The following is the scale of pensions for officers and seamen wounded and worn-out in the service : Per An. Per An.
£. 8.
For an admiral, from 300 0 to 700 0 captain (wounds) 250 0{Los1300 0 commander 150 0 of 200 CI lieutenant 91 5 limb 91 5 Marine officers, as in the army.
Every mate, second master, assistant surgeon, midshipman, master's assistant, naval instructor, clerk, and volunteer of the first and second class, from Is. to 2s. 6d. a day, according to the nature and degree of the injury.
Boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and engineers, when unfit for farther service, receive a superannuation allowance of 3/. a year for each year they served in a ship in commission, and 11. a year each year in ordinary, and a further sum of from 1/. to 15/. a year may be added by the Admiralty. They retain besides any pension for servitude as a petty-officer to which they may be entitled, and for wounds from 15/ to 50/. a year in addi tion to all other pensions.
Every other petty officer, seaman, ma rine, and boy, shall receive for wounds from 6d. to 2s. a day ; and every able seaman for twenty-one years' servitude, reckoning from the ar of twenty, from 10d. to Is. id. a day ; if discharged from infirmity after fourteen years service, from 6d. to 9d. a day ; and under four teen years' service, if discharged from disability contracted in the service, from 3d. to 6d. a day, or a gratuity in lieu, of 1/. to 181. If a man become totally blind, he shall have 3d. a day added to any of the above. Ordinary seamen receive three-fourths, landsmen two-thirds, boys half the able seamen's pension. Marines, as able seamen.
Certain petty and non-commissioned officers receive, in addition to the above, other allowances.
Persons discharged with disgrace, or by sentence of a court-martial, are not entitled to a pension. On a ship being paid-off, the captain may recommend any petty-officer or seaman, non-commis sioned officer or marine, for the medal and gratuity for invariable good con duct ; 15/. for first-class petty-officers and serjeants, if they have served as such ten years. 7/. to second-class petty-officers and serjeants who have served as such seven years, and 51. to able seamen and marines.
The widows of officers who are left in distressed circumstances, receive pensions on the following scale, under the regula tions and at the discretion of the Board of Admiralty The amount paid in pensions to officers for wounds and good service, to widows of officers, widows and relatives of officers There is a Naval College at Ports mouth.
There are two schools at Greenwich, called the Upper and Lower Schools. The Upper School comprises two classes : 1st. One hundred sons of commissioned and wardroom warrant-officers of the Royal Navy and marines.
2nd. Three hundred sons of officers of the above or inferior rank, of private seamen and marines who have served or are serving her Majesty, and of officers and seamen of the merchant service.
They are admitted from eleven to twelve years of age, under certain regu lations, and are subject to the same disci pline, diet, education, clothing, and des tination. The term of education is three years, at the expiration of which, or sooner if the course of education be com pleted, they are sent to sea in the queen's or merchant service, or otherwise dis posed of, as may be determined on.
The Lower School consists of 400 boys and 200 girls, the children of warrant and petty officers, seamen, and non-com missioned officers and privates of ma rines, who have served or are serving, or have lost their lives in the service of her Majesty. They are admitted from nine to twelve years of age, and quit at four teen, the boys being sent to sea, and the girls put to trades and household service ; any unprovided for at fourteen are sent to their parents. Any boy. may be re moved from this to the Upper School on obtaining a presentation, if not more than twelve years old, and possessing character and abilities.
In 1744, as already observed, all prizes were declared to be the property of the captors ; the scale of the distribution of prize-money was fixed by order in coun cil, Feb. 3, 1836. When any ship of the Royal Navy carries bullion or jewels on freight, the captain or commander is allowed a per centage, regulated by the queen in coun cil, as compensation for the risk and charge, one-fourth part of which is given to Greenwich Hospital, one-fourth part to the commander-in-chief, if he shares the responsibility, and the other half to the captain.