HMS Cawsand Bay, Royal Navy

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HMS CAWSAND BAY, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Cawsand Bay, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Per fess gold and blue; an anchor counterchanged with a circle coposed of in chief four roses red barbed and seeded proper and in base four bezants.

Origin/meaning

On the Southern Cornish coasat West of Plymouth Breakwater. Scouted as a possible landing-place for the duke of Richmond (later king Henry VII of England) of the House of Lancaster - the Roses. The Bezants is from the county Arms. The Anchor symbolise the Bay as a Fleet Anchorage. The Duke did however land in South Wales in 1485. The badge was approved in 1954.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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