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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
The Badge is based on the Arms of Willem van der Zaan (1621-1669), Rear-Admiral of the Amsterdam Admirality. Distiguished himself in the First and Second Anglo-Dutch Wars and in fighting Pirates in the Mediterranean. Killed in Action fighting algerian Pirates on 17 March 1669. The Badge was approved on 11 June 1952. | |||
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[[Literature]]: | [[Literature]]: Information from Emblemen van de Koninklijke Marine by L.L.M. Eekhout, O. Schutte and P.J.F. van der Pol. | ||
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[[Category:Military heraldry of the Netherlands]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the Netherlands]] | ||
[[Category:Navy heraldry]] | [[Category:Navy heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1952]] | |||