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===Official blazon===
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|'''English'''
| Version 1 Pale blue; a male sea centaur gold blowing a conch shell silver in the dexter hand.</br>
Motto: Celeriter ferox.
 
Version 2 Green; a centaur drawing a bow all white. </br>
Motto: Celeriter ferox.
|}


===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
The Latin Motto translates as "Swiftly fierce". The first version was approved in 1920 and the second in 1953.
[[Literature]]: Image from Pinterest. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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