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Blazon

Azure, in base two barrulets wavy argent, above which a shearwater volant proper.
(Glossary of Heraldic Terms)

Significance

Bears the name of a water bird and the badge, appropriately enough, shows the bird flying over the sea.

Remarks

This establishment commemorates the sloop Shearwater which was used as a submarine tender between September 1914 and June 1919. The name was then used to rename the RCAF Station at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, which became HMCS Shearwater on December 1,1948. It remained so until the unification of the armed forces when it became CFB Shearwater.

Motto

“Supra Mare Volamus” (We Fly Over The Sea)

Colours

White and azure blue

Battle Honours

North Sea, 1940-1945.

References

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