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</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data">1674</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next higher rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Rear_admiral_(Royal_Navy)" title="Rear admiral (Royal Navy)">Rear admiral</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Next lower rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Captain_(Royal_Navy)" title="Captain (Royal Navy)">Captain</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Equivalent ranks</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_(United_Kingdom)" title="Brigadier (United Kingdom)">Brigadier</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">Army</a>; <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Air_Commodore" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Commodore">Air Commodore</a> (<a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Commodore</b> (<b>Cdre</b>) is a rank of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> above <a href="/wiki/Captain_(Royal_Navy)" title="Captain (Royal Navy)">captain</a> and below <a href="/wiki/Rear_admiral_(Royal_Navy)" title="Rear admiral (Royal Navy)">rear admiral</a>. It has a <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> ranking code of <a href="/wiki/OF-6" class="mw-redirect" title="OF-6">OF-6</a>. The rank is equivalent to <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_(United_Kingdom)" title="Brigadier (United Kingdom)">brigadier</a> in the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Marines" title="Royal Marines">Royal Marines</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Air_commodore" title="Air commodore">air commodore</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a>. Commodore has only been a substantive rank in the Royal Navy since 1997. Until then the term denoted a functional position rather than a formal rank, being the title bestowed on the senior officer of a fleet of at least two naval vessels comprising an independent (usually ad hoc and short-term) command. (In this case, for instance, a lieutenant in substantive rank could be a commodore for the term of the command.) </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commodore_(Royal_Navy)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rank of commodore was introduced during the 17th century in November 1674 (though not legally established until 1806). In 1684 the navy introduced two classes of commodore, the first known as a <i>Commodore Distinction</i> and the other a <i>Commodore Ordinary</i>; these would later evolve into commodores first and second class. In 1734 the title of commodore was formally approved by an <a href="/wiki/Order_in_council" class="mw-redirect" title="Order in council">order in council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were formally separated into first class (those with subordinate line captains) and second class (those commanding ships themselves) in 1826. The previous broad red and blue pennants were abolished in 1864 along with the coloured squadrons, the commodore of the white's broad pennant with the Cross of St George remained as the <a href="/wiki/Command_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Command flag">command flag</a> for commodores first class, who wore the same sleeve lace as <a href="/wiki/Rear_admiral_(Royal_Navy)" title="Rear admiral (Royal Navy)">rear admirals</a>. The white broad pennant with a red ball was introduced as the command flag for commodores second class. The appointment of commodore first class has been in <a href="/wiki/Abeyance" title="Abeyance">abeyance</a> since 1958, leaving the pennant with a single red ball to cover all Royal Navy commodores. </p><p>Modern commodores wear the sleeve lace previously worn by commodores second class. Commodore has only been a substantive rank in the Royal Navy since 1997. Before then it continued to be an appointment conferred on senior captains holding certain positions.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, the senior commander of <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyers</a> within a fleet in the Royal Navy could carry the title of "Commodore (D)", while the fleet's senior commander of <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarines</a> could carry the title of "Commodore (S)", although in both cases as an appointment rather than a rank. During World War I the title of "Commodore (T)" was the officer who commanded <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">torpedo boat</a> flotillas.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Promotion_path">Promotion path</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commodore_(Royal_Navy)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Promotion path"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1570 to 1864 the Royal Navy was divided into <a href="/wiki/Coloured_squadrons_of_the_Royal_Navy" title="Coloured squadrons of the Royal Navy">coloured squadrons</a> which determined an officer's <a href="/wiki/Promotion_path_of_admirals_of_the_Royal_Navy_before_1864" class="mw-redirect" title="Promotion path of admirals of the Royal Navy before 1864">career path</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rank_insignia_and_personal_flag">Rank insignia and personal flag</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Commodore_(Royal_Navy)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Rank insignia and personal flag"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Commodore's command flag"><img alt="Commodore's command flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg/120px-UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="60" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg/180px-UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg/240px-UK-Navy-OF6-Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Commodore's command flag</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Royal_Navy_(sleeves)_OF-6.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Commodore's sleeve lace"><img alt="Commodore's sleeve lace" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg/47px-British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg.png" decoding="async" width="47" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg/70px-British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg/94px-British_Royal_Navy_%28sleeves%29_OF-6.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="75" data-file-height="191" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Commodore's sleeve lace</div> </li> </ul> <p>A modern commodore's rank insignia consists of a 45-millimetre-wide band of gold lace, with a circle of 13-millimetre-wide lace 45 millimetres in diameter above.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Former_command_flags">Former command flags</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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