1890's Navy Whites!

[FTrooper]

My friend Richard Bloomquist is offering reproduction Navy uniforms for Span Am and WW1.  He has just finished a nice st of whites for a friend.  Cost (less shipping) was $150.

Told him I'd pass along the info:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.155417147924762.33807.100003694348653&type=1
bowser4141988@yahoo.com

Chris Fischer
F Troop Company

[Niederlander]

All right gentlemen!  We need some sailors to go along with the Marines on landing parties!

[pony express]

That's a good price for the uniform, but the Lee-Navy rifle and it's gear are waaaayyy out of my reach.

Maybe go a bit earlier, I could MAYBY scrape together enough to get a rolling block Remington and a 1851 Colt's navy conversion.

[S. Quentin Quale, Esq.]

I found this some time back.  It might be an answer:

http://www.nortonfirearms.com/archives/1895-navy-lee-update-february-26-2012/

I don't know anything about these folks.  I've read some good comments on the, however.

Just remember that a Naval Officer in command of troops ashore wears leggins.  And if he's in whites he wears black shoes.  The movie "The Sand Pebbles" got this one wrong!   

SQQ

[FTrooper]

A repro 1895 Lee!  What will we see next???  I have a bad feeling about the price though...lol! Still gonna be a bit pricy for a toy me thinks.

Chris Fischer
F-Troop Company

[Pay Dirt Norvelle]

Instead of the Lee, geta 1897 Shotgun.  I have seen a couple of pictures of the Vera Cruz Incident where the sailor has a 1897 and bandoleer.

[Charles Isaac]

The Navy get's no love around here any more! I'm about ready to shoot as a Sailor-we need more of them!!! Well, I WAS in the "Naval Services" -close enough I suppose.

Speaking of Vera Cruz-

[Charles Isaac]

[Pay Dirt Norvelle]

Here is the picture Iwas taling about.  The one on the right has the shotgun.

[pony express]

Expansion era navy would of course be easier-I already have the '03 Springfield.

I also have considered going navy for some of the European rifles I have, most of their navy uniforms were similar, especially the whites. Just different caps and maybe the collar colors.

[Niederlander]

Isn't that shotgun a Spencer pump action?  Where do you suppose they dug THAT up?!!

[S. Quentin Quale, Esq.]

Isn't that shotgun a Spencer pump action?  Where do you suppose they dug THAT up?!!

Remember that the Navy never throws anything away.  We've even still got CONSTITUTION and ARIZONA!!!!   

I suspect that in the Arms Lockers of ships of that time you'd have found a number of interesting pieces, just as you'd find today.  The older the ship, the more "intersting" the contents of the Arms Locker.

The Good News is that means a modern re-enactor has a wide latitude in selecting weapons.

SQQ

[Pitspitr]

Isn't that shotgun a Spencer pump action?  Where do you suppose they dug THAT up?!!

My brothers gun safe? Of course he'd find a lot more Davenports in there than Spencers

[Pay Dirt Norvelle]

Isn't that shotgun a Spencer pump action?  Where do you suppose they dug THAT up?!!

I wasn't sure what type of shotgun that was, as it looked a bit strange for a 1897.

[Drydock]

Got to consider this.  An officer off the USS Monocacy during the Boxer Rebellion has all kinds of possibilitys.  (Gawd, but think of all the Naval Types you could do out of that action! The assault on the Taku forts involved some kind of presence of just about every significant naval force afloat at the time!)

[pony express]

Got to consider this.  An officer off the USS Monocacy during the Boxer Rebellion has all kinds of possibilitys.  (Gawd, but think of all the Naval Types you could do out of that action! The assault on the Taku forts involved some kind of presence of just about every significant naval force afloat at the time!)

That's one I once considered to go with my GEW88, till I discovered that most of the German navy still used Mauser71/84s up untill almost WWI. Haven't been able to latch onto one of those yet. Their summer whites are almost the same as the US ones, except the collar is white with light blue stripe, and I think light blue on the cuffs.

I'll go with III Seebattalions in Peking to go with my Gew-88.(But later, still haven't made much progress on my French Foreign Legion yet)