RN Deck Crew colours ?

[Captain Canada]

Anybody know of a good link for info on this ? How about RN colours vs. USN colors ?

[philp]

CC,
Is this what you are asking about?

http://www.smallscale.de/contents/en-us/d288.html
then click on Allied Figures

[Mossie]

The uniforms have changed, but the colours haven't much over time, it's ususally blue uppers with navy blue trousers.

For current working dress there's a link on the RN site:
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3765

On board flight deck, yellow hi-viz gear is worn over the uniform:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/image_galleries/ark_royal_gallery.shtml?7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/image_galleries/ark_royal_gallery.shtml?9

There's a description on Wiki, with a pic of crew in anti-flash gear, usually used for weapons operators:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy_uniform

Firefighting gear, you may see firefighters on deck on standby in certain situations:
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/ConMediaFile.34765

[jcf]

Hey Cap,
here's a pic of an aircraft handler with a blue jersey and helmet:


Dunno 'bout the rest.

For those who are wondering about the USN coding here is a rundown:

On the Flight Deck the crew wear a variety of brightly colored shirts. Here is who they are and what they do:
Yellow Shirts: Flight Deck Officers and Plane Directors.
These are the only people on the flight deck authorized to move aircraft, or to give hand signals regarding taxiing the a/c, or moving it.
   
Blue Shirts: Flight deck crew, always work under the direction of a Yellow Shirt Director as part of a designated crew. Plane pushers/handlers; chock planes, push planes, scrub the decks, and do all the tough jobs on the flight and hangar decks.

Green Shirts: Catapult and Arresting Gear people. Operate, and maintain the Catapults and Arresting Gear. Squadron Aircraft Maintenance people also were green.    

Brown Shirts: Squadron personnel, in particular Plane Captains. (No ship's company wear brown shirts.)

Red Shirts: Aviation ordnance crews. Load and "arm" those weapons on the aircraft. Sometimes referred to as "BB Stackers", or "Ordies".    

Purple shirts: Aviation fuels people. Referred to as "Grapes". Gas aircraft. Operate & maintain carrier avgas/jet fuel/ av lube oil systems.

Checker shirts: Squadron maintenance Quality Control people. Responsible for final overall checks of a/c readiness before launch.

White shirts: Mail and people handlers for carrier on board delivery (COD).

White shirts with a Red Cross: Medical corpsmen assigned to flight deck during flight quarters. White shirts with a Red Cross are part of the crash crew.

Jon