[Alt History] Sailor on land, P.R. Navy 1916

A worthy Navy

     After the end of the revolution that brought independence the island of Puerto Rico would face another threat, pirates and smugglers became a problem and while foreign nations would sometimes sweep them and in the process get paid for it the local government decided it was time to start building up a navy. Beginning in the late 1800s the first navy ships where put to sea, these agile and swift boats where meant to quickly tackle the growing issue  and as such this way of thinking continued on, why spend money on larger ships when small agile ones where more than fine with maintaining the seas around the island safe.  Around 1910 however the navy acquired a frigate, at the time the most modern ship in it's arsenal and had plans to acquire at least one more however those plans never came into fruition and by 1916 the Puerto Rican navy was basically outdated and incapable of going against the US ships, nevertheless two attempts were made to break the San Juan blockade  and continued attempts to carry out sabotage missions against supply ships had mixed results.
By the end of 1916 however most of the navy had been transferred to land duty with only a small number of sailors continuing to carry out the close to suicidal missions of sabotage, the frigate on the other hand had suffered heavy damage and it was moored in Arecibo were most of it's guns where then taken out, the ship remained there until 1920 when it was once again made fit for service. As for the sailors some of them ended up in the trenches while others either manned artillery pieces or were part of the signal corps. Sailors uniforms where made of a white cotton and were supplied with blue and white stripped shirts underneath, they made use of the standard service cap in white and blue, weapons wise they were armed with the standard mauser but also made of the c96 broomhandle and the m19 sabre, other than the uniform there was not that much of a difference between the branches.