HMCS Athabaskan, Royal Canadian Navy

	HMCS ATHABASKAN, ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY Country: Canada

Official blazon
French	Sur champ d'argent un Indien vêntu d'une culotte de peau, de jambières et de moccasins perlés, nu à la ceinture et portant collier de griffes d'ours et conquillages bleus ainisi que boucles d'oreilles des mêmes. Il porte en chef coiffure de plumes et monte à cru en cheval indien en trot arrêté. Il est armé d'un arc et d'une flèche de gueules, cette dernière pointée ver le sol.
English	Argent, a North American Indian, in full feathered head dress proper, clad in buckskin breeches, leggings and moccasins or, the latter beaded azure and gules, bare to the vaist except for a necklace of bear's claws argent and shells azure and ear ornaments of the last, mounted bare-back upon an Indian pony being halted from the trot. The Indian holds a drawn bow with arrow gules pointing downwards.

Origin/meaning

The badge is based on the design which had been planned by the Officers of the original HMCS Athabaskan before she was sunk. In honouring the men who perished then, the elements of the planned badge has been kept. The Motto not shown in the Image is "We fight as one".

Literature:Sent by the Canadian Embassy in Oslo.