HMS Quiberon, Royal Navy
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HMS QUIBERON, ROYAL NAVY
| English | Blue; within a chaplet of laurel gold a hawk rising ermine amred and belled gold and charged on the breast with a fleur-de-lys also gold. |
Origin/meaning
From the Arms of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke who defeated the French in 1759 in Quiberon Bay, Brittany. The Badge was approved in 1942.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.