"Missing" Badges

CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum

The Badge Project

"Missing" Badges

The following ships and establishments had an insignia. Official correspondence or old photographs show us that the insignia existed.

Either we do not hold a copy or the copy available is so small or of such poor quality that a reproduction can't be properly prepared. Anyone who can provide information about any of the badges from the following list is asked to contact the Badge Project.

1. BARRIE
2. BARRIE - eagle swooping down on U-boat
3. BEAVER - not known
4. CHATHAM- not known
5. CHEDABUCTO - not known
6. DUNDAS - town coat of arms
7. DUNVEGAN - two lions holding a shield; town badge?
8. FORT ERIE - town badge; river; two bridges and small plain
9. GALIANO - capital letter G
10. GUELPH - plaque - town coat of arms?
11. HUSKY - b. trapezoid design
12. KAMLOOPS - Ace of Diamonds?
13. LA MALBAIE - b. not known
14. LCI(L)118 - Lucky Canuck, horseshoe
15. LCI(L)135 - Lonesome Polecat, Al Capp cartoon character
16. LCI(L)276 - b. dark Maple Leaf with Canada written at the bottom
17. LCI(L)298 - woman dancing
18. LCI(L)299 - woman's head
19. LCI(L)306 - upper half of a seaman dressed in full rig
20. LUNENBURG - jumping cod fish, similar to badge for HMCS Skeena
21. MAHONE - not known
22. MAYFLOWER - Daisy Mae, shotgun and mayflower
23. ML 053 - Popeye (on the ship's funnel)
24. ML 057 - Polar bear and stars
25. ML 97 - Pluto on a submarine or torpedo
26. NIOBE (1st) - Maple Leaf?
27. NIOBE (2nd) - mermaid mural in wardroom
28. PORT ARTHUR - devil with grain elevator?
29. PREVOST - not known
30. QUEEN - not known
31. RAINBOW- capital letter R
32. REINDEER - head of reindeer, dangling Hitler by a strap
33. RCNVR Half Co - for various cities; shield containing the city's coat of arms (e.g. Halifax)
34. RESTIGOUCHE 1st - cartoon figures on gun shields, hatches, et cetera, drawn by Fuzz Howard
35. STELLARTON - Joe Carioca riding a U-boat
36. STRATFORD - b. cartoon minesweeper; c. plaque
37. WASAGA - Popeye-like figure of a broom wearing seaman's rig
38. WHITBY - town coat of arms