HMS Orcadia, Royal Navy
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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