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ROSAMUND |
ROSARIO |
ROWENA |
SEABEAR |
An allusion to Rosamund the Fair, mistress of Henry II. She died in 1176. (1946). Barry wavy of ten white and blue; within a mascle gold a rose red barbed seeded and slipped proper. |
A Spanish prize taken in 1797. (Ship adopted by Carlton, Notts.). (1943). White; a chaplet of eight roses in orle barbed slipped and leaved proper. |
From Sir Walter Scott’s novel ‘Ivanhoe’. An original ship’s badge. (1926). Black; a horse’s head couped white. Loyal surtout (Fr): Loyal above all. |
Breeds in the remotest Polar areas. A punning motto for a bear. ‘Ursus’ is Latin for ‘bear’. Early: Green; a seabear proper muzzled gold with a rope red. (1944). Later:Blue; a seabear’s head affronty erased at the neck white. Rursus et rursus: Again and again. |
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SERENE |
SKIPJACK |
SPANKER |
SQUIRREL |
A tranquil scene at sea. The design was for a 1918 destroyer. (1919). Blue; over four wavelets a moon in her complement silver. Per saltus attingo: By leaps I strike. |
A fish with unusual attributes. Torpedoes also skip when running awash. (1933). Blue; a skipjack naiant silver. Per saltus attingo: By leaps I strike. |
English gold coin minted 1787-1799: worth a guinea (£1.1s.0d). (Ship adopted by Stalybridge). (1943). Blue; the reverse of a spade guinea gold. |
A suitable minesweeper name. (1944). Blue; a plate charged with a squirrel sejant holding a nut proper. By diligence. |
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STORMCLOUD |
SYLVIA |
TANGANYIKA |
THISBE |
The mariner’s warning. The motto was for the destroyer of 1918. (1943). Blue; a north storm cone hoisted from halyards proper. Omnibus tempestatibus: In all weathers. |
From Shakespeare’s ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’, Act IV Scene 2. (1944). Blue; a woman’s head couped at the neck proper wreathed about the temple and neck with a chaplet of oak proper. |
From the Colonial Coat of Arms. The ship was named in response to the gift of money to Britain in WW2. The country is now Tanzania. (1943). Blue; the head of a giraffe erased at the base of the neck proper. |
The lover of Pyramus who committed suicide beside a mulberry tree when she falsely thought Pyramus was dead. (1939). White; a mulberry tree couped proper. |
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TRUELOVE |
VESTAL |
WATERWITCH |
WAVE |
A name dating from 1596. (1944). White; a true lover’s knot blue.
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The sacred fire brought by Aeneas to Rome and tended by Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. (Ship affiliated to Camberley). (1943). Blue; an alter gold inflamed proper. |
A kindly (white) variety but on a broomstick nevertheless. (Ship adopted by Didcot). (1943). Per fess wavy white and barry wavy of six blue and white; a witch on a broom volant proper. |
Britannia first appeared on copper coins in 1665. (1945). Blue; a representation of Britannia armed with a trident and shield white standing on a rock proper issuant from barry wavy of four white and blue.
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WELCOME |
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WELFARE |
The open door. (1945). Blue; a fort masoned proper with portcullis raised gold. |
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The name dates from 1350. (1945). White; two sprigs of wild clematis slipped and leaved in saltire proper.
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