Eagle and Anchor Badge - what is it

[Steve J]

Searched the web, with keywords Coast Guard, Air Sea Rescue, Eagle Anchor, Seagull Anchor, Albatross Anchor. Would anyone have seen this badge in their travels?

Eagle and Anchor embroidered badge. Size 4 inches high by 4 inches wide.

Thanks
Steve

[Alex Rice]

I think with the wings like that, it is probably meant to be a cormorant. Can't find any reference to cormorant on an anchor with a quick search though.
Cheers,
Alex

[Chacal]

It looks more like a Grappling-iron, or Grapnel, rather than an 'anchor'.

Graham

[Steve J]

Thanks for the comments so far, this is great progress.

Cormorant, can see that for sure.

Grapnel is a type of anchor and type of hook. In heraldry one definition I located is: "A grappling iron is a metal hook, tied to a line and thrown at enemy ships so they may be pulled closer. It is also called a “grappling hook” or “grapnel”. "

As a bird, Cormorants are excellent divers and excellent fisher-birds.

Retrieval of things that are in and below the surface of the water:
Anti-mine, minesweeper, anti-submarine.

[Phil2M]

Maybe worth contacting this lot?

https://www.da.mod.uk/alumni/the-cormorant-club

[Wooffy]

Is this not linked to Christmas Island?

They have something like this, not ideal by far but is it not the center of something like this: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/i...5de2357693.jpg

[mike_vee]

"Operation Grapple was the name of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Pacific Ocean as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple