Yarmouth (1959) ship's crest.
A half plate glass plate negative. A close view of a cast metal crest for the Type 12 frigate Yarmouth (1959) under construction in John Brown & Co Ltd's shipyard at Clydebank. The crest is hexagonal with the ship's name at the top edge under a navy crown. The heraldic creature in the middle is a gold headed lion rampant on a red background with a silver fish tail on a blue bavckground, described as 'Per pale Gules and Azure a Lion passant guardant in pale Or dimidiated with a Herring naiant in pale Argent'. The crest is said to measure 20½ inches by 16½ inches. A vertical format image.
Object Details
| ID: | N66244 |
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| Collection: | Historic Photographs |
| Type: | Glass plate negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Portsmouth Dockyard Photographic Unit; John Brown & Company |
| Vessels: | Yarmouth (1959) |
| Date made: | 1957-11-29; 1957-12-03 1957-12-25 1958-02-06 1958-02-20 1958-03-07 1958-04-01 1958-04-21 1958-05-09 1958-06-09 1958-07-01 1958-08-05 1958-08-25 1958-09-09 1958-10-07 1958-10-27 1958-11-19 1958-12-15 1959-01-07 1959-01-19 1959-02-10 1959-03-09 1959-03-23 1959-04-14 1959-05-06 1959-05-21 1959-06-09 1959-07-03 1959-09-08 1959-10-19 1959-10-59 1959-11-04 1960-01-07 1968-09 1969-1976 1974-12-12 1981-05 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |