Why is the Navy on land?

[Christopher Foulbones]

Originally Posted by Maxximvs

No - in the period there was no distinction between land and sea forces (as today many countries call the 'armed forces' with no distinction between land/sea/air) - as the Ocean for the time was Dominated by the British Navy - their 'armed forces' were Navy troops.

Actually the each British Naval man-o-war carried at least 50-150 Royal Marines. The Royal Marines wore the red jackets you see. The British navy at the time wore no uniform apart from the Officers. They did however go on land to fight in the case of an invasion of an enemy fort on an island, etc.

Depending on where the ship set sail from you would either have Royal Marines who had the red uniform or the Royal Artillery Corps who wore the Blue uniforms and places like Plymouth had Royal Artillery Corps, where as for example Portsmouth had Royal Marines.

An interesting piece of knowledge too is that they used to place the Royal Marines between the Officers and the crew in case of Mutiny. The Royal Marines were too loyal and were also kept away from the crew in Meal times and other times to plan a mutiny in coalition with each other.

So the answer to your question is that they are NOT Navy Soldiers as such, but Royal Marines. Its just that Disney didn't go to much effort in researching the correct terms for these such things.

As a matter of fact the Royal Navy today are the only branch of the British Military that do not have a ground force as they didn't back then either. We now have the Royal Marine Commandos instead of Royal Marines.


Regards,
Chris