NOTE: THESE PICTURES ARE NOT THUMBNAILS.  THEY CAN NOT BE INCREASED IN SIZE.

ALMA MATER: HMS VERNON.  Portsmouth

The 1953 Review programme showed a DIVER'S badge like this

Addition of crowns and stars to branch badges.

  PO'S AND BELOW CPO'S
BRANCHES 1
Star		 2
Stars		 Crown Crown
plus
2 Stars		 Crown Crown
plus
1 Star		 Crown
plus
2 Stars
Gunnery.
TAS.
Radar.
Wireless Telegraphy.
Visual Signalling.
PTI.		 3rd class Part II or specialist qualification 2nd class Part II or specialist qualification 1st class Part II or specialist qualification Instructor rate 2nd class or lower Part II or specialist qualification 1st class Part II or specialist qualification Instructor rate
Naval airmen except Fitters and Mechanics [A] [E] [O]  As above As above As above Not applicable As above As above Not applicable
Others including Naval airmen Fitters and Mechanics [A] [E] [O] Technical qualification for the able rate Technical qualification for the leading rate Petty officer qualified for higher rate of  pay Not applicable CPO's qualified for lower rate of pay CPO's qualified for higher rate of  pay Not applicable

Letters indicating specialization within  branches [but not qualifications]

DIVING

Clearance Diver C

This letter 'C' is very important because it signifies the only specialist [expert]  divers in the Royal Navy covering deep sea and shallow waters. They were [possibly are] in great demand from every source be it NAVAL, MILITARY or CIVIL, NATIONAL or INTERNATIONAL.  Members of this small but elite branch should not be confused with SHIP'S DIVERS.  Ship's Divers are volunteers from the Fleet, from many branches, to train to be shallow water divers, and who are used as such when the need occurs in their ship.  In addition to their main parent branch badge, they wear a divers helmet on the cuff of their right sleeve and they are paid extra money for having this extra qualification.  Regrettably, they were not recognised in any of the three Fleet Review programmes being used to compile these pages.

 

 

Takes some believing, but the DIVER'S branch wasn't even mentioned in the 1977 Review programme