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Ship & Unit Badges

Badges, approval dates and designers of New Zealand Ships and Units.

Ship/Unit:

WRNZNS

Achilles

Arabis

Arbutus

Bellona

Blackpool

Black Prince

Canterbury

Charles Upham

Chatham

Diomede

Dunedin

Echuca

Endeavour

Gambia

Haku

Hāwea

Hickleton

Hīnau

Inverell

Irirangi

Kahawai

Kāhu

Kaniere

Kiama

Kiwi

Kiwi

Kōura

Kuparu

Lachlan

Leander

Mako

Manawanui

Manga

Māori

Maroro

Moa

Monowai

New Zealand

New Zealandia

Ngapona

Olphert

Otago

Paea

Parore

Pegasus

Philomel

Pūkakī

Resolution

Rotoiti

Royalist

Santon

Stawell

Southland

Tākapu

Tāmure

Tarāpunga

Tāmaki

Tāmaki

Taranaki

Tasman

Taupō

Te Kaha

Te Mana

Toroa

Tui

Tūtira

Waikato

Wakakura

Wakefield

Wellington

Chief of Naval Staff

Maritime Commander

HMNZ Dockyard

Hydrographic Office

RNZN Hospital

834 Squadron

Navy Museum

Sea Cadet Corps

Approved:

April 1969

July 1931

November 1947

Late 1947

July 1943

September 1940

November 1943

January 1970

November 1995

not known

March 1922

February 1919

Badge not issued

July 1919

March 1942

November 1963

March 1951

N/A

May 1985

N/A

February 1954

not known

July 1993

February 1951

N/A

November 1947

March 1984

May 1975

October 1973

April 1958

April 1930

July 1956

July 1993

November 1961

April 1938

July 1964

March 1984

December 1976

unknown

unknown

late 1951

August 1953

mid 1960

July 1956

February 1969

September 1920

not known

February 1951

1997

February 1951

December 1919

N/A

N/A

August 1983

September 1965

n/a

September 1965

1941

1947-54

mid 1960

April 1948

February 1951

June 1995

1997

late 1951

February 1953

March 1951

March 1966

February 1965

May 1964

March 1983

1986

March 1993

July 1967

1970

N/A

April 1944

1987

October 1976

Designer:

Mrs Molly Falla

RM Major Charles ffoulkes

not known no colour version ever produced

Believed to be HMNZ Dockyard

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

winner of a design competition

Chief of General Staff’s office NZDF

Badge never formally approved

RM Major Charles ffoulkes

not known one of the first under the new policy

no badge ever designed or officially approved

RM Major Charles ffoulkes

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

HMNZ Dockyard

not known

used existing RN badge – not changed

HMNZ Dockyard

badge designed & used but never approved

NZ Naval Board

HMNZ Dockyard

RNZN Seamanship School

not known

badge designed but never approved

HMNZ Dockyard

Redesign by HMNZ Dockyard

HMNZ Dockyard

HMNZ Dockyard

Commanding Officer’s suggestion in 1955

RM Major Charles ffoulkes

Senior Fisheries Officer/HMNZ Dockyard

Only for the third vessel to carry the name

HMNZ Dockyard

RN initially but design revised in 1949 by RNZN

HMNZ Dockyard

HMNZ Dockyard – first Moa did not have an official badge

HMNZ Dockyard for survey ship not for previous ship

an unofficial badge held in Wardroom at Philomel

unofficial badge when the ship in commission

not known possibly RNZNVR Auckland Division

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

winner of the 1958 competition for a design

Senior Fisheries Officer/HMNZ Dockyard

HMNZ Dockyard

RM Major Charles ffoulkes changed for RNZNVR

believed to have been designed by the ship’s company

not known possibly HMNZ Dockyard

winner of a design competition in 1996

ship’s company and Mr V F Fisher

RM Major Charles ffoulkes

used existing RN badge – not changed

no badge officially designed or officially approved

winner of a design competition 1983

Commanding Officer HMNZS Lachlan

no badge designed

Commanding Officer HMNZS Lachlan

original diamond design

changed design in 1942 modified by 1954 HMNZ Dockyard

winner of a design competition 1958

HMNZ Dockyard

ship’s company of HMNZS Taupō

winner of a design competition

winner of a design competition 1996

RNZNVR Otago Division

ship’s company of HMNZS Tui – badge redesigned for new Tui in 1970

ship’s company of HMNZS Tutira

winner of design competition 1964

RNZNVR Wellington Division

Naval Staff

design first completed in 1930s but changed for the frigate in RNZN service

HMNZ Dockyard

Commodore K F Wilson

HMNZ Dockyard

Mr E.W.Jones

Ward Master Lt CDR Neville Peach – not officially approved

Sir Arthur Cochrane Clarenceux King of Arms

modified design of RNZN official badge

unknown but based on British design.

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