How to fix the tape on the peakless cap. Ribbons for peakless caps

From the history!

The custom of sailors of all countries to wear a ribbon on their caps originates from the fishermen and sailors of the Mediterranean Sea, who in the old days, setting sail on their fragile sailing boats, usually received from their mothers, wives or relatives ribbons with embroidered words of prayers, spells, heart reminders . The sailor tied his long hair with a gifted ribbon in the superstitious belief that invisible forces would protect him at sea. Sometimes an inscription was painted on the ribbon that determined the character of its owner: “do not touch me”, “bravest”, “sea tramp” and others. There is even a legend that once such a ribbon saved a young man who was blessed by his beloved for a long sea voyage, while other sailors of this ship died.

In the navies, there were no ribbons on sailor hats until 1806, when, during the siege of the Dutch fortress of Curaçao by the British, the sailors of Captain Brisbane tied ribbons on their hats with the inscription in gold: “undaunted” and rushed to the attack. In fairness, it must be said that the “undaunted” English very quickly retreated in fear of the Dutch guns, but the example was set, and the next day the sailors of all ships were tied ribbons with more or less defiant names. This custom of wearing ribbons subsequently spread widely to all the fleets of the world.

The ribbon on the cap justified itself, and practically. With its help, it was possible to save the cap in strong winds by tying the ends of the ribbon under the chin. A cap found on the water spoke of the death of a sailor from a ship whose name was on the ribbon.

The first ribbons in the Russian Navy appeared on oilcloth hats of sailors in 1857 and no later than 1872 on caps. Until that time, only slotted letters and numbers were placed on the bands of sailor's caps, which were painted over or lined with yellow cloth. The exact size, shape of the letters on the ribbons, as well as the ribbons themselves, were approved for the entire rank and file of the Russian fleet on August 19, 1874. In the Soviet Navy, the font on the Red Navy ribbons was approved in 1923.

A special ribbon on the caps of Soviet sailors is the ribbon of guards ships, approved together with the badge of the guards in 1943. The ribbon of guards ships has the color of the ribbon of the Order of Glory from alternating stripes of orange and black.

Some researchers suggest that in the Russian Navy the black and orange color of the St. George ribbon repeats the former dynastic colors of the Russian monarchy. This is fundamentally wrong. The old heraldic colors of the Russian monarchy are gold with black or yellow with black. On the approval of the black-orange stripes of the St. George ribbon, there is a definite indication of 1769, which says that the colors are purely “military”: orange is the color of the flame and black is the color of cannon and gunpowder smoke.

And our sailor's ribbons, like black birds fly ....

One of the attributes of the naval uniform, which came from the last century, is a sailor's ribbon on a peakless cap. In November 1872, by order of the Admiral General, the type of headgear for sailors was determined with a special ribbon with the crew number. The same order determined the length and width of the ribbons, the shape of the letters and anchors.

On August 19, 1874, a new form of black peakless cap with white woolen piping along the crown and edges was defined. On the ribbon, it was ordered to write the name of the ship, the formation or the number of the naval crew, in a specially defined font. The length of the ribbons is determined at 140 centimeters.

From July 8 (July 20), 1878, the sailors of the Guards crew, the 12th crew of the Baltic Fleet (here the first guards ship of Russia "Azov" was completed), all the crews of the Black Sea Fleet from 29 to 45 numbers ("for the defense of Sevastopol from September 1854 to 27 August 1855"), as well as the ships that were formed by the sailors of all these crews received the right to wear St. George's black and orange ribbons. The colors of the St. George ribbons were determined by the empress's order from 1769, as the colors of the guard "the orange color of the flame, and the black color of the powder smoke."

The sailors have always been proud of the ships on which the inscriptions on the ribbons served, as if symbolizing involvement in the naval brotherhood and in the most elite caste of the fleet, the seafarers.
After the October Revolution in 1921, there was some change in the naval uniform. The naval cap has undergone changes. The crown became smaller, the white edging (which was associated with monarchical attributes) disappeared, the length of the ribbons was shortened, and the wearing of St. George ribbons was canceled. The names of the ships began to disappear on the ribbons and the names of the fleets appeared. In 1923, a single cubic font for ribbon inscriptions was introduced, which exists to this day. However, on battleships, cruisers and destroyers, sailors proudly continued to bear the names of their ships.
During the Great Patriotic War, St. George's ribbons, which became known as Guards, received a new life. 16 submarines, 18 surface ships, 11 battalions and brigades of ships and submarines, 7 brigades, regiments, artillery battalions and air defense battalions, 22 aviation regiments, 2 aviation divisions, 8 brigades of marines.
After the Great Patriotic War, the names of the ships disappeared completely from the naval ribbons and they were replaced by the faceless "NORTH FLEET", "BLACK SEA FLEET", etc., or even simply "NAVY FLEET". Only the ribbons of cadets of naval schools have retained their specificity. "VVMU IM. FRUNZE", "VVMUS IM. POPOVA. "VMIU IM. DZERZHINSKY", etc. The first appearance of a large number of naval badges that determined the names of warships should probably be attributed to this time. In an effort to somehow stand out from the faceless mass of all sailors, on uniforms of sailors and jackets of officers, midshipmen and sailors, badges appeared with the image of a naval flag and the proud inscriptions "TERMORABLE", "FEORY", "AZOV", etc. The authorities struggled with these, as hazing badges were then called. The commandants of various garrisons plucked them from the chests of the arrested sailors, and political workers waged a secret struggle under the guise of maintaining the military secret of belonging to the ship. Nevertheless, the tradition appeared and lived.

