Find me a pic - 1820's Navy Midshipman

Alan · Sep 6, 2006

Trying to find some good examples of (specificaly the uniform) worn by a Midshipman in the Napoleon 1820 era

Kinda like :-
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0311113/Ss/0311113/MC-389R.jpg

Tis the character i'll be playing in a new RPG starting this thurday so was after some examples to show the other people - characters age is around 18 if that helps too

Didnt get much time to find some today which means a mad rush tomorrow - and its gona be one hell of a busy day at work without adding this task <sulks>

Bahumat · Sep 6, 2006

Tears said:
Trying to find some good examples of (specificaly the uniform) worn by a Midshipman in the Napoleon 1820 era

Kinda like :-
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0311113/Ss/0311113/MC-389R.jpg

Tis the character i'll be playing in a new RPG starting this thurday so was after some examples to show the other people - characters age is around 18 if that helps too

Didnt get much time to find some today which means a mad rush tomorrow - and its gona be one hell of a busy day at work without adding this task <sulks>

You just wanna get felt up by Russel Crowe...

Alan · Sep 6, 2006

Bahumat said:
You just wanna get felt up by Russel Crowe...

Zzzzz such a narrow one track mind - do some research

Roalith · Sep 6, 2006

This page may help a bit:

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3772

Mey · Sep 6, 2006

Whats it called? The TT:RPG that is?

chretien · Sep 6, 2006

Well according to the National Maritime Museum, ratings had no official uniform until 1857, they were given cloth and had to have their own kit made from it however they liked. That's probably why you had a hard time finding a picture of a midsipmans uniform on the net - there wasn't one.

Mey · Sep 6, 2006

http://www.italianfront.com/French1805habitvesteWeb.jpg

Alan · Sep 6, 2006

chretien said:
Well according to the National Maritime Museum, ratings had no official uniform until 1857, they were given cloth and had to have their own kit made from it however they liked. That's probably why you had a hard time finding a picture of a midsipmans uniform on the net - there wasn't one.

Well it was pretty much at the discresion of the captain, and many tried to uphold some standards - I've also got a few books (urm well PDF's) about the battles from that period and nearly all of them have some form of uniform, but pictures are kinda limited. (mm thats actualy backed up by that link)

From what I've gathered it was typicaly cream trousers with a white shirt and waistcoat - then a dark blue penguin jacket (long at the back) with a single row of brass buttons (3 on the cuff) the collar had a simple white patch to signify the rank.

Its all really interesting stuff - well is to me

cant wait to RP this character.

Mey · Sep 6, 2006

Whats the Tabletop called!

Might have to give it ago myself

Alan · Sep 6, 2006

Mey said:
Whats the Tabletop called!

Might have to give it ago myself

Its a custom game

the world is based on the Amber books, the dice system based on The Riddle of Steel and an interesting purpose designed magic system

Right found one while looking at old oil paintings - hell this one even matches my description

but is a bit too young lol

http://website.lineone.net/~odonata3/copley.html

Mey · Sep 6, 2006

Tears is playing little boys!

Costum games are always a good laugh, i prefer d20 to d10 (iirc) mind.

Alan · Sep 6, 2006

Mey said:
Tears is playing little boys!

Costum games are always a good laugh, i prefer d20 to d10 (iirc) mind.

and around 18 is hardly a little boy :touch:

TBH the dice mean naff all to me, I just want to drop the crappy day-to-day life i have and be something else for 3 hours a week

and boy does this character have one hell of a deep background which gets thrown into turmoil at the start of the game.

edit: and the guy GM'ing it is the kind who can let a whole night go past without even touching your dice, just loads of interaction and NPC's and stuff - really quite excited about the possibilities tomorrow night.

Mey · Sep 7, 2006

Ah sound the guy who used Gm for us was like that, but eventually our group ended up being 15 people strong and playing a game like Pendragon it was pretty hardcore so dice rolling became a neccessity.

old.Tohtori · Sep 7, 2006

Tears said:
- really quite excited about the possibilities tomorrow night.

Willy in the bum? Willy in the mouth? Willy in the nose? Who knows!! But it's gonna be spanktastic!

Sparx · Sep 7, 2006

you got something on your shoe.....OO sailor

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Sparx said:
you got something on your shoe.....OO sailor

I like comments like that, just makes me realise how ignorant some people are

Sparx · Sep 7, 2006

wheres that nerve i wanna hit it again

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Sparx said:
wheres that nerve i wanna hit it again

Was reading a captains log from one vessel in the 1820's One crew member who was caught, lets just say "alone" with a younger member was (without any evidence) subjected to 56 lashes, and dismissed from the navy.

Sparx · Sep 7, 2006

56 is quite an exact number why not round it to 60? must have been a reason

Overdriven · Sep 7, 2006

Sparx said:
56 is quite an exact number why not round it to 60? must have been a reason

Days there usually.

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Its not good when your researching this, and get to the page about "kissing the gunners daughter" while your boss walks past <eek>

Gamah · Sep 7, 2006

Rather be ignorent then some werido who wants to dress up to play a bored game..

Quick lets play monopoly I'll dress up as the shoe!

Sparx · Sep 7, 2006

lol

can i be the hat?

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Gamah said:
Rather be ignorent then some werido who wants to dress up to play a bored game..

Quick lets play monopoly I'll dress up as the shoe!

Its not a board game
You dont dress up

:touch:

liloe · Sep 7, 2006

nothing better than some good old pen & paper RPG =) Sure computer is fun, but the possibilites on pen & paper games are truly amazing =)

Mey · Sep 7, 2006

Gamah said:
Rather be ignorent then some werido who wants to dress up to play a bored game..

Quick lets play monopoly I'll dress up as the shoe!

Rather be some weirdo that gets dressed up to play a board game than a knob-touch like you.

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Yay another thread descending to the pit of name calling

Lethul · Sep 7, 2006

liloe said:
nothing better than some good old pen & paper RPG =)

lol, right now you sounded like one of the most boring persons ever

Mey · Sep 7, 2006

Tears said:
Yay another thread descending to the pit of name calling

Sorry i just can't understand why people have to take the piss when we we're discussing/contributing stuff to the conversation. That and it annoys me when people with no actually concept of how you play said game try to take the piss.

On another note, my lot are starting a new COC campaign soon i think, should be a good laugh have no idea what i'm going to play yet.. But i'm sure i'll think of something.

Alan · Sep 7, 2006

Mey said:
Sorry i just can't understand why people have to take the piss when we we're discussing/contributing stuff to the conversation. That and it annoys me when people with no actually concept of how you play said game try to take the piss.

On another note, my lot are starting a new COC campaign soon i think, should be a good laugh have no idea what i'm going to play yet.. But i'm sure i'll think of something.

Taking the piss doesn't bother me as much as pointless name calling

Those people who just post comments about homosexuality within the navy just make me laugh as they clearly have no idea about their history (maybe they don't want to know - fine - but to me its fascinating to see how our race has evolved)

Equally I think i'd have to agree the majority of RP'ers have boring lives, i know I do - but when you open unleash the imagination these people have its phenomenal.

I know that all (bar one who's only 17) of our players earn close to 40k, so there either lucky or have the brains

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