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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
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'''Country''':United Kingdom[[File:United Kingdom.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br> | |||
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|Blue; a flying fish with the tail of a scorpion white and in base two bars wavy also white. | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | |||
A composite Elizabethean Word. Horseshoe for Good Luck. The Griffin from the arms of Sir Francis Drake whose Flag Ship in the West Indies and at Cadiz was Elizabeth Bonaventure. The Badge was approved on 11 June 1940. | |||
[[Literature]]:Image from picclick.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encylopaedia by T.P. Stopford. | |||
{{uk}} | {{uk}} | ||
{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Navy heraldry]] | [[Category:Navy heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1940]] | [[Category:Granted 1940]] | ||