Assistant Senior Mechanical Engineer

The title was introduced in 1886 by the Decree of Emperor Alexander III during the reorganization of the Marine Engineers Corps . In accordance with the Regulation on Naval Engineers and Fleet Mechanical Engineers, the title “Assistant Senior Mechanical Engineer” was introduced in lieu of the rank of staff captain ( lieutenant ) of the Fleet of Mechanical Engineers Corps. Corps officers were re-certified to this rank. ^[one]

The category of assistant senior mechanical engineer included 9 coastal positions:

- Junior Accounting Producers of the Marine Technical Committee (two positions)

- Assistant port mechanic in the port of Kronstadt , head of the mechanisms of the new Admiralty

- Mechanical engineer for checking estimates at the Kronstadt Shipping Plant

- Port engineer, mechanic, head of all coastal mechanisms in St. Petersburg port

- Technician for giving outfits in the St. Petersburg port

- Masters of workshops: turning and foundry in the new admiralty and shipbuilding on the Galerny island of the same port (two positions)

- Port engineer mechanic in the Sevastopol port.

and 109 ship posts on ships of the Navy were introduced. ^[2]

The rank belonged to the 9th grade of the Table of Ranks. The superior for him was the title of senior mechanical engineer , and the subordinate was the junior mechanical engineer .

For this title, the title “Your Honor” was established, according to which the personal nobility complained. It was intended for assistants to senior mechanics of ships of the 1st rank (second mechanics and assistants to the commander for the mechanical part).

In addition to the length of service of a certain qualification, the junior mechanical engineer was supposed to serve a certain number of months “in the campaign”, that is, in swimming, for production in this rank. To receive the title of assistant to a senior mechanical engineer, the junior mechanical engineer was required to serve in this rank for at least 4 years and during this time to complete 12 months of internal swimming or 24 months of foreign navigation.

The retired mechanical engineers, who did not already hold full-time positions in the fleet, could be registered in the corps for up to two years, while serving in other departments, on commercial vessels, or operating private seafaring enterprises, after which they were dismissed or in stock.

Having a length of service “in the campaign” of more than one hundred and twenty, but less than one hundred and eighty months, upon dismissal, they received, regardless of their pension, an annual pension in the amount of half the salary for the 1st category of the 1st table of the “Regulation on the monetary allowance of officers and class officers of the fleet” and those who served in the voyage over one hundred and eighty months received two thirds of the salary.

Assistants to a senior mechanical engineer could serve in active service until they reached the age limit of 47 years.

In 1905, the special ranks of the Corps were abolished, and mechanical engineers were equated with other naval officers who served "according to the Admiralty," as it was until 1874. Assistants to senior mechanical engineers were re-certified both as headquarters captains and as captains of the corps of mechanical engineers of the fleet, that is, with the upgrade to the 8th grade, the Rankings.

In 1913, with the transfer of the corps to ranks close to the ranks of the ship’s composition, this rank was abolished, and the assistants to the senior mechanical engineer were re-certified as mechanical engineer- captain .

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