the 1.5 million remaining soldiers were brought home even faster than we had sent them with an average of 15,000 men arriving home every day.
However their efforts were seriously hampered by the regulations governing the movement of military civilians in the forward areas.
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 Federalist Paper #69
The President of the United States is to have power to return a bill, which shall have passed the two branches of the legislature, for reconsideration; and the bill so returned is to become a law, if, upon that reconsideration, it be approved by two thirds of both houses.
The Parliament, it is true, is sometimes seen employing itself in altering the existing laws to conform them to the stipulations in a new treaty; and this may have possibly given birth to the imagination, that its co-operation was necessary to the obligatory efficacy of the treaty.
The one would have a concurrent power with a branch of the legislature in the formation of treaties; the other is the SOLE POSSESSOR of the power of making treaties.
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 US Navy Dive Manual
However, throughout the period of 1912 to 1939, the development of the Navy's F, H, and S class boats was marred by a series of accidents, collisions, and sinkings.
Navy diving was put in sharp focus, realizing it had only 20 divers who were qualified to go deeper than 90 fsw.
The Navy pushed for development of a rescue chamber that was essentially a diving bell with special fittings for connection to a submarine deck hatch.
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 Royal Canadian Navy
The RCN was primarily employed for the protection of Canadian ports and shipping lanes, however a large number of Canadian Officers and Ratings served with the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Air Service.
The RCNVR was nicknamed "The Wavy Navy" due to the wavy rank rings worn by officers and the three wavy stripes on the seaman's collars.
The Regulating Branch was the basis of disciplinary and preventive policing in the Royal Canadian Navy.
www.mpmuseum.org /rcn.html   (862 words)

  
 Evacuation Of The Sick And Wounded In The Great War | Medical Front WWI
The A branch will be consulted in regard to the evacuation of the wounded, and the co-ordination of the Corps medical transport; or where a division is operating alone, the lines of communication transport, so that the wounded are evacuated from the field of operations.
This unit is not a mobile unit, but is capable of being moved as required by the use of special transport allotted by the I.G.C. The unit has accommodation for 200 cases, and is intended to receive cases from the field units, distributing them on the lines of communication in accordance with the accommodation available.
It forms a regulating station whereby the flow of patients is controlled, relieving the field units of their cases, and only retaining them within its own hands until vacancies for their reception are found on the lines of communication.
www.vlib.us /medical/evacn/evacn.htm   (4234 words)

  
 Nautical Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Officers in this branch are the "executive" stream, and follow normal STCW paths to gain watchkeeping and ship command certificates, as well as developing a deep specialisation in a particular warfare discipline, which includes aircrew.
The Navy is an Equal Opportunities Employer and now employs females in almost all areas at sea and ashore, apart from submarines and the Royal Marine Commandos.
There are also many opportunities for merchant navy officers and ratings to work for the RN part time, during their shore time or leave, as RNR officers.
www.nauticalcampus.org /public/careers/car_navy.htm   (993 words)

  
 Welcome to Navy Pensacola   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In addition to operating the Navy’s boot camp for enlisted Sailors, located at Great Lakes, NSTC is responsible for all the navy’s initial training programs, less the United States Naval Academy.
BRANCH CLINICS: In addition to providing medical care at the main facility, the Naval Hospital is responsible for medical care at 12 Branch Medical Clinics in four southeastern states: Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The mission of the Navy College Office is to provide voluntary educational opportunities that support and enhance education, training, career development, and improved quality of life for Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
www.naspensacola.navy.mil /baseguide2005/Resources/Pencommands.html   (14629 words)

  
 History of US Navy Uniforms, 1776-1981
In the Royal Navy he was an impressed prisoner, a former inhabitant of merchantmen or waterfront bars and bordellos.
However, the courage and tenacity of the Navy was impressive and their victories, especially in view of the massive land defeats, cause a new surge of pride in naval matters.
The dress prescribed was extremely somber and reflected the attitude of the Congress to eliminate the ornate trappings evidenced in the Royal Navy and move towards a democratic society.
www.history.navy.mil /library/online/uniform_history.htm   (8832 words)

  
 History of the Royal Naval Regulating Branch
The Regulating Branch has been responsible for good order and discipline in larger ships since the early 17th century when Ship's Marshals, assisted by Ship's Corporals were accountable for the conduct of the ship's company.
In 1945, a RN Regulating School was established at Beachwood Camp in Devon to train all regulating ratings and to maintain branch records.
The rank of Leading Regulator was chosen to reflect their role of being the junior members of the Regulating Branch and their increasing employment in wider regulating type duties, ashore and afloat.
www.rba93.com /history.htm   (2363 words)

