Hello every one ,hope your all keeping well . I want to ask about military in particular if the royal navy used any pressure lamps. I know the army used vapalux and later used bialaddin and the air ministry RAF used Tilley lamps but I have no knowledge about any royal navy lamps . Thanks marten
@Madras Good question. On board ship the electricity ‘on tap’ would make a pressure lamp superfluous and with fire of particular concern on a ship, undesirable. Land establishments? I guess the Tilleys and Vapaluxes would have been used. John
Hi John ,it was more land based I was thinking about, after all any fire on ship is not a good thing . Do you think they would of had their own colour? Going out on a limb and would think it would be a royal blue. In hind sight I should have asked grandad about his navy time but then again I wasn't collecting lamps back then . Marten
Hi Marten. I don’t know and defer to someone reading this who might. That said, I don’t recall ever seeing a ‘navy blue’ or RN-issue lamp in CPL’s extensive Gallery. Contributor Steve Williams (RIP) was a Royal Navy PO and wrote in a thread in which people named their first pressure lamp,
Thanks for the extra info John . A 315 in navy blue sounds nice ,would make a pleasant change from olive drab or silver . I have also asked the same question in a FB navy group but still waiting for replies ,to be honest I thought those chaps would have the answer straight away I suppose we have to allow for various working times . Marten
Good point Wim. ’Hardware’ (ships etc.) grey, uniforms blue, so yes, wishful thinking from a lamp aesthetic perspective! True, the aesthetics don’t usually influence military colour schrme choices!
Navy blue is indeed a popular colour in general but I don't think I've never seen any shade of blue being used for military lanterns. That's to say, any that I could think of, be it on those ever deployed in the infantry or the navy. As far as I know, maritime forces starting from the mid and late 20th century onwards seldom, if ever, use navy blue on anything. Navy blue had been used during the 17th, 18th and early 20th centuries, at least in the uniforms.
Just to throw a spanner in the works .... beautiful lantern sold in a shot.... from WW2 Germany Navy.. kriegsmarine... PRINZ EUGEN ... so I guess they must have had them.. we must have had them .. WW2 German Navy Kriegsmarine – SHIPBOARD LAMP / LANTERN – PRINZ EUGEN – RARE! – Axis Militaria
