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HMS ORCADIA, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Orcadia, Royal Navy

Official blazon

Barry wavy of nine white and blue; on a torteau a demi-lion erased and ducaly crowned gold armed and langued blue holding in both paws an axe proper.

Origin/meaning

Ancinet Name for Orkney. From the Royal Arms of Norway, to whom the Islands once belonged. The badge was approved 1946.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admrialty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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