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Official boat badge of HMS Bee
The boat badge of HMS 'Bee' 1915. Official pattern approved in 1924. The badge is diamond-shaped with a gold rope twist border representing a naval auxiliary. The design depicts a beehive and four bees gold, on a blue field. The badge is cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. HMS 'Bee' was a river gunboat launched at Troon in 1915. Between the wars she served on the Yangtze River and was scrapped in 1939 in Shanghai.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA1944 |
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| Collection: | Ship Badges |
| Type: | Boat badge |
| Display location: | Display - Neptune Court |
| Vessels: | Bee (1915) |
| Date made: | 1924-1939; 1924-39 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 165 x 160 x 15 mm |
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