HMS Challenger, Royal Navy

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HMS CHALLENGER, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Challenger, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Blue; on a mount white a stag statant bellwing proper

Motto: Depugnare superbas

Origin/meaning

From Ewin Landseer's painting The Challenge (1844), but Reversed. the Latin motto traslates as "To fight the proud". The badge was approved in 1931.


Literature: Image from picclick.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.


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