Admiralty Fleet Order 4649 of 19th December 1940 describes and illustrates the Cap Badge – T124 Officers;
To be worn by Mercantile Marine officers employed under T124 agreements and who are not granted temporary commissions.
“distinctive clear anchor in gold on a raised black circular background surrounded by a double ring of gold wire resting on a laurel leaf design, surmounted by a crown.”
According to an internet source "At the beginning of the war the Royal Navy realised that it would not be able to man all the auxiliary vessels it required and so a number of officers and men of the Merchant Navy agreed to serve with the Royal Navy under the T.124 agreement, which made them subject to Naval discipline while generally retaining their Merchant Navy rates of pay and other conditions".
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