HMS Cormorant, Royal Navy
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HMS CORMORANT, ROYAL NAVY
Official blazon
Blue; a cormorant (Phalacrocorax Carbo) on a rock gold holding in its beak an eel silver.
Motto: Laboris avidus
Origin/meaning
A Fish and Eel Eater, larger tha the more common Shag. The Latin Motto translates as "Greedy of work". The badge was approved on 29 July 1930.
Literature: Image from royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk. Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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