HMS Chough, Royal Navy

HMS CHOUGH, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Blue; a cornish chough rising proper.

Origin/meaning

The Canting Badge was approved on 23 January 1945. A Name originally chosen for the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, Cornwall in 1944, but the Name HMS Seahawk was instead chosen.

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

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