HMS Georgetown, Royal Navy

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HMS GEORGETOWN, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Georgetown, Royal Navy

Official blazon

White; a cross couped red and enfiled in chief by a mural crwon gold cahrged with a hurt thereon a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

A Ex US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer hence the US Military Star. The Mural Crown and the Cross is a pun on the Name. Which is carried by one Town near Paisley, Scotland and five in the USA. The Badge was approved in 1941.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.