HMS Leeds, Royal Navy

HMS LEEDS, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Blue; pendant from a ring in chief blue a fleece gold banded thereon a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

From the Arms of the City of Leeds. The Mullet allude to the Ship being a Lend/Lease Ex-US Navy Destroyer. The Badge was approved in 1941.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admriality Badges encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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