HMS Reading, Royal Navy

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HMS READING, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Reading, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Blue; a female head affronty couped proper ducally crowned gold around the neck a band blue thereon a mullet white.

Origin/meaning

From the arms of the Town in Berkshire, also a Town in Pennsylvania, USA. The Star symbolises that the Ship was Ex-US Navy Lend/Lease. The badge was approved in 1941.


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

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