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====Official blazon====
===Official blazon===
Party per fess wavy Or and Azure: an ancient threemasted ship of the First, sails furled, masts and rigging Proper, flags and pennons  Gules, each having a canton of the second charged with a  Saint Andrew's cross Argent.  
Party per fess wavy Or and Azure: an ancient threemasted ship of the First, sails furled, masts and rigging Proper, flags and pennons  Gules, each having a canton of the second charged with a  Saint Andrew's cross Argent.  


In an Escrol below the Shield is placed this Motto "Si Deus Nobiscum".
In an Escrol below the Shield is placed this Motto "Si Deus Nobiscum".


====Origin/meaning====
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were granted on November 11, 1886.  
The arms were granted on November 11, 1886.  


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|align="center"|[[File:kirkwallz1.jpg|center]]  <br/>Seal of Kirkwall from 1675.
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{{media}}
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[[Literature]] : Urquhart 1973
[[Civic Heraldry Literature - United Kingdom|'''Literature''']]:  
Urquhart 1973


[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities K]]
[[Category:United Kingdom Municipalities K]]
[[Category:Scotland]]
[[Category:Scotland]]
[[Category:Granted 1886]]
[[Category:Granted 1886]]
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