The so-called "Demeb" ribbons appeared with the inscriptions of the ship in Slavic script and gold stripes at the ends according to the number of years served or combat services completed. Ribbons were ordered illegally, usually from funeral homes. The command set the tasks for the officers of the ships to seize these ribbons. Ribbons were withdrawn, thrown away, but the sailors continued to make them and put them on for dismissal to the reserve.
So the old tradition continued despite all the efforts of the command and, above all, political agencies, who saw in this tradition, first of all, the restoration of the traditions of tsarist times. And probably they were unaware that it was, first of all, a manifestation of patriotism, loyalty to their ship and the flag of their ship.

New times somewhat weakened the former attitude towards "hazing" ribbons, and the ship commanders themselves began to illegally manufacture sailor ribbons with the names of their ships. There were ribbons with the inscriptions "RESTLESS", "PETER THE GREAT", "MOSCOW", "RETEST", etc.
I have always been fascinated when, on Navy Day, adult 40-50-year-old men put sailor caps on their heads, symbolizing their involvement in the fleet, ships and seafarers and go to meet and celebrate with their former colleagues, this holiday has really become their own and remember the service on their ships and everyday life on distant ocean voyages. They were proud and proud of their ships, their service, and keep their caps with ribbons as a memory for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In 2001, the Baltic Naval Institute hosted an exhibition of sailor and cadet ribbons from the collection of Captain 1st Rank Mekelit S.V. According to him, he began to collect ribbons of the Navy ships in the early 90s, when he met a cadet of the Kirov Caspian Naval School in the city. With bitterness, the officer thought that this school had disappeared, the schools named after Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, the Sevastopol Naval Engineering School, the Kiev Naval Political School and a number of others had disappeared. Traditions, ribbons, signs are gone. The desire to preserve and leave something for posterity arose in his soul and he began to collect badges and sailor's ribbons. Today there are already more than 100 ribbons in the collection, from different times, ships, fleets and even countries. Established and non-standard, new and old, beautiful and not very.
At the exhibition, the ribbons of almost all naval educational institutions, all fleets and some ships of various times were presented to the visitors for review. Against the background of other beautiful exhibits, the most significant and valuable exhibits stand out - this is the 1917 sailor's ribbon of the Novik-class destroyer "CAPTAIN 1st RANK MIKLUKHO-MACLAY" and the guards' ribbon of the cruiser "RED CAUCASUS", the ribbon of the famous cruiser "AURORA".
There is a ribbon in the collection of the patrol ship of the Ukrainian Navy "HETMAN SAGAYDACHNY", ribbons of the military fleets of Poland, Germany, Sweden. There are non-standard ribbons of such ships as "RESTLESS", "PERSISTENT", "PETER THE GREAT" and some others. The exhibition presents ribbons of all fleets and different times, of all naval schools, simple and guards. The exhibition is very interesting from the point of view of naval history, naval traditions and is very informative.
Sailor ribbons are primarily a tradition of the navy. Today they remind of those ships and people who fought and many died for the freedom and independence of our Motherland. This means that they have the right to exist and it is probably time to revive the glorious tradition of the Russian Navy and introduce nominal ribbons of ships and submarines so that everyone who served on them can be proud of their belonging to the glorious and eagle tribe of sailors, as he once wrote about it. then the glorious writer-marine painter Leonid Sobolev.

From the history!

The custom of sailors of all countries to wear a ribbon on their caps originates from the fishermen and sailors of the Mediterranean Sea, who in the old days, setting sail on their fragile sailing boats, usually received from their mothers, wives or relatives ribbons with embroidered words of prayers, spells, heart reminders . The sailor tied his long hair with a gifted ribbon in the superstitious belief that invisible forces would protect him at sea. Sometimes an inscription was painted on the ribbon that determined the character of its owner: “do not touch me”, “bravest”, “sea tramp” and others. There is even a legend that once such a ribbon saved a young man who was blessed by his beloved for a long sea voyage, while other sailors of this ship died.

