RFA Fort Duquesne, United Kingdom

RFA FORT DUQUESNE, UNITED KINGDOM

Official blazon

English

Barry wavy of eight white and blue; a bezant charged with a fess couped chequy white and blu rising therefrom a castle of three towers gold.

Origin/meaning

A French Fort in Ohio. Captured by the British in 1759 and renamed Fort Pitt after the Secretary of State. The Badge show part of his Arms. The Badge was approved in 1965.

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

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