fleet chief petty officer

Fleet chief petty officers wore the same rank badge as their army and air force equivalents, the royal coat of arms.

The rank was initially titled as fleet chief petty officer, becoming warrant officer in the 1980s.

Fleet chief petty officer is a non-commissioned naval rank, typically senior to chief petty officer and ranking with army warrant officers.

From 1973, fleet chief petty officer, commonly known and addressed as "fleet chief", was also the highest non-commissioned rank in the British Royal Navy.

Sherry-ann Edwards became the first female fleet chief petty officer in the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard.

They were initially known as fleet chief petty officers (FCPOs), but were renamed warrant officers in the 1980s.

A RN Warrant Officer Class 1 incorporated the former rank of Fleet Chief Petty Officer.

The Instructor Rate began to disappear in 1972 when Fleet Chief Petty Officers (Warrant Officers) were introduced.

Fleet chief petty officer is a commissioned and gazetted rank in Pakistan Navy above chief petty officer and below master chief petty officer.

It is equivalent to Pakistan Army's Naib Subedar and Pakistan Navy's Fleet Chief Petty Officer.

Coombes glanced at the men around him: Fleet Chief Petty Officer 'Bull' Clint, his extrovert cox'n on the planes was keeping the ordered depth of two hundred feet.

In 1970, the rate of Fleet Chief Petty Officer (FCPO) was introduced, with equivalent status to a Army/RAF Warrant Officer, as the most senior rating status.

The soldier and NCO rates are seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer second class, petty officer first class, chief petty officer, senior chief petty officer and fleet chief petty officer.

Fleet Chief Petty Officer Raja Ghulam Shabbir of Pakistan Navy from Village Daryal, Mohra Pakhral, who later served as Survey Officer of Terbela Dam.

In 1970 a new rank of Fleet Chief Petty Officer was introduced, with insignia of the royal coat of arms on the lower arm, the same as a Warrant Officer Class 1 in the army and RAF, to which the new rank was exactly equivalent.