HMS Pyrrhus, Royal Navy

	HMS PYRRHUS, ROYAL NAVY Country:United Kingdom

Official blazon
English	Green; an elephant charging proper collar and anklet steel blue.

Pyrrhus, King of Epirus used Elephants to deafeat the Romans in 281 BC. The badge was approved in 1946.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admiralty Badges Encylopaedia by T.P. Stopford.

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