HMCS Griffon

Badge

Description

Argent a griffin segreant Azure armed Gules and seme-de-lis Or.

Significance

The obvious device for the badge of Griffon is a representation of this mythical monster. As it is named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's ship, the first to navigate in the upper lakes in 1679, the griffin is depicted with the colours and devices of Royal France, namely, a blue field powdered or sown with gold fleurde-lis.

Motto

PRIMA IN LACUBUS (First on the Lakes)

Colours

White and Blue

Battle Honours

None

Lineage

First of Name

• Shore establishment.
• Naval Reserve Division, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
• Commissioned as a tender to HMCS Naden 1 November 1941.^{Footnote 1}
• Recommissioned as an independent shore establishment 1 September 1942.^{Footnote 2}

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