Lieutenant (Royal Canadian Navy)

When the naval rank lieutenant is written or typed, it is followed by the letter N to indicate that it is a naval rank to distinguish it from army and air force lieutenants (and therefore, the (N) remains silent as it must not be pronounced or replaced by the word (Navy)).

[1] Typical appointments for a lieutenant(N) include: The rank insignia for a lieutenant(N) is two ½-inch (13 mm) stripes with the executive curl on the top stripe, worn on the cuffs of the service dress jacket, and on slip-ons on other uniforms.

As junior officers, they wear one gold band along the edge of the visor of their service caps.

Lieutenants of the Naval Operations Branch wear the officer's pattern of the branch cap badge: an anchor on a black oval, surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves at the sides and base of the oval, the whole surmounted by the St Edward's Crown.

Prior to unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968, rank structure and insignia followed the British pattern.