HMS Cachalot, Royal Navy

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HMS CACHALOT, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Cachalot, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Chief per fess barry wavy of four blue and white base blue a fish hook of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold.

Motto: Nec pluribus impar

Origin/meaning

A Sperm Whale belonging to the family Physeteride. The badge is a pun on the Name. The badge was approved in 1959, replacing a similar Badge approved from 1936. In the Earlier Badge the Fish Hook was "a grapnel of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold".


Literature: Image from Pinterest, Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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