HMS Lewes, Royal Navy

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HMS LEWES, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Lewes, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English White; a lion's gamb erased blue charged with a mullet white grasping a cross crosslet fitchy black.

Motto: Fidei tenax

Origin/meaning

From the arms of the Town. Also a Town in Delaware, USA. The Ship was an Ex-US Navy Lend/Lease Destroyer as indicated by the Mullet. The badge was approved in 1941.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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