The Royal Navy . r which, no doubt, the seamen of the pigtail period and many of their successors were wont to assemble for jollification and carouse, expresses succinctly a time-honoured sentiment. The people of these favoured Isles warrantably associate True Blue, the stainless colour, with the gallant fellows, who, in the wooden bulwarks of the past, so staunchly upheld the honour of the flag, no less than with their descendants who, in steel-clad mastodons, or submarine mysteries—crammed with machinery and death-dealing engines—must be, unless the navigation of the air is mastered, their s
The Royal Navy . r which, no doubt, the seamen of the pigtail period and many of their successors were wont to assemble for jollification and carouse, expresses succinctly a time-honoured sentiment. The people of these favoured Isles warrantably associate True Blue, the stainless colour, with the gallant fellows, who, in the wooden bulwarks of the past, so staunchly upheld the honour of the flag, no less than with their descendants who, in steel-clad mastodons, or submarine mysteries—crammed with machinery and death-dealing engines—must be, unless the navigation of the air is mastered, their sole protectors from the violating heel of the invader. The well-known term British Bluejacket has, indeed, become a synonym for our brave seamen of the Royal Navy, just as that other phrase, The Thin Red Line, recalls their noble brethren of the Land Service battling in defence of our hearths and homes 338 SEAMANS DRESS, EARLY BRITISH TO TUDOR TIMES Circa 600 to 1600From before the Conquest to the Armada. _,.t THE SEAMANS DRESS 339 upon a foreign strand. But there is, too, in these oft-quotedwords, a significant indication of that very reasonable desirewhich all must experience when reading of great deeds orbold exploits, to call up to the minds eye the scene, and topicture for oneself the appearance of the actors. It is notsufficient for us merely to know what they did or why theydid it; we must also be told what the heroes looked like, andin what manner of attire they played their several is my purpose, then, in these pages to attempt to gratifythis natural desire, and to add to the preceding chapters,—wherein Mr H. L. Swinburne has so graphically describedthe fighting history of the Royal Navy, and Mr has deftly illustrated the wooden walls ** inwhich its successes have been achieved,—some brief notesconcerning the attire of the men who served in the shipsand fought the guns, to the building up and maintenance ofthis great Empire. This I cou
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