  
 Public Consultation on RIP Act
The covert surveillance regulated by the 2000 Act and covered by this code is in two categories: intrusive surveillance and directed surveillance.
The Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
regulate the use of selection factors that refer to individuals known to be for the time being in the British Islands.
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 Guz, Plymouth, Devonport, Stoker, Chats, Pompey
As he had joined the Seaman’s branch, he was shunted off to other pastures, so we never knew if he broke the Chief’s heart or the other way around.
I learned from some of the "old salts" who had been in the Navy for at least two weeks that during the Great War somebody named Tickler supplied much of the tinned food to the service, so anything coming from a tin was naturally named a ‘Tickler’.
By the time he had finished with us we were proficient at standing to attention, sitting to attention, saluting to the left, saluting to the right, saluting on the march, saluting at the still, in fact in how to acknowledge anybody in authority.
www.naval-history.net /WW2MemoirAndSo02.htm   (8852 words)

  
 Treaty of Sevres, 1920
The Commission shall frame regulations as to the manner in which the accounts of all revenues and expenditure of the funds under its control shall be kept, the auditing of such accounts and the publication every year of a full and accurate report thereof.
All laws, decrees, regulations and circulars issued by the Turkish Government and containing abrogations, restrictions or amendments of such prerogatives and immunities shall be considered to such extent null and void.
As regards the legions referred to in Article 156, their system of recruiting shall be in principle regional, and so regulated that the Moslem and non-Moslem elements of the population of each region may be, so far as possible, represented on the strength of the corresponding legion.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/versa/sevres1.html   (10576 words)

  
 Postal
At the end of the war it was originally intended to retain a small regular Postal Branch in the Royal Navy but the Admiralty eventually decided to transfer peacetime mail duties to the Regulating Branch and form a Postal Branch of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Thus the Royal Naval Volunteer (Postal) Reserve Branch was formed in 1961 and subsequently transferred to the Special Branch of the Royal Naval Reserve in 1959 and became a Branch of the Royal Naval Reserve in its own right from 1st June 1976.
The Branch was headed by a Director of Naval Postal Services (Designate) a post which was held by Captain R 0 Bonnett VRD RNR.
battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com /Postal.html   (344 words)

  
 THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS (SPRING 1941): PART IV
The Navy was to be responsible for securing the sea lanes and was to contact the Italian Navy for this purpose as well as for the procurement of the necessary shipping space.
The invader's navy must be able to provide full protection for the convoys that have to bring up tanks, heavy weapons, and supplies of all types.
The command channels regulating interservice cooperation must be clearly defined and unity of command over both airborne and seaborne forces must be firmly established.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/20_260_4.htm   (7282 words)

  
 Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - History Of WRANS
In April 1941 the Royal Australian Navy employed 14 Civilian Females who had been trained privately as Wireless Telegraphists, and the first of them started work at HMAS Harman, the RAN’s ‘W/T’ station near Canberra, to relieve the acute shortage of male operators caused by Australia's involvement in WW2.
WRANS were employed in the categories: cook, steward, writer, stores victualling, regulating, radio operator, radar plot, motor transport driver, electronic technical communications, dental and medical.
They enlisted in the RAN with the rank of sub-lieutenant on probation and after undergoing training as naval officers at HMAS Creswell then undertook familiarisation at the RAN Medical Training School at HMAS Cerberus, after which they were posted to billets in either the RAN Hospital, HMAS Penguin, in Sydney or the RAN hospital.
www.gunplot.net /wrans/wrans1.htm   (645 words)

  
 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill
(e) the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Deputy Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary;
(a) in relation to the Royal Navy Regulating Branch, if he is subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957 or is a civilian to whom Parts I and II of that Act for the time being apply by virtue of section 118 of that Act ;
(c) in relation to the Royal Air Force Police, if he is subject to air-force law or is a civilian to whom Part II of the Air Force Act 1955 for the time being applies by virtue of section 209 of that Act.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199900/ldbills/104/00104--g.htm   (3398 words)

