Crown & government
Outer service
Also called outward service · the service
The realm's long-service establishment on the outer stations and routes, often second-generation and marrying within itself, with its own registers, customs and records of failed reliefs.
Ties
- works alongside the Admiralty and the consular service
At the table
Every new superintendent reads the unpublished records of failed reliefs. It keeps more shipboard and relief custom than any other branch of British life, and it is currently seeking parties for relief work around besieged Port Saint Nicholas.