| Acheron |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Sep, 1928 | |
| Motto | Post tenebras lux. (After darkness, light.) | |
| Symbology | The Acheron is the River of Sorrows in Hades, which all souls have to cross. | |
| Design Notes | Black with four wavy bars of silver. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Achilles |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 20th Jul, 1931 | |
| Motto | Foriter in re. (Bravely in action.) | |
| Symbology | Achilles is the hero of Homer's 'Iliad'. | |
| Design Notes | The head of Achilles, helmeted in gold on a red background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Adamant |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Nov, 1919 | |
| Motto | Lead On. | |
| Symbology | From the arms of Sir William Hotham (1736-1813), who commanded the Adamant at Camperdown in 1797. | |
| Design Notes | A sword inflamed with a silver pommel and gold hilt on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | Submarine Depot Ship. | |
| Aeneas |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 16th May, 1946 | |
| Motto | Audentis fortuna juvat. (Fortune favours the daring.) | |
| Symbology | Aeneas was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite who escaped the siege of Troy and thereafter wandered the world. | |
| Design Notes | A classical Greek demi-warrior armoured in white, decorated with a gold helmet crested also in gold, carrying in the dexter hand a spear and in the sinister a white shield on a red background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Affray |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 20th Jul, 1945 | |
| Motto | Strong in battle. | |
| Symbology | An affray is a brawl. | |
| Design Notes | Four boarding axes in Saltaire are interlaced in white on a red background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Agamemnon |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | ||
| Motto | Multa Tula Fecique. (I have borne much and done much). | |
| Symbology | As King of Mycenae, Agamemnon commanded the Greek army at the siege of Troy. | |
| Design Notes | Blue background. A dexter arm embowed sinister, the hand grasping a throwing spear fesswise in gold. | |
| Additional Notes | Identical to the unofficial badge. | |
| Agincourt |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 6th May, 1946 | |
| Motto | Nestroque! (Now strike!) | |
| Symbology | King Henry V defeated the French at Agincourt in 1415. One of the king's insignia was an antelope. | |
| Design Notes | A heraldic antelope statant within a wreath of palm, gold-white-armed, crined and chained, gold-langued, blue on a red background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Alaric |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | The thicker the hay, the easier mowed. | |
| Symbology | Alaric was the king of the Visigoths who ravaged Rome in 1410. | |
| Design Notes | A sword with a white pommel and hilt of gold surmounted by two white scythes in saltire, on a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Alaunia |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 16th May, 1946 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | The name alludes to the Alani horsemen who occupied part of Caucasia. | |
| Design Notes | A black horse's erased head wearing a gold collar on a white plate with a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | Submarine Depot Ship | |
| Alcide |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 17th Jul, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | A prize vessel name from 1755. Shows a Supporter from the Arms of Admiral Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, who captured the ship. | |
| Design Notes | A sea lion, erect, white, goutty-de-larmes, armed and langued red, holding between the paws a fleur-de-lis in gold on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Alderney |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | From the arms of the Channel Island of the same name. (The ship is affiliated). | |
| Design Notes | A gold lion rampant, ensigned with a royal crown in red, holding in his dexter paw a sprig of oak proper on a green background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Alderney |
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| Official | No | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | N/A | |
| Motto | Creme De La Creme. | |
| Symbology | The Alderney is an extinct breed of dairy cattle. It originated in, and is named for, the island of Alderney in the Channel Islands. | |
| Design Notes | ||
| Additional Notes | ||
| Alecto |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd May, 1920 | |
| Motto | Cave prolem. (Beware my brood.) | |
| Symbology | Alecto is one of the Furies of Greek mythology. | |
| Design Notes | Two gold vipers confronting each other with their tails involved on a green background. | |
| Additional Notes | Submarine Depot Ship. This ship was adopted by Coseley, Staffs. | |
| Alliance |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | Yes | |
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | Undivided | |
| Symbology | A French prize vessel of 1795. The design alludes to the Forces of the Crown. | |
| Design Notes | In front of two conjoined wings are two white swords in saltire with white pommels and hilts of gold surmounted by an anchor also in gold on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Ambrose |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 29th Jul, 1921 | |
| Motto | De profundis adsumus. (Out of the depths we are here.) | |
| Symbology | Saint Ambrose was an early father of the church. | |
| Design Notes | A gold crozier interlaced in the base with three wavy bars of silver on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | A submarine depot ship which became HMS Cochrane in 1938. | |
| Ambush |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 3rd Nov, 1945 | |
| Motto | Hide and seek. | |
| Symbology | Lying in wait. A submarine name. | |
