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![[Naval Auxiliary Ensign]](../images/g/gb~rnx-e.gif)
image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 17 December 2001
Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (Obsolete)
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In Britain a vessel flying an auxiliary service ensign has a civilian crew that is not subject to the Naval Discipline Act. A naval auxiliary is not commissioned and any armament carried is for defensive purposes only and must not be used offensively.
David Prothero, 13 June 2001
![[Naval Auxiliary Ensign]](../images/g/gb~rnx-b.jpg)
image located by David Prothero, 13 June 2001
![[Royal Naval Auxiliary Service Senior Officer]](../images/g/gb~rnxso.gif)
image by Miles Li, 19 June 2004
This was the flag of a Royal Naval Auxiliary Service Senior Officer, but no longer in use.
Source: H.M. Stationery Office (1958)
Miles Li, 19 June 2004
![[Naval Mine Watching Service]](../images/g/gb~rnmws.gif)
image located by Peter Edwards, 5 April 2018
The ensign of the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service is obsolete. It was originally established in 1952 as the Royal Naval Minewatching Service. The Minewatching Service badge was the same, except that the letters in the panel below the naval crown were RNMWS instead of RNXS. The name and badge were changed in 1962, and the R.N.X.S. was disbanded in 1994.
"Blue; over wavelets barry wavy of four white and blue a mine explosion proper."
David Prothero, 13 June 2001
Estb: 1952. Locations: ". . . [UK] observation points overlooking ports and
strategic waterways, in order to report
mines dropped by aircraft."
Ensign: Rectangle 1:2. [British Blue Ensign defaced]. "The ensign of the Royal Naval
Mine Watching Service was granted in 1953 by Royal_warrant.
. . . A circular yellow cable surmounted by [yellow] Naval Crown and [yellow]
panel inscribed RN MWS [in black] enclosing [a white] mine exploding in [a
white] Heraldic Sea against a blue background . . ."
"In 1962 the service
was amalgamated with the Admiralty Ferry Crews Association to become the Royal_Naval_Auxiliary_Service (R.N.X.S)."
Source: Image (by Dixon Hill) and Quotes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Naval_Minewatching_Service
Peter Edwards, 5 April 2018
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