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[[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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Revision as of 09:54, 16 July 2023

HMS CHURCHILL, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Churchill, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Barry wavy of six white and cleste blue; alion rampant guardant white amred and langued red charged on the shoulder with a hurst thereon a mullet white and holding between the forepaws a staff gold flying therefrom to sinister a flag red charged with a dexter hand appaumy white.

Motto: Veteris vestigia flammae

Origin/meaning

From the Crest of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). Two Towns in the UK and one in Georgia, USA. The Ship was an ex US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer, hence the Us Military Star. The Latin Motto transaltes as "A spark of the old flame". The Badge was approved on 1 October 1941. In 1999 A Painting of this Badge was presented to the US Navy Destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill.


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