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Originally Posted by Guzzman
Hi Tony
Being a rather specialist elite, I don't suppose many Clearance Divers volunteered for service on the Royal Yacht! Most of the ones I knew went into commercial diving, working on oil rigs in the North Sea, etc. Great blokes but not the sort of guys I could see passing round the cucumber sandwiches or polishing the brasswork on HMY Britannia!
Therefore I doubt if there was ever any need to make white-on-blue badges for Clearance Divers.
Cheers
Pete
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I forget the exact term, but what were known as 'cuff rate' divers were carried on just about all ships. These were not clearance divers but part-timers from other primary specialties - gunners, TAS, engineering, electrical etc. who qualified as shallow water divers. They occasionally did such things as untangling nets, hull inspections, life-buoy sentry duties etc. They wore a plain diver's helmet badge on the left cuff. I'm pretty sure the Royal Yacht, like any other ship, would have carried some of these ratings.