Official boat badge of HMS Rainbow
The boat badge of HMS 'Rainbow' 1930. Official pattern approved in July 1929. The badge is diamond-shaped with a gold rope twist border representing a submarine. The design shows on a black field, a rainbow proper. It is made of cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. HMS 'Rainbow' was a Rainbow-class submarine built at Chatham and launched in 1930. At the start of the Second World War she was stationed in the Far East. She was re-deployed to the Mediterranean and is likely to have been sunk in collision with the Italian steamer 'Antonetta Costa' in 1940 of Bari.
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Object Details
ID: | AAA1943 |
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Collection: | Ship Badges |
Type: | Boat badge |
Display location: | Display - Neptune Court |
Vessels: | Rainbow (1930) |
Date made: | 1930-1940; 1930-40 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 165 x 165 x 15 mm |