Naval Brittish Officer

[oderlesseye]

I have been doing the Piracy side of this hobby fer a while now and have decided I wanna play both sides of the fence sort of speak and find reenactment clothing to be a British Naval Officer during GAOP say just before Woods Rodgers was commissioned to go after pirates.. So I am looking for some pictorial sources and some links to purchase this type of clothing..

I did find one cool link though..

http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/p...c-uniforms.html

[King's Pyrate]

I have been doing the Piracy side of this hobby fer a while now and have decided I wanna play both sides of the fence sort of speak and find reenactment clothing to be a British Naval Officer during GAOP say just before Woods Rodgers was commissioned to go after pirates.. So I am looking for some pictorial sources and some links to purchase this type of clothing..

I did find one cool link though..

http://www.kipar.org/piratical-resources/p...c-uniforms.html

Those are really nice looking uniforms........mine is more from the Master and Commander era......but the wool is much too hot for Florida summers (and the 30-40 day winters we get) It was made by a local civil war seamstress.

That is why I started with pirates garb...then fell to the Dark Side...lol

Joe

[portagee]

You will find that in the GAOP there was no uniform as most would think today. The English Capt. did not begin to have a conformity of dress until the 1740's

In "the prize of all the oceans" it has Anson complaining of not being recognized as the Capt. and later "...Anson improvised a navel uniform for his men."

You will find many a painting here of Capt.'s and Admrl.'s

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/

[oderlesseye]

It appeares the portagee is correct because the first Royal Naval uniform pattern appeared in 1748 .

according to this source.

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/i...tegory/uniforms

[Fox]

There is some evidence of some lieutenants and masters on the Mediterranean station getting hold of red coats from marines at Gibraltar and adding black piping or braiding to create a kind of pseudo-uniform circa 1720. Other than that the closest you're going to get to a GAoP RN uniform is the Admiralty Slop Contract stuff which has been discussed at great length here in the past.