Master's black wool peaked cap of Blue Star Line with white plastic cover. Black wool cap badge bearing a gold swallowtail flag of applied ribbed silk fabric embroidered with a blue star in silk thread. A circle of applied coiled gold metal encloses the star. Coiled metal also outlines the flag. The flag is surrounded by laurel leaves of gold purl with stems of applied coiled gold metal.
The cap’s visor is made of card faced with black wool (blue/green leather on the under side) with gold embroidered oak leaves to indicate rank and black leather binding on the edge of the visor. The black plastic strap across the visor is fixed with a button to either side of the cap.
On the interior of the cap there is a brown leather hat band and blue silk lining with the maker’s details stamped in white ‘MILLER RAYNER & HAYSOM, LONDON’.
Cap is from the uniform of Captain (Master) D.R. Macfarlane.