Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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h a military clothing foradmirals, captains, commanders, and lieutenants; andjudging it also necessary that persons acting as midshipmenshould likewise have a uniform clothing, in order to theircarrying the appearance which is necessary to distinguishtheir class, to be in the rank of gentlemen, and give thembetter credit and figure in executing the commands of theirsuperior officers, it was ordered that no commissioned officeror midshipman was from that time to presume to wear anyother uniform than that which properly belonged to his rank.Patterns of the garments thus prescribed were lodged at theNavy Office and at the several dockyards for inspection,^ but noregulations were issued describing the exact form of the dress,and no patterns were sent abroad. It was some little time,therefore, before uniformity became general. The uniform, 1 Some are still to be seen at the Royal United ServiceInstitution. SEAMANS DRESS, A PERIOD OF PEACE Circa A.D. 1828 to 1833 Some of Marryats characters
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LJi THE SEAMANS DRESS 351 also, was restricted to commissioned officers and midshipmen,and it was not for nearly forty years that the warrant officers,which rank included masters, surgeons, pursers, gunners,boatswains, and carpenters, received a uniform dress. Norwas any uniform prescribed for the seamen, but from thistime onwards blue and white were the colours more frequentlyaffected by everybody in the sea service. In the portraits of the officers of the middle of theeighteenth century the very gorgeous and elaborate full-dress uniform of 1748 is shown, and it seems likely that theofficers grumbled at the additional expense, for in less thantwenty years this full dress was ordered to be discontinued, andwhat was known as the frock uniform clothing became thecustomary dress. A little later this was made full dress, an undress * uniform being at the same time ordered. Facingp. 344 the undress which became full dress is shown in thecentre sketch for a rear-admiral, and in the upper ri

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