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A Cauldron for restoring lost Youth kept and tended by the Magician Medea. The Ram's Head refers to the time when Medea cut up and boiled a Ram's Head whereupon it was transofrmed into a lamb again. The | A Cauldron for restoring lost Youth kept and tended by the Magician Medea. The Ram's Head refers to the time when Medea cut up and boiled a Ram's Head whereupon it was transofrmed into a lamb again. The badge was approved on 31 July 1945. | ||
[[Literature]]: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopedia by T.P. Stopford. | [[Literature]]: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopedia by T.P. Stopford. | ||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Navy heraldry]] | [[Category:Navy heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1945]] | [[Category:Granted 1945]] | ||
Revision as of 07:58, 17 October 2023
HMS MAGICIENNE, ROYAL NAVY
| English | Blue; Medea's boiling cauldron embossed with a ram's head gold upon an open fire of logs inflamed proper. |
Origin/meaning
A Cauldron for restoring lost Youth kept and tended by the Magician Medea. The Ram's Head refers to the time when Medea cut up and boiled a Ram's Head whereupon it was transofrmed into a lamb again. The badge was approved on 31 July 1945.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopedia by T.P. Stopford.
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