Comments on: A Guide To Merchant Navy Uniform

By: Marc Meinzer

Marc Meinzer — Thu, 19 May 2022 16:30:03 +0000

Uniforms silly except on passenger ships;work uniforms should be khaki not dress colors. Virtually no Anerican seamen wear uniforms any more

By: Harbhajan Singh

Harbhajan Singh — Wed, 18 May 2022 23:52:43 +0000

I love marchant navy officer

By: Mike Quinn

Mike Quinn — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:59:01 +0000

Just like to point out that your whole page seems to contain a lot of errors.
You seem to continuously refer to Engineers and “Officers”.
Engineers ARE Officers, what you are referring to as Officers are in fact Mates, it says so on their CoC’s
Please use the correct terminology, either Deck and Engineering officers, or Engineers and Mates.

Thank you.

By: Anish

Anish — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:13:39 +0000

In reply to Girish Wani. @Girish: Thank you for your comment ??

By: Girish Wani

Girish Wani — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 06:43:04 +0000

I really liked the article. To the point. Even lay man can understand. Also liked the brief description on the inception of uniforms.
keep up the good work.

By: Raunek

Raunek — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 07:01:04 +0000

In reply to Pat. You are absolutely right, sir!

By: Anish

Anish — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:30:51 +0000

In reply to Pat. @Pat: Well said ??

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:40:51 +0000

stripes dont mean much to me, attitude and work ethic is much more meaningful to all on board. just saying.

By: Hasan

Hasan — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:53:35 +0000

On board ship, ETO is a most wanted, importent person who do most critical works along (as one person army) most of the time. But intentionally neglected person by most of the fellow colleagues…. Sorry to say

By: Anish

Anish — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:36:27 +0000

In reply to Jostein Gravvik. @Jostein: The number of stripes varies from region to region.

By: Anish

Anish — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:35:22 +0000

In reply to Sidharth. @Sidhart: The diagram just shows the interdepartmental ranks. The spacing of the epaulettes does not indicates the superiority of any rank. However, as per ISM, the captain is considered to be the overall in-charge out of all ranks. Except that, rest of the ranks position is just for diagrammatical representation purpose. As shown in the other diagram, the rank/function of Chief officer and second engineer in their respective department is similar.

By: Sidharth

Sidharth — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:48:28 +0000

Marine Insight very disappointing depiction…how come chief officer is above Second Engineer …Nowadays I am seeing this trend of Chief Officers(esp Indian ) think they are equal to Chief Engineer and try unsuccessfully to boss around Second Engineer …This depiction of yours is very unfortunate and I would say hurtfull to self respecting engineers , who believe Chief Engineers is equivalent if not equal to Captains … I would add one more point usually Chief Officers need help of Second Engineer not the other way round …. Please modify or remove this post ….

By: Jostein Gravvik

Jostein Gravvik — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:23:03 +0000

Shouldn’t there be a 1st. Engineer too with 3 stripes, 2nd. Engineer then with 2 stripes?

By: Daniam Castellanos

Daniam Castellanos — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:12:29 +0000

According to the STCW, ETO = Electro Technical Officer

By: Anish

Anish — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:41:11 +0000

In reply to Peter. We have mentioned the details of ETO inside the article. It is not shown in the image.