HMS Lewes, Royal Navy
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HMS LEWES, ROYAL NAVY
English | White; a lion's gamb erased blue charged with a mullet white grasping a cross crosslet fitchy black. Motto: Fidei tenax |
Origin/meaning
From the Arms of the Town. Also a Town in Delaware, USA. The Ship was an Ex-US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer as indicated by the Mullet. The badge was approved in 1941.
Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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