HMS Burwell, Royal Navy

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HMS BURWELL, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Burwell, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Barry wavy of six white and blue; a thistle slipped and leaved proper charged with a hurt theron a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

In the County of Cambridgeshire. The Thistles represents a pun. Ther are Two Place Names in the UK and one in Nebraska, USA. The Star symbolises the fact that the Ship was an ex US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer. The badge was approved in 1941.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Badges Encylopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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