HMS Newmarket, Royal Navy

HMS NEWMARKET, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Blue; within a horseshoe gold a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

A famous horseracing town in Cambridgeshire Also a Town in New Hampshire, USA. The Star indicate that the Ship was Lend/Lease from the US Navy. The Badge was approved in 1941.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Amiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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