Royal Navy 1827 Pattern Officer's Sword

The 1827 Pattern Royal Navy Officer's Sword

[levifontaine]

That’s one of the few antique sabres on my “must have” list.


Although I wouldn’t mind having them all.

[doratheexploder]

Love those shorter blades. My latest one, a 1845 french nco has been service sharpened, and makes that lovely swooshing sound like a toothless whistle.

[ramibairi]

Looking forward to see you reviewing the 1896 cavalry officer's sword :)

[IronDuke]

Always good to see Royal Navy equipment, hope you do more on the RN. The Royal Navy, of course, saw a lot of action ashore, as well as afloat, in naval brigades as you mention.

[grailknight]

Matt you never made a video about the 1864 patterns of cavalry swords.... i always wondered why they had the malta cross for example..

[buidseach]

One of my relations still has my 3rd great Uncle's Royal Navy sword of this type and he was a Surgeon, his has a folding guard and has the darker grey handle.

[davidnewman]

Hi Matt, my G-G-(not sure how many) grand father was a fleet surgeon in the Crimean War. I have a painting of him with Crimean War medals, and holding his 1827 sword. I also have the original medals and sword. A nice set, albeit the blade is covered with surface rust…. Love your channel! Cheers

[icfubar]

The depth and scope of knowledge on edged weapons being packed around inside M.E's head is astounding. Always an interesting talk on the example been shown. Kudos.

[Bonzulac]

This coat has epaulets on its epaulets.

[danieltaylor]

Flared Yelman sounds like it should be a figure skating routine. " What a fantastic landing on that Flared Yelman! Surely they'll get a 10 for that!"

[y-sin]

Hi Matt, I’d love to see a video of the top ten weapons in your collection and why they made the cut (pun intended).

[Riceball]

I find it interesting that the British military (the RN?) maintains a fixed regulation length for their swords. In the US Marine Corps, don't know about the other branches, there is no fixed length, our swords vary in blade length depending on the height of the Marine. All the regulations say is that the tip of the blade should be in line with the (top of the?) ear. This is so that when in formation all of the swords appear to be the same length no matter how tall or short the Marine carrying the sword is.

[dimitrizaitsew]

Amazing how you remember all the tiny details.

[zednotzee]

Ah ! A vid on a Royal Navy sword. Splendid !

[fred]

Your videos are very good, and very accurate. Thank you. Your collection must be magnificent.

[scottmacgregor]

That is a beautiful sword.
I'm just getting into sabre fencing myself. Lots of fun, but the flowing circular movements are still pretty awkward for me.
Love those sneaky sabre thrusts though.

[chrissutcliffe]

Would love to own one of those navy pipe back swords. Awesome video.

[slick_slicers]

MATT, A FEW CORRECTIONS - Mine (a Wilkinson) has white leather for the grip. The hinged clip is very important for drill, because, unless carrying colours, a sheathed naval sword is never slung, and always carried. When you move from standing to attention to start marching, the sword is smartly thrown by the hilt, and caught by the same hand by the upper brass fitting of the scabbard with the blade edge up and pointing forward. Also, never leave an RN sword in its scabbard standing on its drag as it will cause ripples in the leather which cannot be removed. I used mine as my service blade for parades in the late 80s to early 90s. It wasn’t a horrid pipe-back either, nor the current 1892 pattern either, but the 1846. The pattern today may still be the 1846, but it isn’t what you’d be offered from the armoury today. Most now are a very light version of the 1892 pattern, as per infantry blades. They are not nice, usually of pretty low quality. Something else you missed. The brass hilt is, or was when new, gold plated, as were the brass fittings of the scabbard.

[ncmarmstrong]

I've read that another reason for discontinuing the pipe-backed blade was that fact that the pipe-back prevented a blade slicing entirely through its target. I'm no expert on the subject, so I cannot comment on the veracity of this explanation. Some early 1827 swords had open half-basket guards, not filled in - like Army swords

In the early 20th century there were also swords specifically made for warrant officers that had a black fish-skin grip and no lion on the pommel. In all other respects they were the same as the sword for commissioned officers.

[Marcus_]

Matt, this was very informative and I love your passion.