HMCS Discovery
The official lineage of HMCS Discovery extant commissioned ship.
Badge
Description
Azure a shake-fork Argent supporting in the middle chief a bezant.
Significance
Named for Captain George Vancouver's ship. The devices used in this badge are "armes parlantes," or speaking arms, where pictures of things are employed to illustrate the different syllables of the word.
The shake-fork looks like the letter Y, and the bezant is a disc of gold. In this case, in the design we find a rebus on the word DISC-OVER-Y.
Motto
STEADFAST AND VIGILANT
Colours
Blue and White
Battle Honours
Pre-The First World War
PORTLAND, 1653; COPENHAGEN, 1801.
Perpetuates, by right of continuous unbroken service from the Royal Canadian Navy, eleven warships of the Royal Navy which previously carried this name. This perpetuation cannot be passed on to a new construction.
Lineage
First of Name
- Shore establishment.
- Naval Reserve Division, Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Commissioned as a tender to HMCS Givenchy 1 November 1941.Footnote 1
- Recommissioned as an independent shore establishment 1 September 1942.Footnote 2
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