Question about Naval badges

Ships
#1

Guy’s not quite sure how to title this.

While looking at basing my new ship builds I came up with an idea which will work for all my Royal Navy and even Merchant Marine ships in that I found I can get the ships badge as a lapel pin.
Example

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I can also add a Royal Navy ‘Lest we forget’ for any ships lost in combat as my mark of respect to those crews.
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Now my question is, do other nations US, German, Japan, Oz, Dutch etc have anything similar, both the ship badge and the remembrance / memorial pin?

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#2

http://www.resinshipyard.com/pages/rcn_mem.html

#3

Thanks Don, that covers any Canadian ships.

#4

Don’t thank me yet. After exploring the website a little I’m not 100% sure they’re actually still in business.

#5

Hi Don, after your post I also had another look round their site and the last update appears to be from 2015. Shame if they are no more as they look to have some interesting items.

#6

Each USN ship has a crest. More readily available as an embroidered patch but if you search a particular ship you’ll probably find an enameled crest plaque or lapel pin as well.

#7

The vast majority of the unit/ship badges I have seen were done as embroidered patches intended to be worn on jackets. Pieces of History has a number of ship badges as pins, mostly carriers. And there are a number of vendors selling vinyl self-adhesive unit or ship badges, but like the embroidered patches they are generally around four inches in height – considerably bigger than the pins you show, judging from the butterfly clutch you show.

#8

Check out Challenge coins

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