Dockyard officer's baton.

Dockyard officer's baton. © National Maritime Museum, London

Repro ID: C7477

Description: Mutinous disturbances and rioting were not confined to Royal Naval or merchant ships. Sometimes they occured in naval dockyards like Woolwich and Deptford in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in the 1790s and 1800s. By the 1860s these dockyards had their own police, armed with batons or truncheons.

Creator: Unknown

Date: 1868

Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London