HMS Cawsand Bay, Royal Navy
HMS CAWSAND BAY, ROYAL NAVY
English | Per fess gold and blue; an anchor counterchanged with a circle coposed of in chief four roses red barbed and seeded proper and in base four bezants. |
Origin/meaning
On the Southern Cornish coasat West of Plymouth Breakwater. Scouted as a possible landing-place for the duke of Richmond (later king Henry VII of England) of the House of Lancaster - the Roses. The Bezants is from the county Arms. The Anchor symbolise the Bay as a Fleet Anchorage. The Duke did however land in South Wales in 1485. The Badge was approved in 1954.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Ship Badges by T.P. Stopford.
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