Warrant-Officers

cla es—gunners, boatswains, and carpenters, and under ordinary circumstances the rank of gunner is the highest to which ordinary seamen can rise. The pay varies from 5s. 6d. to 9s. a day, and there may be extras for performing special duties. Most of the warrant officers of the present day are highly educated and very efficient, and their numbers have been raised from one of each cla for each ship to four or five, and a certain proportion of them are appointed to command torpedo boats. They are occasionally raised to the rank of lieutenant, and are more often allowed to a ume that rank on their retirement. In the Navy they rank with, but before, midshipmen they can rise to a pension; of,£150 a year, and their; widows are also entitled to a pension.