HMS Selkirk, Royal Navy

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HMS SELKIRK, ROYAL NAVY

Coat of arms (crest) of the HMS Selkirk, Royal Navy
Official blazon
English Party per fess black and blue; a buckle silver piercing a scallop shell gold.

Motto: Hold fast

Origin/meaning

General Lesly (buckle) defeated General Graeme of Montrose (escallop) at Philiphaugh nera Selkirk in 1645. The badge was approved in 1927.


Literature: Image from Pinterest. Information from Admiralty Badges Encyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford. Catgegory:Granted 1927