RN Crests

[rmarsden]

Crests cut from an album.

[Fatboy Ken]

I only hold 1 RN Crest in my collection

HMS Enterprise (dated c1936)

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Ken (The Fatboy)


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[RBJ MIlitaria]

I have just bought an album full of these is there any interest in such crests ?
BJ

[Guzzman]

Hi BJ!

These were incredibly popular during the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. Sheets of these designs were produced for collectors to add to their albums. This was all part of the general enthusiasm for the Royal Navy that existed at the time. I saw several intact sheets at a car boot fair in Lincolnshire a few months ago.

In the last decade of the 19th century ships started to adopt a simple badge or emblem. For ships in service, they were usually designed by the ships' officers; for new ships, by the shipbuilder and the quality of the designs varied considerably. Some were very simple - one example being the first letter of the ship's name set in a circle. Some were taken from the crest of the Captain's or Admiral's Arms, and some were very effective and clever designs that were later adopted as the official badge of the ship after slight modification and are still in use today.

Where a ship wore a badge featuring a design of the Captain's or Admiral's Arms, when they changed command, the badge design in many cases, would go with them. It was not unusual for a single ship to have several different designs during her service, and it was also common for different ships to have the same or a very similar badge.

There also appeared, especially on the 'new' Torpedo Boat Destroyers, designs that were extremely irreverent, and of course, some that were quite funny.

It was therefore decided to put things on a more formal footing and in 1918 the Ship's Badges Committee was established to select designs for warships badges.

The printed examples found today either came from the printed sheets that were produced for general sale or were cut from ship's headed notepaper which was used for general correspondence. A lot of people still collect them.

Pete

[Mike Jackson]

If any collector has an image of the crest of the First World War HMS Ferret I should very much like to see it. The ship was recommissioned (fourth ship of the name I believe) in a specialist training role c 1982. Mike

[RBJ MIlitaria]

just checked the album and it is all army and Indian army crests sorry for confussion but some nice regiments in there

[Arthur]

Originally Posted by Mike Jackson

If any collector has an image of the crest of the First World War HMS Ferret I should very much like to see it. The ship was recommissioned (fourth ship of the name I believe) in a specialist training role c 1982. Mike

Good afternoon Mike,

I have a black and white image of the HMS letterhead and I would presume that it would have been all one colour!

Hope this help you.

Regards
Arthur

[1664]

I've picked up quite a few of these over the years - come RM ones attached.
Yours
John