HMS Lancaster, Royal Navy

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HMS LANCASTER, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Lancaster, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English White; a rose barbed proper thereon a lion's face ducally crowned gold the crown charged with a hurt thereon a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

From the arms of John of Gaunt's Arms. The Mullet (Star) indicate that the Ship was a Ex-US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer. A City in Lancashire and also Seven Towns in the USA. The badge was approved in 1941.


Literature: Image from Defence Brand Portal Ministry of Defence. Infromation from Admirality Badges Encyclopedia by T.P. Stopford.

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