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Blazon

On a field barry wavy of eighteen pieces argent and azure, a roundel or displaying a saltire gules charged in the center with a lymphad with four oars sable, sail argent, flags or.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

This name was chosen to honour the town of Dalhousie, New Brunswick. At the time a name was to be selected there was a ship of that name in the Royal Indian Navy, and so the town council decided that a suitable alternative should be suggested. East of the town, there was a point of land which jutted out into Chaleur Bay called Bon Ami Point, although it was known to the inhabitants of the area as Inch Arran. Early Scottish settlers had given the pomt this name, most likely a remembrance of the large island in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland. The badge design shows a round device (suggestive of the island) surrounded by water, upon which is displayed the red saltire from the arms of Bruce, and the lymphad derived from the arms of New Brunswick and from those of the Hamilton Earls of Arran.

Remarks

Inch Arran was a member of the 1943-1944 River class frigate programme. Commissioned in November 1944, she wore pennant K667 until she was paid off for conversion to a Prestonian class ocean escort. She then wore pennant 308 until finally paid off in June 1965.

Colours

Gold and scarlet

References

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