Editing Royal Navy (section)

==Ranks, rates and insignia==
{{See also|Royal Navy officer rank insignia|Royal Navy other rank insignia}}

The Royal Navy ranks, rates and insignia form part of the uniform of the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy uniform is the pattern on which many of the uniforms of the other national navies of the world are based (e.g. [[Ranks and insignia of NATO navies officers]], [[Uniforms of the United States Navy]], [[Uniforms of the Royal Canadian Navy]], [[French Navy#Uniforms|French Naval Uniforms]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/France/Navy/c_Captains1.html|title=The French Navy and the Men Who Commanded It: Captains Who Served in the French Navy during the period 1791–1815|publisher=Napoleon Series|access-date=30 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107211759/http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/France/Navy/c_Captains1.html|archive-date=7 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

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<sup>1</sup> Rank in [[abeyance]] – routine appointments no longer made to this rank, though honorary awards of this rank are occasionally made to senior members of the Royal family and prominent former First Sea Lords.