No 842 Squadron, FAA

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NO 842 SQUADRON, FAA

History: First formed in 1943 at Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent as a Torpedo-Bomber-reconnaissance Squadron. Later an Anti Submarine Warfare Squadron with Marlets operation from the Azores. Disbanded in 1945.

Coat of arms (crest) of the No 842 Squadron, FAA
Official blazon
English Blue; over a base of six white and blue a winged anchor erect white suspended therefrom by a riband gold a bugle horn also white.

Motto: Tantivity

Origin/meaning

The Badge was approved in 1944


Literature: Image from https://www.iwm.org.uk/. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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