Monkey jacket

Chief engineer's Merchant Navy monkey jacket. Doeskin material as Royal Navy pattern but jacket has Merchant Navy pattern buttons and four Merchant Navy pattern stripes of gold lace on purple cloth. Three medal ribbons : BWM, Mercantile Marine (1914 - 1918) and 1939 - 1945 star.

Object Details

ID: UNI3777
Collection: Uniforms
Type: Monkey jacket
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Bliss Bros Limited
Date made: 1943
People: Merchant Navy; Snowden, H, Chief Engineerfl
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 720 mm x 590 mm