NEW DESTROYERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 24

NEW DESTROYERS

BADGE DIFFICULTIES

The Admiralty Badge Committee | seems to have had difficulty in finding j appropriate mottoes and badges for the new destroyers of the "I" class, which are now joining the fleet, says the "Manchester Guardian." Several of i the names new to the Navy List. The Impulsive is one of them, and she has been given %. volcano in eruption as her badge, with the motto "Cor unum, via una" (One heart, one way), which has no particular significance. The Ivanhoe's badge is the withered oak of the black knight's shield, but here again the motto, "Primus inter pares," is not strikingly fresh. The Imperial, another new name, has two crossed sceptres and an orb for badge, and the motto "Deuiri cole, regem scrva" (Worship God, honour the King).- For the Imogen, which has six forerunners in the Navy List, the I badge is a hand holding a mirror, and! the motto "Quit you like men." Incidentally, this is the only English-motto among the nine new ones.

The least satisfactory is that, of the Intrepid. The badge is a lion on the warpath, and the motto "Cela va sans dire." The part the last Intrepid played in the blocking ,of Zeebrugge might have been commemorated in-the badge with some Zeebrugge device and something appropriate for the motto. The happiest motto is that for the Icarus— "Bene est tentare" (It is as well to try) —and the badge,, showing the sun melt ing the wings off the earliest aviator, is both appropriate and a good design.