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		Battery	Brigade of four batteries	Brigade of six batteries	Brigade of eight batteries
Lieutenant-commander			1	1	1
Sub-lieutenant		1	4	6	8
Chief petty officer		1	4	6	8
First-class petty officer		2	8	12	16
Second-class petty officer		2	8	12	16
Buglers		2	8	12	16
Leading gunners and gunners (equivalent to leading seamen and able seamen) $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$		71	275	421	563
		51	195	301	403
Staff $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Lieutenant-instructor		1	1	1
	First-class petty officer instructor	1	4	6	8
	Surgeon		1	1	1
	Bugle-major		1	1	1
	Armourer		1	1	1
Total enrolled $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$		80	320	480	640
		60	240	360	480

In this table, two numbers divided by a line signify the maximum and minimum strength—thus 80/60 means not more than 80 and not less than 60.

Persons wishing to organise a corps to form part of a brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers should place themselves in communication with the Secretary of the Admiralty.

Whenever it is practicable, a brigade will be formed at each of the large ports in the kingdom, and the batteries composing the brigade will be raised in the immediate neighbourhood of the port.

When the Volunteers are not of sufficient strength