Sailor cap

The plate cap, outside the Bundeswehr also called ribbons hat, is a flat, round hat.

Bundeswehr

The plate cap is a part of the uniform of an enlisted rank of the Navy. It consists of a hat rack, a hat with regard Korkarde and a hat band. In the early years of the Bundeswehr ( until the 1970s ) soldiers were equipped with white and with blue cap covers, today only with white. The cap tally is in gold letters the name of the boat, ship or unit to which it belongs, the soldier. If not identified, was formerly a cap tally German Navy, today confiscated German Navy.

History

Since 1884, the plate cap is provided with a cockade and white since 1886. Another component is the dark hat band whose ends are dovetailed and suspended on the back of the head. The black silk ribbons are presumed to remember that in the past centuries and team sergeant wore tarred, waxed or oiled braids and wrapped with a black, tarred tape. Other rumors suggest that the two bands represent crape for Lord Nelson.

The berets were introduced for the first time in the Russian Navy in 1811. The German forerunner of today supported plate cap was announced with the Most Uniform rules on a uniform change and rank approximation in Prussia on 27 April 1849 as part of the first official uniform by the War Department in the military weekly paper No.33. An addition in remission certain that the low sailor is to be provided with a black silk ribbon, on which the name of the ship or simply Royal Navy is printed. 1873 specified that, to distinguish the parts of the Navy cap tally is the one part of the uniform of the teams, has from which emerge the distinctive character of the individual Marine Parts. While the cap volume up to paint and lettering still exists today, went through the plate cap, numerous changes.