Royal Logistic Corps Royal Logistic Corps Royal Artillery-Pattern Sword and Scabbard System
The RLC officer sword is Royal Artillery pattern with a three-bar hilt and specific RLC embossing on the blade. The Army sword schedule assigns the Royal Artillery pattern to officers of Royal Logistic Corps. The Royal Artillery-pattern blade is slightly curved, tapers gradually and is fullered on both sides from 1½ inches from the hilt to approximately 9 inches from the point.
Description
Specification
Gender
Male & Female
Design
The RLC officer sword is Royal Artillery pattern with a three-bar hilt and specific RLC embossing on the blade.
Classification
The Army sword schedule assigns the Royal Artillery pattern to officers of Royal Logistic Corps.
Construction
The Royal Artillery-pattern blade is slightly curved, tapers gradually and is fullered on both sides from 1½ inches from the hilt to approximately 9 inches from the point.
The guard is stamped mild steel in a three-bar pattern.
The grip is wood covered with fish skin, bound with silver wire and between 5 and 5¾ inches long.
Pattern: Pattern based on the 1822 Light Cavalry sword.
Blade: Slightly curved, spear-pointed carbon-steel blade.
Guard: Nickel-plated half-basket hilt with three fluted bars.
Grip: Black fish-skin grip bound with silver-plated copper wire.
Scabbard options: Leather or nickel-plated steel scabbard according to dress and corps fitting.
Ceremonial No. 1 and No. 3 Dress use a steel scabbard.
Non-ceremonial sword equipment uses a brown-leather scabbard.
Decoration
An embossed blade may carry the Royal Cypher and Crown or the regimental badge, together with the manufacturer's name and trade mark, but no other badge or device.
Measurement
The blade fullers begin 1½ inches from the hilt.
The blade fullers end approximately 9 inches from the point.
The grip is between 5 and 5¾ inches long.
The specified overall sword length is 3 feet 5¼ inches.
The specified blade length from shoulder to point is 2 feet 11 inches.
The specified sword weight is 2 pounds.
Source Precedence
A more-specific local scabbard specification controls this item, so the common Annex C scabbard construction and dimensions are not projected.
Dimension
Blade dimensions: 34 in long × 1 in wide at the hilt.
Source Evidence
The cited source passage supplies the sword specification for this article.
The cited RLC Full Dress specification directly identifies this article.
The cited source passage identifies Ceremonial Steel Sword Scabbard as an applicable scabbard article in this prescription.
Commercial Provenance
Goldings’ WordPress catalogue supplied “Leather Scabbard” as a supporting presentation for this reviewed source-first scabbard system.
Goldings’ WordPress catalogue supplied “Nickel Scabbard” as a supporting presentation for this reviewed source-first scabbard system.
Goldings’ WordPress catalogue supplied “The Royal Logistic Corps Sword” as a supporting presentation for this reviewed source-first sword system.
Specification
Royal Logistic Corps Royal Artillery-Pattern Sword and Scabbard System is the single customer-facing configured sword-and-scabbard product for the cited Officer cohorts; its concrete construction remains in source-backed child records.
Related uniforms
Completes
the uniforms
Orders of dress completed by this product for Royal Logistic Corps.
