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.
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.
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Object Details
ID: | AAA3266 |
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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 |