HMS Urtica, Royal Navy

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HMS URTICA, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Urtica, Royal Navy

Official blazon

White; a sprig of stinging-nettle (Urtica) palewise proper.
Motto: This nettle - danger

Origin/meaning

The arms show a nettle branch, Urtica is the Latin name for the common nettle. The Motto is from Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1. The badge was approved in 1944.


Literature: Image from rnsubs.co.uk. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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