| Design Notes | On a mount of green, a bush all proper; issuant therefrom are three spears, one erect, two in saltire proper. On a black background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Amphion |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 17th Jan, 1933 | |
| Motto | Fear none. | |
| Symbology | Amphion was a son of the god Zeus. The design alludes to the crest of Captain Thomas Hardy (1769-1839). Nelson's Flag Captain in Amphion. | |
| Design Notes | A green dragon's head above a naval crown on a white backgroud. | |
| Additional Notes | The badge is now used by a Canadian Sea Cadet Unit. | |
| Anchorite |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 26th Aug, 1946 | |
| Motto | We prey alone. | |
| Symbology | A maritime hermit or recluse. | |
| Design Notes | An anchor, bendwise or recluse, in gold, surmounted by a hermit crab proper on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Andrew |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 23rd Aug, 1946 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | The Patron Saint of Scotland. | |
| Design Notes | A saltire couped white with two thistles slipped and leaved proper. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Anson |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | ||
| Motto | Nil desperandum. (Despair of nothing.) | |
| Symbology | From the Arms of A of F Baron Anson of Soberton (1697-1762), who circumnavigated the world in the Centurion in 1741-1743. He was the last Sea Lord to fight at sea. | |
| Design Notes | Out of a ducal coronet of gold, a spearhead and shaft proper. Per fess wavy white and blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | Exact date badge passed not known as Pattern has been lost but was in 1940. | |
| Artemis |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 10th Nov, 1944 | |
| Motto | Clam cito certo. {Secretly, swiftly, surely.) | |
| Symbology | Artemis (or Diana) is the Goddess of the Hunt, etc. | |
| Design Notes | A quiver of arrows and a bow in saltire all in gold surmounted by a white crescent on a blue background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Artful |
|
|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 12th Oct, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | No particular species is singled out. | |
| Design Notes | A monkey passant guardant proper on a green background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Artifex |
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 13th Jun, 1946 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | The name is derived from the Latin for "artificer". | |
| Design Notes | Three sledgehammers: one erect, two in saltire, surmounted by a black anvil on a gold background. | |
| Additional Notes | Submarine Depot Ship | |
| Astute |
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|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 30th May, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | A retriever's favourite work. | |
| Design Notes | A retriever statant proper with a grouse, also proper, in his mouth on a white background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Audacious |
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|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | ||
| Motto | Hide and seek | |
| Symbology | The Audacious name goes all the way back to an 1869 ironclad and a 1912 King George V-class battleship. | |
| Design Notes | The background pattern consists of ermine (white with black tail markings), symbolizing dignity and nobility. It features a central blue anchor surrounded by three red escallop shells. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Auriga |
|
|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 20th Jul, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | The Charioteer, after whom a constellation was named. | |
| Design Notes | A gold chariot with two white horses, the charioteer habited in white with gold armour. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Aurochs |
|
|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 17th Jul, 1945 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | An extinct species of European ox. | |
| Design Notes | The head of an ox caboshed black on a white background. | |
| Additional Notes | ||
| Ausonia |
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|
| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 13th Jun, 1946 | |
| Motto | Si frangites reparamus. (If you break it, we will mend it.) | |
| Symbology | The ancient name for Italy. The house flag shows a lion's mask. | |
| Design Notes | A carpenter's axe and a sledgehammer in saltire proper, surmounted by a gold lion's mask on a red background. | |
| Additional Notes | Submarine Depot Ship | |
| Bonaventure |
|
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| Official | Yes | |
| Broad Design | No | |
| Admiralty Approved | 11th Jun, 1940 | |
| Motto | ||
| Symbology | A composite Elizabethan word. The griffin is from the Arms of Drake. The horseshoe translates 'bonaventure' into 'good luck'. | |
| Design Notes | A red griffin statant wings extended all inclined to profile upon upon a reversed gold horse shoe on a barry wavy background of six white and blue. | |
| Additional Notes | Elizabeth Bonaventure was Drake's flagship in the West Indies and at Cadiz. | |
Oberon (N 21) |
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| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O1 |
|
Fate: She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie |
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Oberon (N 21) |
|
| Class: | 1924 - 1945: Oberon Class |
| Built By: | |
| Build Group: | O1 |
|
Fate: She was decommissioned at Blyth on 5 July 1944 and was sold for scrap on 24 August 1945. Oberon was scrapped at Dunston by Clayton and Davie |
|
By the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities.
Written in collaboration with the former Soviet submarine design bureaus, Norman Polmar and K J Moore authoritatively demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.
20 pages added or updated in the last 2 month
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