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Revision as of 01:20, 6 February 2014
A surgeon's mate was a rank in the Royal Navy for a medically trained assistant to the ship's surgeon. The rank was renamed assistant surgeon in 1805, and was considered equivalent to the rank of master's mate/mate.[1] In 1807, first-rate would have three, a third-rate two, and frigates and sloops one.[2]
A surgeon's mate was responsible for visiting patients in the sick bay and attending to their needs. Along with the surgeon, he would examine patients during morning sick call. He would make daily rounds of men already in the sick bay, while the loblolly boy would feed, wash and shave bedridden patients. The mate would prepare and administer medicines in the sick-bay, dress wounds and skin ulcers, and bleeding men who needed it. He was responsible for maintaining the ship's surgical instruments, for keeping accurate records of medicines and expenditures, for inspecting the cook's pots and pans, and for supervising the loblolly boy.[3]
Surgeon mates had a similar shipboard status to midshipmen and master's mates, and were berthed with them in the gunroom.[4] However, they were comparatively very well paid, earning £9 2s per month in 1815, equivalent to a lieutenant on a flagship and three times as much as a master's mate.[5]
Footnotes
- ↑ "The organization of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy". http://www.pdavis.nl/Ranks.htm#COM. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
- ↑ Lavery 1989, p. 328
- ↑ King 2001, pp. 36,37
- ↑ Lewis 1960, p. 268
- ↑ Lewis 1960, p. 304
References
- King, Dean (2001). A Sea of Words: Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales. Henry Holt. ISBN 0805066152. http://books.google.com/books?id=JKY8yZFChX4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=A+Sea+of+Words#PPA299,M1. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- Lavery, Brian (1989). Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870212583. http://books.google.com/books?id=DVE5YzfTir4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nelson%27s+Navy+Lavery. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- Lewis, Michael (1960). A Social History of the Navy. London: Ruskin House.
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