HMS Quiberon, Royal Navy

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HMS QUIBERON, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Quiberon, Royal Navy
Official blazon
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.