In the navies, there were no ribbons on sailor hats until 1806, when, during the siege of the Dutch fortress of Curaçao by the British, the sailors of Captain Brisbane tied ribbons on their hats with the inscription in gold: “undaunted” and rushed to the attack. In fairness, it must be said that the “undaunted” English very quickly retreated in fear of the Dutch guns, but the example was set, and the next day the sailors of all ships were tied ribbons with more or less defiant names. This custom of wearing ribbons subsequently spread widely to all the fleets of the world.

The ribbon on the cap justified itself, and practically. With its help, it was possible to save the cap in strong winds by tying the ends of the ribbon under the chin. A cap found on the water spoke of the death of a sailor from a ship whose name was on the ribbon.

The first ribbons in the Russian Navy appeared on oilcloth hats of sailors in 1857 and no later than 1872 on caps. Until that time, only slotted letters and numbers were placed on the bands of sailor's caps, which were painted over or lined with yellow cloth. The exact size, shape of the letters on the ribbons, as well as the ribbons themselves, were approved for the entire rank and file of the Russian fleet on August 19, 1874. In the Soviet Navy, the font on the Red Navy ribbons was approved in 1923.

A special ribbon on the caps of Soviet sailors is the ribbon of guards ships, approved together with the badge of the guards in 1943. The ribbon of guards ships has the color of the ribbon of the Order of Glory from alternating stripes of orange and black.

Some researchers suggest that in the Russian Navy the black and orange color of the St. George ribbon repeats the former dynastic colors of the Russian monarchy. This is fundamentally wrong. The old heraldic colors of the Russian monarchy are gold with black or yellow with black. On the approval of the black-orange stripes of the St. George ribbon, there is a definite indication of 1769, which says that the colors are purely “military”: orange is the color of the flame and black is the color of cannon and gunpowder smoke.

And our sailor's ribbons, like black birds fly ....

One of the attributes of the naval uniform, which came from the last century, is a sailor's ribbon on a peakless cap. In November 1872, by order of the Admiral General, the type of headgear for sailors was determined with a special ribbon with the crew number. The same order determined the length and width of the ribbons, the shape of the letters and anchors.

On August 19, 1874, a new form of black peakless cap with white woolen piping along the crown and edges was defined. On the ribbon, it was ordered to write the name of the ship, the formation or the number of the naval crew, in a specially defined font. The length of the ribbons is determined at 140 centimeters.

From July 8 (July 20), 1878, the sailors of the Guards crew, the 12th crew of the Baltic Fleet (here the first guards ship of Russia "Azov" was completed), all the crews of the Black Sea Fleet from 29 to 45 numbers ("for the defense of Sevastopol from September 1854 to 27 August 1855"), as well as the ships that were formed by the sailors of all these crews received the right to wear St. George's black and orange ribbons. The colors of the St. George ribbons were determined by the empress's order from 1769, as the colors of the guard "the orange color of the flame, and the black color of the powder smoke."

The sailors have always been proud of the ships on which the inscriptions on the ribbons served, as if symbolizing involvement in the naval brotherhood and in the most elite caste of the fleet, the seafarers.
After the October Revolution in 1921, there was some change in the naval uniform. The naval cap has undergone changes. The crown became smaller, the white edging (which was associated with monarchical attributes) disappeared, the length of the ribbons was shortened, and the wearing of St. George ribbons was canceled. The names of the ships began to disappear on the ribbons and the names of the fleets appeared. In 1923, a single cubic font for ribbon inscriptions was introduced, which exists to this day. However, on battleships, cruisers and destroyers, sailors proudly continued to bear the names of their ships.
During the Great Patriotic War, St. George's ribbons, which became known as Guards, received a new life. 16 submarines, 18 surface ships, 11 battalions and brigades of ships and submarines, 7 brigades, regiments, artillery battalions and air defense battalions, 22 aviation regiments, 2 aviation divisions, 8 brigades of marines.
After the Great Patriotic War, the names of the ships disappeared completely from the naval ribbons and they were replaced by the faceless "NORTH FLEET", "BLACK SEA FLEET", etc., or even simply "NAVY FLEET". Only the ribbons of cadets of naval schools have retained their specificity. "VVMU IM. FRUNZE", "VVMUS IM. POPOVA. "VMIU IM. DZERZHINSKY", etc. The first appearance of a large number of naval badges that determined the names of warships should probably be attributed to this time. In an effort to somehow stand out from the faceless mass of all sailors, on uniforms of sailors and jackets of officers, midshipmen and sailors, badges appeared with the image of a naval flag and the proud inscriptions "TERMORABLE", "FEORY", "AZOV", etc. The authorities struggled with these, as hazing badges were then called. The commandants of various garrisons plucked them from the chests of the arrested sailors, and political workers waged a secret struggle under the guise of maintaining the military secret of belonging to the ship. Nevertheless, the tradition appeared and lived.

