HMS Hogue, Royal Navy

HMS HOGUE, ROYAL NAVY

Official blazon

English

Blue; within a wreath of laurel gold a chess rook white.

Origin/meaning

Admrial Rooke destroyed the remants of the French Fleet in the Battle of 1692 off Cherbourg. From his Arms. The Badge was approved in 1944.

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