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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pany, in whateverfashion seemed to them best, and the vagaries of some ofthe commanders were very strange, leading at times to odddifficulties. The captain of the Vernon, in 1840, orderedhis men on fitting out to wear red serge frocks; but whenthe ship had been in commission a short time it was founddifficult to replace the worn articles, and presently all theremaining red frbcks were appropriated to one watch, whilethe others wore blue, which were obtainable on board. As itwas the custom to station the men on the yards alternatelyby their watches, their chequered appearance when furlingsails can be imagined. In the Blazer, in 1845, the shipscompany wore blue-and-white striped guernseys, the origin,it has been assumed, of the term blazers. Similarly, thecommander of the Harlequin, in 1853, dressed his gigs crewas harlequins, and it was in ridicule of this fashion thatM. H. Barker, the novelist, made the commander of the SEAMANS DRESS, THE ERA OF STEAM AND STEEL Circa a.d. 1850 to igoo
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THE SEAMANS DRESS 357 Tulip dress his ships company in green with an imitation ofthe flower reversed for their caps. Probably The OldSailor did not know that in selecting green he was repeatinghistory, for in 1740 a contract was made for supplying theseamen with green baize frocks and trousers. Moreover, thepractice of the ships company or the boats crews wearing thecolours or badges of their captains was nearly as old as theNavy itself, and Anson dressed the men of his own barge ina costume resembling that of the Thames watermen—scarletjackets, blue silk vests, and silver badges on their arms. Mention has been made of the sets of sketches of uniformissued at various times during the nineteenth century.These, though not infrequently met with in the printsellersshops, are scarce, especially in a complete state, but theyhave been used by Mr Jellicoe for Plates facing pp. 350, 352.The first of these shows the costume worn by the charactersin Captain Marryats novels, and here may be see

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