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Dear Trevor,

please, can you explain the passage repeated below in more detail? I am sorry, 
but don't understand your interesting statements and I wish to understand 
them. Thank you.

Jan Kalivoda



----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor J. Kenchington" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Master & Commander



>Midshipmen, incidentally, were not one rung up from seamen but (in some
ways) one rung down from Lieutenants. In theory, they stood lower in the
on-board hierarchy but simultaneously they were seen as Sea
Officers-in-training and treated accordingly. So were those
ex-Midshipmen who had passed a Lieutenants and were serving as Master's
Mates while awaiting an appointment to commissioned rank, while those
seamen who had risen to Master's Mates on their way to a Master's
warrant were not.

   

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