Royal Navy uniforms

[Guido SambucettiParticipant @guidosambucetti90794]

Hello everyone! I´m considereing building a diorama to include a waterline model of HMS Beagle during one of her trips to South America in the 1830´s. Of course being a diorama it should include some crew, but how should they be dressed? Can someone suggest a source of information about Royal Navy uniforms for that period?

Many thanks!

[Guido SambucettiParticipant @guidosambucetti90794]

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Hi Guido. If you cant find it on Google, I would be surprised! It`s all out there somewhere.

I would suggest that the uniform would have been `relaxed` on a voyage such as this especially if you are choosing a warm-weather diorama, so a loose interpretation of whatever dress code presided at that period would be good enough?

Ashley

[Malcolm FraryParticipant @malcolmfrary95515]

A google for "royal navy uniform history" came up with this –

**LINK**

Which covers the period, and might well be accurate. According to the article, officers had a uniform to show that they were in the service of the crown for many years previous, ratings at the time had what they could, presumably from a late Georgian version of the Army & Navy store.

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