Editing Lieutenant commander (section)

==Protocol==
Some navies address Lieutenant Commanders by their full rank or the positions they occupy ("captain" if in command of a vessel).

In the British [[Royal Navy]], [[United States Navy]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] Navies however, officers are addressed by their full rank if their full name is being used, or the higher grade of the rank if the officer is being addressed or referred to in shorthand. Therefore Lieutenant Commander John Smith Royal Navy is addressed as "Commander" or "Commander Smith", and referred to as "Commander Smith".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/5000/Documents/5000-010.pdf |title=MILPERSMAN 5000-010 |date=22 Aug 2002 |publisher=[[U.S. Navy]] |access-date=28 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006095700/http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/5000/Documents/5000-010.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2016}}</ref><ref>Debrett's Correct Form: An Inclusive Guide to Everything from Drafting Wedding Invitations to Addressing an Archbishop. (1976). United Kingdom: Debrett's Peerage Limited. pp172</ref>

Famous examples of this are:

- [[Lionel Crabb|Lieutenant Commander Lionel Crabb Royal Navy]] who in conversation, biopics, Admiralty correspondence and even statements in Parliament by the Prime Minister is almost invariably referred to as “Commander Crabb”.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1956/may/14/the-case-of-commander-crabb|title= THE CASE OF COMMANDER CRABB (Hansard, 14 May 1956)}}</ref>

- [[Ewen Montagu|Acting Temporary Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu RNVR]], who is routinely referred to as "Commander Montagu" in historical and contemporary records, and in interviews by his colleagues on [[Operation Mincemeat]]. <ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thetimes.com/article/jean-leslie-qx0k0hrrm85|title= Jean Leslie Obituary, The Times}} Note how in her interviews she always refers to Montagu as "Commander Montagu"</ref>