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Cook
No.4.; Hand-coloured. Depicts clothing, outerwear: dress, cook's [Royal navy]
Ship's cooks were usually disabled seamen but were ranked as warrant officers. They were not appointed for their culinary skills, but produced the seaman's standard diet of boiled beef or pork and the ubiquitous ship's biscuit. This cook is wearing the typical cook's dress of the Royal Navy. For the preparatory drawing see PAF5940.
Ship's cooks were usually disabled seamen but were ranked as warrant officers. They were not appointed for their culinary skills, but produced the seaman's standard diet of boiled beef or pork and the ubiquitous ship's biscuit. This cook is wearing the typical cook's dress of the Royal Navy. For the preparatory drawing see PAF5940.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF4969 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Ackermann, Rudolph; Merke, Henri Rowlandson, Thomas |
| Date made: | 15 Feb 1799 |
| Exhibition: | Nelson, Navy, Nation |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Mount: 266 mm x 210 mm |