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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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e—on their buttons and collars. Similarly, thepaymaster branch wore the seal of the Victualling Office.And when engineers were introduced, their button was distin-guished by a copy of the old beam engine surmounted by acrown. Distinctions in rank, first marked by the amount ofembroidery, were shown after 1774 by the arrangement of thebuttons: captains over a certain standing wearing them bythrees, captains of less seniority by twos, while the mastersand commanders, a rank then corresponding to the com-manders of a later date, wore their buttons regularly. In1783 marks of distinction on the white cuffs were introduced,admirals having three rows of embroidery, vice-admirals two,and rear-admirals one; but the grade was also shown in theundress by the arrangement of the buttons and buttonholes.When the warrant officers were given a uniform, the coat wasentirely of blue, with blue lapells and blue cuffs, and a fall- SEAMANS DRESS, IN THE REIGN OF THE SAILOR KING 0 Circa a.d. 1833 to 1843
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THE SEAMANS DRESS 353 down collar, the coats to be lined, but not edged, with white.The midshipmans coat was always marked by a white turn-back to the stand-up collar, precisely what has been knownas the midshipmans patch ever since. White cloth waist-coats and breeches were prescribed with all these dresses, butthey were more commonly made of kerseymere or nankin, andwere buff rather than white.^ All officers wore three-corneredcocked hats, but in 1799 a distinction was made between flagofficers and others in the method of wearing the hat, theformer wearing it athwartships, while the latter wore it foreand aft. The difficulty of wearing a three-cornered hat foreand aft quickly brought about an alteration in its shape, andby 1805 the hats worn were almost exactly the same as thosewhich may be seen on the Lord Mayors coachman and foot-men. Generally, the changes brought about by the orders of1787 and 1805 are shown facing p. 346, the group on the leftbeing the earlier uniform, and that

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