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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