HMS Magicienne, Royal Navy

HMS MAGICIENNE, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

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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