The so-called "Demeb" ribbons appeared with the inscriptions of the ship in Slavic script and gold stripes at the ends according to the number of years served or combat services completed. Ribbons were ordered illegally, usually from funeral homes. The command set the tasks for the officers of the ships to seize these ribbons. Ribbons were withdrawn, thrown away, but the sailors continued to make them and put them on for dismissal to the reserve.
So the old tradition continued despite all the efforts of the command and, above all, political agencies, who saw in this tradition, first of all, the restoration of the traditions of tsarist times. And probably they were unaware that it was, first of all, a manifestation of patriotism, loyalty to their ship and the flag of their ship.

New times somewhat weakened the former attitude towards "hazing" ribbons, and the ship commanders themselves began to illegally manufacture sailor ribbons with the names of their ships. There were ribbons with the inscriptions "RESTLESS", "PETER THE GREAT", "MOSCOW", "RETEST", etc.
I have always been fascinated when, on Navy Day, adult 40-50-year-old men put sailor caps on their heads, symbolizing their involvement in the fleet, ships and seafarers and go to meet and celebrate with their former colleagues, this holiday has really become their own and remember the service on their ships and everyday life on distant ocean voyages. They were proud and proud of their ships, their service, and keep their caps with ribbons as a memory for their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In 2001, the Baltic Naval Institute hosted an exhibition of sailor and cadet ribbons from the collection of Captain 1st Rank Mekelit S.V. According to him, he began to collect ribbons of the Navy ships in the early 90s, when he met a cadet of the Kirov Caspian Naval School in the city. With bitterness, the officer thought that this school had disappeared, the schools named after Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov, the Sevastopol Naval Engineering School, the Kiev Naval Political School and a number of others had disappeared. Traditions, ribbons, signs are gone. The desire to preserve and leave something for posterity arose in his soul and he began to collect badges and sailor's ribbons. Today there are already more than 100 ribbons in the collection, from different times, ships, fleets and even countries. Established and non-standard, new and old, beautiful and not very.
At the exhibition, the ribbons of almost all naval educational institutions, all fleets and some ships of various times were presented to the visitors for review. Against the background of other beautiful exhibits, the most significant and valuable exhibits stand out - this is the 1917 sailor's ribbon of the Novik-class destroyer "CAPTAIN 1st RANK MIKLUKHO-MACLAY" and the guards' ribbon of the cruiser "RED CAUCASUS", the ribbon of the famous cruiser "AURORA".
There is a ribbon in the collection of the patrol ship of the Ukrainian Navy "HETMAN SAGAYDACHNY", ribbons of the military fleets of Poland, Germany, Sweden. There are non-standard ribbons of such ships as "RESTLESS", "PERSISTENT", "PETER THE GREAT" and some others. The exhibition presents ribbons of all fleets and different times, of all naval schools, simple and guards. The exhibition is very interesting from the point of view of naval history, naval traditions and is very informative.
Sailor ribbons are primarily a tradition of the navy. Today they remind of those ships and people who fought and many died for the freedom and independence of our Motherland. This means that they have the right to exist and it is probably time to revive the glorious tradition of the Russian Navy and introduce nominal ribbons of ships and submarines so that everyone who served on them can be proud of their belonging to the glorious and eagle tribe of sailors, as he once wrote about it. then the glorious writer-marine painter Leonid Sobolev.

The first ribbons in the Russian Navy appeared on oilcloth hats of sailors in 1857 and no later than 1872 on caps. Until that time, only slotted letters and numbers were placed on the bands of sailor's caps, which were painted over or lined with yellow cloth. In the 70s of the XIX century. in the Russian Navy, a black peakless cap with a ribbon was introduced, on which the names of the naval crew and ship were inscribed. The exact size, shape of the letters on the ribbons, as well as the ribbons themselves, were approved for the entire rank and file of the Russian fleet on August 19, 1874. In the Soviet Navy, the font on the Red Navy ribbons was approved in 1923.

A special ribbon on the peakless caps of Soviet sailors is the ribbon of guards ships, approved together with the guards badge in 1943. The ribbon of guards ships has the color of the ribbon of the Order of Glory from alternating stripes of orange and black, which corresponds to the colors of the St. George ribbon (there is an indication of 1769, which says that the colors are given: orange is the color of the flame and black is the color of the powder smoke).

In addition, the ribbon served to hold the caps on the sailors' heads in windy weather - the ends of the ribbon were tied around the neck (or the ribbons were clamped with teeth). The length of the tape was longer than that of modern peakless caps and was about 160 cm.