Chief Warrant officer Three one-half inch stripes. Warrant officer Two one-half inch stripes. Chief Petty officer One stripe three-sixteenths of an inch wide. The uniforms of the enlisted men are of the usual sailor cut common to the navies of most naval powers. The blue uniform consists of a dark blue flat cap with the name of the ship in gilt upon a cap ribbon around the band; a loose jumper worn over a tight jersey, and trousers of the sailor cut with wide spring at the bottoms of the legs. The white uniforms consist of a white flat cap, white duck jumper and white trousers. The rating is indicated by stars in the corners of the wide collar. These stars are of a material resembling celluloid and first class petty officers wear three such stars in each corner of the collar, second class petty officers two stars and first class seamen one star. The branch of the service or the special duty detail of an enlisted man is indicated by a specialty mark worn on the left sleeve midway between the elbow and the shoulder, petty officers wearing a crown above the specialty mark, these marks being as follows:— Deck force A vertical foul anchor. Engineroom and Fireroom force A three-bladed propeller. Quartermasters (Wheelmen) An anchor with a steering wheel on the shank. Writers Two swords crossed. Torpedomen An anchor with a bursting bomb on the shank. Gunnery force An anchor with two cannon crossed on the shank. Radio men An anchor with bars of zig-zag lightning across the shank. Mining force A ship’s anchor with a mine anchor crossing it. Band musicians A lyre. Hospital attendants A Geneva cross. Cooks and stewards Two blades of wheat crossed. For Chief Petty officers these specialty marks are in gold embroidery and for others in yellow for blue coats and jumper shirts and for all ratings they are in black for white coats and jumpers. Aviation pilots, both officers and men, wear the aviation insignia on the right breast. This insignia is of silver and consists of a wreath of leaves surmounted by an Imperial crown with a spread eagle across the wreath. UNIFORMS OF THE GERMAN NAVY