Boat badge of HMS Grasshopper

Boat badge, HMS 'Grasshopper' 1939. Unpainted, diamond-shaped badge in cast brass attached to a wooden backboard. Admiralty description: On a fess wavy field, a grasshopper proper.
The gunboat and a small flotilla left Singapore after it fell to the Japanese. HMS Grasshopper was beached on the island of Tjabia, 14 February 1942 after a Japanese air attack. 18 of the crew died on the island from Malaria or scrub typhus, two escaped and the remainder eventually surrendered to the Japanese. A party returned to the island in 1945 to locate the crew graves and retrieved the ship's badge from under the binnacle.

Object Details

ID: AAA3266
Collection: Ship Badges
Type: Boat badge
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Grasshopper 1939 (HMS)
Date made: circa 1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 190 x 190 x 30 mm
Parts: Boat badge of HMS Grasshopper