HMS Calliope, Royal Navy
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HMS CALLIOPE, ROYAL NAVY
History: A Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Drillship on the Tyne from 1907. The Division moved ashore in 1967 and was acommissioned as Royal Naval reserve in 1968.
English | Red; within two laurel branches green fructed gold a Greek lyre gold. |
Origin/meaning
The Chief of the Nine Muses, Muse of Heroic Poetry and Mother of Orpheus. The badge was approved in 1923.
Literature: Image from Defence Brand Portal Ministry of Defence. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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