HMS Electra, Royal Navy

HMS ELECTRA, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Bule; a female head and shoulders proper arising from wavelets silver and green the hair dispalyed proper. Motto:Fulgens ab undis

Origin/meaning

Electra was ain Greek Mythology the Wildest of the Pleiades. The Latin Motto translates as "Shining from the waves". The Badge was approved in 1934.

Literature: Image from ebay.com. Information from Admirality Ship Badges by T.P. Stopford.

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