Official boat badge of HMS Dunedin
The boat badge of HMS 'Dunedin' 1918. The official pattern approved in September 1919. It depicts on a field green, a ram's head silver with horns gold, surrounded by a wreath of corn, gold. 'The badge is a pentagonal shape with a gold rope twist border representing a cruiser. It is made of cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. 'DUNEDIN' is inscribed on the reverse. The design is based on the arms of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. It was founded by Scottish emigrants and given the Gaelic name of Edinburgh. The only ship in the Royal Navy to bear this name. She was a Danae-class light cruiser built at Newcastle-on-Tyne and commissioned in 1919. In 1931 she was engaged in relief work in New Zealand after the Hawkes Bay earthquake. She was stationed in the Caribbean during the early part of the Second World War and captured a number of German merchant ships. She was sunk by torpedoes from U-124 on 24 November 1941 east of the St Paul's Rocks off the coast of Brazil.
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Object Details
ID: | AAA1951 |
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Collection: | Ship Badges |
Type: | Boat badge |
Display location: | Display - Sea Things Gallery |
Vessels: | Dunedin (1918) |
Date made: | 1918; 1919-1941 1919-41 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 135 x 140 x 15 mm |