HMS Thunderer, Royal Navy

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HMS THUNDERER, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Thunderer, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English 1919 version: Black; a dexter cubit arm erect the hand grasping a thunderbolt all gold.

Motto: Eripimus joven fulmen.
1952 version: Blue; arising from clouds proper charged with forked lightning white the figure of a demi-man bearded armed and turned to sinister grasping in his dexter hand over his shoulder sinister a hammer.
1983 version: Blue; chief nine bolts of Lightning issuant from a cloud of hwite a demi-man in plate armour bearded and wild-haired grasping in birth hands over the shoulder sinister a maul proper.
Motto:Beat while the iron 'tis hot.

Origin/meaning

Three different Badge approved 1919, 1952 and 1983. The first Motto translates as "We snatch the thunder from Jove".


Literature: Image from Pinterest. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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