HMS Challenger, Royal Navy: Difference between revisions

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HMS CHALLENGER, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon
English	Blue; on a mount white a stag statant bellwing proper Motto: Depugnare superbas

From Ewin Landseer's painting The Challenge (1844), but Reversed. the Latin motto traslates as "To fight the proud". The Badge was approved in 1931.

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

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	From Ewin ~~Landseeräs~~ painting The Challenge (1844), but Reversed. the Latin motto traslates as "To fight the proud". The Badge was approved in 1931.		From Ewin Landseer's painting The Challenge (1844), but Reversed. the Latin motto traslates as "To fight the proud". The Badge was approved in 1931.