HMS Mauritius, Royal Navy

HMS MAURITIUS, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

White in base a bar wavy blue in chief a bar wavy blue surmounted by two branches of sugarcane in saltire proper surmounted by a key erect ward downwards to the siniste red.

Origin/meaning

From the Arms of the Indian Ocean Island. The Badge was approved in 1940.

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

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