Zr.Ms. Willem van der Zaan, Netherlands Navy
ZR.MS. WILLEM VAN DER ZAAN, NETHERLANDS NAVY (frigate of the Kortenaer class)
Official blazon
Azuur; een steigerend paard van zilver.
Origin/meaning
The badge is based on the arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting Algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The badge was approved on 11 June 1952.
Literature: Information from Emblemen van de Koninklijke Marine by L.L.M. Eekhout, O. Schutte and P.J.F. van der Pol.
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