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Blazon

Azure, a spur gear argent charged with a device consisting of three ermine spots conjoined in the center, one pointing to the chief, once to the dexter base and once to the sinister base in trefoil fashion sable, and between them issuing from the center, three thistle blooms coloured proper.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

The spur gear refers to the machinery of the engineering branch, while the ermine is from the arms of Brittany, in reference to the origin of the name, Cape Breton, so called by the fishermen and settlers from Brittany. The thistle refers to the Scottish settlers.

Remarks

Cape Breton (I) was a member of the 1942-1943 River class frigate rnnstruction programme. She was commissioned in October 1943 and wore pennant K350 until paid off in January 1946. Cape Breton (II) was originally HMS Ramborough Head, and she was transferred to the RCN from the RN in 1952. She was commissioned in January 1953, and wore pennant 100. She was paid off into reserve in February 1964, and was used as the Fleet Maintenance Group (Pacific) Headquarters in Esquimalt, British Columbia until the late-1990s, before being sunk as an artificial reef near Snake Island in Nanaimo harbour.

Motto

Le chance ne change pas la course" (Chance changes not our course)

Colours

White and black

Battle Honours

Arctic, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Atlantic, 1944-1945.

References

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