Disbursing Clerk

LAST NAME FIRST NAME From To Rate CITY STATE
Villamil Ernesto 63 65 DKCM Annapolis MD
Forrest Henry 59 61 DKC Dorchester MA
Allocca Tony 68 69 DK2 Bristol CT
Kittinger Jim 65 68 DK2 Sturgeon Bay WI
Wilms Jr. John 65 67 DK2 Long Beach CA
Archer Don 63 65 DK3 Wataga IL
Bond Robert 63 65 DK3 Mobile AL
Martini Tony 59 62 DK3 Grandville MI
Neary Michael 67 69 DK3 San Francisco CA
Gallagher (L) James 63 65 DKSN Lawndale CA
Warren Steve 63 67 DN Tulsa OK

(D)= Deceased
??= Information not provided
(L) = Last Known Address

Disbursing Clerks
History

The Disbursing Clerk rating was established in 1948 from the wartime rating of storekeeper (D) (Disbursing Clerk). However, way back in 1861 there was a Paymaster's Steward that was changed to Paymaster's Writer in 1870 and changed again to Paymaster's Yeoman in 1878.

Under the pay scale of today's Navy a seaman apprentice upon completion of recruit training is entitle to twice as much base pay as was a captain of the new Navy nearly 200 years ago. To protect our commerce at sea, an act of Congress (27 March 1794) authorized the building and manning of six frigates. The act contained only nine sections, three of which had to do with pay and subsistence and allowed that the monthly pay of commissioned and warrant officers and enlisted personnel should be as follows: Captains, $75.00; Surgeons, $50.00; Lieutenants, Chaplains, Sailing Masters, and Pursers, $40.00; Surgeon's Mates, $30.00; Lieutenants of Marines, $26.00; Boatswains, Gunners, Sailmakers and Carpenters, $14.00. Petty Officers, midshipmen, seamen, ordinary seamen, and marines would receive pay as fixed by the President, "provided that the whole sum to be given for the whole pay aforesaid shall not exceed $27,000 per month." When it is considered that the six vessels involved in the original law were authorized a total complement of close to 2,000 enlisted personnel it can be readily seen that the financial lot of the petty officer and seamen was anything but lucrative.