Merchant Navy uniform: pattern 1955

Second Officer's mess jacket, P&O. Standard pattern blue cloth with P&O pattern buttons and shoulder bands of rank (two gold stripes with royal blue cloth between). The cuffs bear the marks where RN (RNR) stripes of gold lace for a Lieutenant have been removed.

Object Details

ID: UNI1414
Collection: Uniforms
Type: Mess jacket
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Firmin & Sons Limited; Gieves & Hawkes Ltd
Date made: 1955
People: Daniel, Christopher St John Hume; Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 588 mm x 566 mm
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