Ebony tipstaff with a shaped handle and gold printed with a foul anchor, royal monogram and date 'VR', '1868' in a ribband. A gilt brass royal crown on the end. Associated with Chatham Dockyard.

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.