§ Return ordered, "of numbers of Commissioned Officers, Subordinate and Warrant Officers, Petty Officers, Men, and Boys of the Executive Branch, Engineer Branch, and other Branches of the Royal Navy, borne on the first day of April,
| Executive Branch. | Engineer Branch. | Other Branches. | Royal Marines. | Grant Total | |||||||||||||||||
| Commissioned Officers. | Subordinate and Warrant Officers, including Master's Assistants and Cadets. | Petty Officers. | Men. | Total. | Commissioned Officers. | Subordinate Officers, i.e., Engineer Students. | Warrant Officers. | Chief and other Engine Room artificers. | Stokers. | Total. | Commissioned Officers. | Subordinate and Warrant Officers, i.e., clerks, assistant clerks, and carpenters. | Petty Officers. | Men. | Kroomen. | Total. | Commissioned Officers. | Warrant Officers. | Non-Commissioned Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Petty Officers. | Men. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| —(Sir John Colomb.) |
§ the United Kingdom belonging to Companies for the year 1899, in the following form:—
§ 1900, excluding Pensioners and Reserves; and a similar Return of the numbers of the Commissioned, Warrant, and Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Marine Forces, in the same form as that of Parliamentary Paper, No. 288, of Session 1898:—