Mystery Tanker Badge

[Andy McCluskey]

Hi,
Can anyone help me identify this badge. Who wore it and the approximate era it was worn.

Many thanks,
Andy

[Doc Vernon]

Hard one this, where did you get the Pic from ??
Cheers

[Andy McCluskey]

Hi,
I own this badge. It came with a lot of Royal Navy badges, but I don't believe it has anything to do with the R.N. For some reason my photograph has loaded the wrong way up.

[j.sabourn]

It would be too easy to say it was the badge of Crown Tankers if there ever was such a company. A better one would be there is a Crown beer out here , and to think of the tanker being full of it., maybe an excuse why it didn’t land rightway up. Will be interesting to see it’s true origin . Will maybe turn out something that we have all overlooked . Cheers JS

[Lewis McColl]

Looking at the swatch!! is that the right word for the cloth it is on ? Looks as if it would be stitched on to a sleeve or a uniform jacket. I have looked on a site and there are similar badges but nearly all have a military back ground.

[Doc Vernon]

Yes Lewis similar to the badges we had in the RAF , cloth so one could sew it on to the Sleeve or Jacket! Could well be Military !
Cheers

[j.sabourn]

The RASC ( Royal Army’s Service Corps ) had a fleet of ships in the late 50s and they used to employ certificated merchant seamen, had ships mainly down the Meddy ferrying stores to the likes of Cyprus . The ships were mainly Landing craft but it was a law of supply and demand I suppose. It just might be their flag. JS.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Definitely the wrong material for a cap badge, as the material looks too flexible, the cap badge support material was usually black and semi braided as it had to support a lot of weight when you think how substantial a cap badge was. My first thought had been a blazer pocket, but tend to agree that it is more likely a sleeve adornment.

It is not necessarily a tanker, it could be a bulk carrier or LCT

[j.sabourn]

Further to #7 . Anyone who got their 2nd. Mates cert after 1955 and before 1960 may be aware that they used to recruit for such. They gave you a temporary army commission as a second Lieutenant , so assume that was the salary range. Some of us pondered it at the time, but it was probably not too good money wise , and also seatime might not have been acceptable for future certification. Seatime was a big thing in our days if you didn’t have you couldn’t get. Not like today where they all seem to be licensed before going or doing anything. I can remember a couple who did take the job but can’t remember past that. In my early years at sea as soon as you got your masters cert. it was there for life ,barring misdeameanours or accidents, then they brought in having to have 2 years seatime in every 5 years or had to go on a course which they called upgrading of nautical knowledge. This is the only reason I kept my own discharge.book going for reference of seatime , it was unnecessary otherwise. Although the older hands hold it in some reverence as of old, today it doesn’t mean too much. Mainly as a symbol of the past .JS

[Tony Taylor]

The RASC ( Royal Army’s Service Corps ) had a fleet of ships in the late 50s and they used to employ certificated merchant seamen, had ships mainly down the Meddy ferrying stores to the likes of Cyprus . The ships were mainly Landing craft but it was a law of supply and demand I suppose. It just might be their flag. JS.

There was one tied up for years in Helensburgh on the Clyde in the early 60s (I used to stay there with relatives in summer hols).