"Colour Schemes for RN Long Boats" Topic

I have just purchased the excellent Perrys 'flat boat' with a load of Lobsters to go in it. This will be my first RN Napoleonic model so I am keen to get the colours right. The uniforms are no problem, but what of the scheme for the boat itself including the oars? Can anyone suggest a source of information on this or a colour scheme that would have been relatively standard? (I know individual captains had some leeway.)

Thanks.

Believe these lolly boats were white/off white with red trim where the ores go etc, I painted the back rudder part black on the Redoubt version for customer, also a nice bit of kit too.

The Royal Navy did not allow 'ores on its ships……

Well not officially anyway…

If they hadn't tuned a blind eye,we wouldn't have "son of a gun" as an epithet.

Captains had a lot of leeway in the period, so you can do mostly what you want.

Generally the boat would be a white of some value (from eye-blinding for a Port Admiral's barge, to well-weathered, for that ship that just got back from Tahiti.)

Trim would be up to the captain. Blue, red, green… The oars might be painted, or just varnished wood.

The crew might be uniformed (at the captain's expense), or dressed in their own clothes. The lobsterbacks *are* uniformed, of course.

I based my model's colour-scheme on this excellent diorama in the Portsmouth naval museum.

link

Lots of orcs though.

love it………orcs………nice one

Thanks for the contributions ….. I think.