Royal Navy Uniform Illustrations 1825

[Father V]

Back in February 2024 I had despaired of ever finding the first set of official illustrations for British Naval Uniforms, that of 1825. I’d written to Greenwich and their sole copy had disappeared. By pure chance they had two of the illustrations in a separate art file and those were digitized (swords & caps/hats), but that was it. Unbeknownst to me, a nautical museum in Hamburg digitized their copy which was subsequently posted to Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/uniformsofficersroyalnavy1825/page/n9/mode/2up . I just happened to do an internet search today and discovered it. Here are the illustrations, rotated in most cases, mostly so the coats are properly oriented. I’ll use more than one post to get them all out.

Note there’s a slight difference in the Royal Museum’s 2 illustrations. The headgear is all oriented the same direction https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-128436 and the Master’s sword has the proper darker grip https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-128437?_gl=1*103jv3o*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTU3OTQ0OTg1MS4xNzUzOTQ0MTk3*_ga_7JJ3J5DBF6*czE3NTM5NDQxOTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTM5NDQxOTYkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_4MH5VEZTEK*czE3NTM5NDQxOTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTM5NDQxOTYkajYwJGwwJGgw