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Description: | Heavily restored cocked hat presented to Admiral Sir Charles Napier (1786-1860) in 1855 while he was vice-admiral. Beaver felt bound with gold lace. On each end is a blue and gold tassel. The hat has a ribbed silk cockade and three loops of gold bullion, the central one twisted over a domed gilt brass button. The interior of the hat features a blue silk hat band embroidered with running stitch and chain stitch in a guilloche pattern with three anchors. The hat is lined with white silk and has the stamped inscription in the crown: ?Presented/TO/ADMIRAL SIR C.NAPIER,/BY THE /WORKPEOPLE/IN THE EMPLOY OF/MESSRS. CHRISTYS?,/BERMONDSEY STREET, SOUTHWARK/November 9, 1855.?
Napier joined the Royal Navy in 1799 and reached the rank of admiral in 1860 after a career of victories in the Napoleonic, Anglo-American, Syrian and Crimean Wars. For his capture of Acre during the Syrian campaign, he was awarded the KCB and received a diamond hilted sword and the order of the Medjidie from the Sultan. His status as public hero was cemented and he remained a popular naval officer until his death. In peacetime, Napier served as an MP and in naval retirement had a reputation as a radical and outspoken politician who championed both parliamentary and naval reform.
UNIFORM ACQ. INVESTIGATION - NAPIER
- NMM 1825/2/40 No mention of hat
NMM6 1386/1/36 - no mention of hat
caption: Cocked hat, Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843-79
caption: Cocked hat - inside detail, Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843-79
caption: Cocked hat - band detail, Royal Naval uniform: pattern 1843-79 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | cocked hats Guilloche Admiral Charles John Cockade Napier Tharp M J Bullion (uniforms) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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