Zr.Ms. Willem van der Zaan, Netherlands Navy: Difference between revisions
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ZR.MS. WILLEM VAN DER ZAAN, NETHERLANDS NAVY (frigate of the Kortenaer class)
Official blazon
Azuur; een steigerend paard van zilver.
Origin/meaning
The Badge is based on the Arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The Badge was approved on 11 June 1952.
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