Badge Identification

[Jan19230]

Can anyone please identify this badge for me. It belongs to a friend's father who was in the Merchant Navy. I've had a looked at some websites but can't identify it.

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Look forward to hearing from you if you can help.

Many thanks.

Jan
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Sorry it's not a very good picture. I will try and enlarge it.

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[Chris Allman]

Looks like some kind of Engineers Badge. Possibly Commonwealth or Company Badge.

Chris.

[Lou Barron]

It could a Master of Arms Badge on the Passenger ships they use to have a Master of Arms .But then i could be wrong ???

[Doc Vernon]

Unconfirmed at this point ,but looks as with the Anchor ends it could possibly be either some Petty/Chief Officers Cap Badge!
I am still looking around though,and i havent come across this one before in my collection!
Cheers

[Red Lead Ted]

The [E} in the middle of the badge should give you the answer Regards Terry.

[Jan19230]

The owner of this badge worked on three ships for the Empire Line. He worked on several ships thereafter.

Going back through some of the family notes, in 1946 he was discharged from the vessel, Avonmouth, and his rating was that of EDH which I believe is Efficient Deck Hand? The document is very faded and difficult to read.

Would any of this help to find the badge?

Jan
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[Gulliver]

Hallo Jan,just a few notes for for you to consider re AVONMOUTH. Your phraseology doesn't make it clear that you know whether Avonmouth refers to the name of the ship or the port of Avonmouth.
There are no merchant ships with the name AVONMOUTH recorded in Miramar Shipping Index.
There is one fishing trawler which was extant from 1890-1925,and one tug built in 1938,but had changed her name to Kingsgarth just a year later.
So both are outside your timeline anyway.

I would assume then that the seafarer was discharged in the port of Avonmouth.Sorry if that sounds rather obvious to you ,but you'd be surprised how some non-seafarers interpret details from their family notes and which have become distorted over the years !


There is no EMPIRE LINE as such.
Empire ships were a series of merchant ships in the service of the British Government - their names all prefixed with EMPIRE------.and there were literally many hundreds of them.Most were used during WW II by the Ministry of War Transport which owned them but contracted them out to various shipping companies.

EDH is indeed Efficient Deck Hand in the Merchant Navy.
Sorry I can't help you with the badge,but feel the lads on here will continue to give it their best shot.
Best Regards
Gulliver

[happy daze john in oz]

It could a Master of Arms Badge on the Passenger ships they use to have a Master of Arms .But then i could be wrong ???

Think you could be close on this one Lou.

[Red Lead Ted]

You have got us all at it with this one take a look at the one i found some simularities but the { E } Inserted has me baffled Regards Terry.

[Jan19230]

Posted this on the Forces section on Rootschat as well, and they came up with a Queens Award. So Googled that and it seems it could be a Queens Award for Export Achievement.

Would they give those out in the Merchant Navy?

Many thanks for all your help.

Jan
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