"Missing" Badges
CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum
The Badge Project
"Missing" Badges
The following ships and establishments had an insignia. Official correspondence or old photographs show us that the insignia existed.
Either we do not hold a copy or the copy available is so small or of such poor quality that a reproduction can't be properly prepared. Anyone who can provide information about any of the badges from the following list is asked to contact the Badge Project.
- BEAVER - not known
- CHATHAM- not known
- CHEDABUCTO - not known
- DUNDAS - town coat of arms
- DUNVEGAN - two lions holding a shield; town badge?
- GALIANO - capital letter G
- HUSKY - b. trapezoid design
- KAMLOOPS - Ace of Diamonds?
- LA MALBAIE - b. not known
- LCI(L)118 - Lucky Canuck, horseshoe
- LCI(L)135 - Lonesome Polecat, Al Capp cartoon character
- LCI(L)276 - b. dark Maple Leaf with Canada written at the bottom
- LCI(L)298 - woman dancing
- LCI(L)299 - woman's head
- LCI(L)306 - upper half of a seaman dressed in full rig
- LUNENBURG - jumping cod fish, similar to badge for HMCS Skeena
- MAHONE - not known
- ML 053 - Popeye (on the ship's funnel)
- ML 057 - Polar bear and stars
- ML 97 - Pluto on a submarine or torpedo
- NIOBE (1st) - Maple Leaf?
- NIOBE (2nd) - mermaid mural in wardroom
- PORT ARTHUR - devil with grain elevator?
- PREVOST - not known
- QUEEN - not known
- RAINBOW- capital letter R
- RCNVR Half Co - for various cities; shield containing the city's coat of arms (e.g. Halifax)
- RESTIGOUCHE 1st - cartoon figures on gun shields, hatches, et cetera, drawn by Fuzz Howard
- STELLARTON - Joe Carioca riding a U-boat
- STRATFORD - b. cartoon minesweeper; c. plaque
- WASAGA - Popeye-like figure of a broom wearing seaman's rig
- WHITBY - town coat of arms
Anyone who can provide details of the whereabouts of missing badges from the list is asked to contact the Badge Project at the following address:
