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Blazon

Argent, a pile azure, in the base of which a lymphad with banner of the first, sail unfurled charged with a cross gules and surmounting the mast a sun in splendour or charged with two lines in cross sable.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

James Bay is the arm of Hudson Bay that extends south into the northern part of central Canada This is denoted by the V-shaped device in blue on the white snowbound land. The heraldic ship refers to Captain James's ship Mary in which he sailed from England,which itself is represented by the cross of St. George. The sun with the crossed lines upon it is intended to indicate how the mariner-explorer Thomas James found his was around the seas and coasts of Canada using the sun for navigation. It is thus regarded as a symbol of exploration.

Remarks

James Bay was a member of the Bay class of minesweepers, and was commissioned in March 1954. Wearing pennant 152, she was paid off in February 1964.

Motto

"The true north strong and free"

Colours

White and blue

References

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