Seaman branch - post 1950 rate badges
Seaman – Quartermaster branch.
Former Torpedo Coxswains (TC), among other rates, were absorbed into the newly created Quartermaster branch. This was the Seaman branch of the RCN & the name was later changed to the Boatswain branch.
Illustrated below are Quartermaster (QM)/Boatswain (BN) & Quartermaster Instructor (QI) rate badges. The embroidery below the ship's wheel is intended to be a boatswain's pipe.
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