  
 Politics in Thailand
The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of University Affairs, the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Transport and Communications are concerned with laying down the ground works of social and physical infrastructure and welfare for Thai society.
Organized into divisions and combat regiments, the Royal Thai Army is divided into four army regions, covering Bangkok and the central Plains, the Northeast, the North and the South.
The Royal Navy has a marine corps, modelled on the American pattern, skilled in both amphibious and jungle operations.
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 Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters
In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.
The President is to be the "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States.
Every jurist of that kingdom, and every other man acquainted with its Constitution, knows, as an established fact, that the prerogative of making treaties exists in the crown in its utmost plentitude; and that the compacts entered into by the royal authority have the most complete legal validity and perfection, independent of any other sanction.
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 Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
In the fleet during this era (when the RAN actually had an Aircraft Carrier) the people who controlled the testing and issuing of Pusser's Licenses were the members of the Birdy Branch.
The Naval Air branch were the driving elite in the RAN at this time in history, carrying themselves with the air of Formula One Aces.
There we were 4 budding, potential ship's drivers, all General Service 'Dib Dabs' from HMAS Derwent waiting in the Birdies Reg Office feeling quite privileged to do so mind you, when the Warrant Officer Birdie walked in.
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 The Bluejacket
The mission of the Veterinary Food Inspections Branch is to protect the health and welfare of active duty military, their dependents and other authorized persons.
Chapter President, U.S. Navy Commander Maurice Tyler, retired submarine commander, announced that there are more than 1,000 retired military officers residing in the Shelby County area, and that every one of them are eligible to become a TROA member.
Rear-Adm.-select Hufstader is known to tell staff: “In 30 years of living in various Navy towns, I’ve never lived in one more supportive than Pensacola.” That also extends to the civilian medical institutions that have “partnered” with the Naval Hospital on the care of Navy families.
www.nsamidsouth.navy.mil /publications/bluejacket/2001/bj010913.htm   (7948 words)

  
 Lecture 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
There is a provision in the Act for other authorities to be named later and for organisations to be named as public authorities only for relevant parts of their work.
It is claimed that the Act will regulate the use of these techniques and safeguard the public from unnecessary invasion of privacy.
the Provost Marshal of the Royal Navy Regulating Branch;
www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /~rws/CS122/lecture7.html   (4084 words)

  
 About CAMPVets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
We are very mindful of the sacrifices made by our predecessors in the Canadian Provost Corps, the Royal Canadian Air Force Police and the Royal Canadian Navy Regulating Branch, and equally proud of their hard earned traditions.
It is from their legacies that the Canadian Forces created the current Military Police Branch, symbolized by the insignia of the Thunderbird.
As we grow, it is our hope to become a conduit for our retired members to contact each other, and to renew the friendships that can only be found in a police organization as unique as ours.
www.campvets.ca /about.htm   (381 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Amendments to Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act 2.- (1) Part I of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act shall be amended as follows.
Revocation 11.- The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Prescription of Offices, Ranks and Positions) Order 2000() is hereby revoked.
Designated individuals in the public authorities listed in Part I of Schedule 1 are entitled to authorise directed surveillance and the use and conduct of covert human intelligence sources under sections 28 and 29 of the 2000 Act, respectively.
www.stand.org.uk /DirectedSurveillance.doc   (1039 words)

  
 [No title]
A Royal Marine or Marine Cadet, so called because of the leather stocks Marines wore round their necks in olden days, which lead to the nickname of Leatherneck, evolving into Bootneck
The origins lie in the blue-grey colour of the RAF uniform, which was apparently the same colour as the mercuric oxide jelly used at the beginning of the last century through to the beginning of this one, for the treatment of body lice (crabs)
It is pronounced Ma'am to rhyme with Marmalade, not Mam to rhyme with Jam
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 1937 Ratings - Branch Badges - Distinguishing Badges - Royal Navy - Regulating Branch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1937 Ratings - Branch Badges - Distinguishing Badges - Royal Navy - Regulating Branch
1937 Ratings - Branch Badges - Distinguishing Badges - Royal Navy
Formerly Ship's Police, although there is no connection between the two branches - in view of the awful reputation of the Ship's Police.
www.pbenyon.plus.com /RN/Badges/Reg.html   (48 words)

  
 Welcome to The Toronto Naval Club! Norrie Millen's Web Page
H.M.S. I joined the Royal Navy on May 7 1957, at H.M.S. St Vincent.
It had been home to other branches and served many purposes in its long history.
We went as far as it is possible to go inland on the Great Lakes to the lake head of Lake Superior, no Royal Naval ship has ever repeated this amazing trip.
www.candoo.com /ncot/norrie.htm   (1180 words)

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