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LAERTES |
LARNE |
LENNOX |
LIBERTY |
Father of Ulysses and King of Ithaca, who hunted the Calydonian Boar. (Ship adopted by Didcot). (1945). Green; two boar spears in saltire gold headed white interlaced and suspended therefrom by a rib and a bugle horn gold. |
A river and lough of Ireland. The harp is an Irish emblem. (1939). Blue; a fountain charged with a harp stringed gold. |
Charles Lennox was Duke of Richmond and son of Charles II. (Ship adopted by Erith, Kent).(1943). White; four roses red slipped and leaved in saltire proper. |
The statue presented by France to the United States. (1943). Blue; the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour white. |
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LIGHTFOOT |
LIONESS |
LOYALTY |
LYSANDER |
A servant of Fortunio in Grimm’s Tales. (1945). Blue; a foot in a sandal winged all gold. |
A minesweeper of 1941. (1945). Blue; within a mascle gold the head of a lioness also gold. Malitiarum everriculum: The sweeper-away of malicious things. |
As firm as the English oak. (Ship adopted by Ripley, Yorkshire). (1944). Barry wavy of six white and blue; a sprig of three oak leaves proper. Fight for the King |
A Spartan naval commander who destroyed the Athenian fleet of 200 ships in 405BC at Aegospotami (Greek: goat river). (1945). Blue; a demi-goat erased gold supporting with the legs a trident also gold. |
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MAENAD |
MAGICIENNE |
MAMELUKE |
MANDATE |
A female follower of Bacchus, usually depicted wearing panther skins or wreaths of vine. (1945). Blue; a panthers head erased pellety gold gorged with a chaplet of grapevine fructed proper. |
A cauldron for restoring lost youth kept and tended by the magician, Medea. The name of a French prize taken by the CHATHAM in 1781. (1945). Blue; Medea’s boiling cauldron embossed with a ram’s head gold upon an open fire of logs inflamed proper. |
Originally Caucasian slaves taken to Egypt where they finally gained power. (1946). Blue; two Mameluke swords in saltire proper hilted ivory guards gold between the blades in chief a Mameluke head dress white. |
(Latin: to command). A baton is a symbol of authority. (1945). Blue; a dexter arm embowed vambraced and gauntletted proper grasping a baton in bend gold. |
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MARINER |
MARMION |
MARVEL |
MARY ROSE |
Measuring and surveying instruments used at sea. This vessel was a minesweeper of 1945. (1945). Blue; a backstaff and a cross-staff all gold. Via versa via tuta:the swept channel is the safe way. |
Hereditary Champion of England who stood for the new Sovereign’s right to rule following Coronations. Duty performed until George IV’s Coronation in 1821. (1945). Red; on a plate in front of two swords in saltire white pommelled and hilted gold a sinister gauntlet fesswise proper. |
From the Arms of Andrew Marvel (1621-1678), famous Parliamentarian figure, poet and man of letters under Cromwell and Charles II. (1946). Gold; a leopard’s mask black tongue mouth and teeth proper eye black rimmed yellow. |
In 1669 Capt. Kempthorne in this ship, beat off seven Algerines and saved his convoy. He was knighted. Mary Rose was the sister of Henry VIII who married Louis XII of France and later Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. (1944). White; within a wreath of laurel green a fleur-de-lys blue surmounted by a rose per pale white and red barbed and seeded proper. |