HMCS Griffon
The official lineage of HMCS Griffon extant commissioned ship.
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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