HMCS BEAVER Badge

Blazon

Or, four bars wavy light blue, a beaver sejant sable.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

This badge shows a beaver in the posture it usually assumes when at work on a tree, and is used here to suggest that this ship was industrious in all its undertakings, and “worked like a beaver.”

Remarks

Built in 1902 as a private yacht named Aztec, the original Beaver was commissioned into the RCN as an armed yacht in September 1940. Wearing pennants S1O then 210 she served until October 1944. The name was perpetuated by a Great Lakes training vessel (ex-ML 106) so named in 1954.

Colours

Black and gold.

Battle Honours

Louisburg, 1758; Athalante, 1804; Heligoland, 1914;

References

Badges Of The Canadian Navy by Arbuckle, J. Graeme. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 1987.