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===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
A Sperm Whale belonging to the family Physeteride. The Badge is a pun on the Name. The Badge was approved in 1959, replacing a similar Badge approved from 1936. In the Earlier Badge the Fish Hook was "a grapnel of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold".
A Sperm Whale belonging to the family Physeteride. The badge is a pun on the Name. The badge was approved in 1959, replacing a similar Badge approved from 1936. In the Earlier Badge the Fish Hook was "a grapnel of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold".




[[Literature]]: Image from Pinterest, Information from Admirality Ship Badges by T.P. Stopford.
[[Literature]]: Image from Pinterest, Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.  
 
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