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Show BADGES AFFIXED TO BRITISH MEN 0' WAR I LONDON, net. H Since the days: I of elaborately carved figureheads.! now seen only In naval museums, no British warships has carried an offi- clal badge, but now an Admiralty committee, with an" heraldic. adviser" has revised the ancient insignia In another an-other form. Each British man 'o war has BOW been granted a duly authorised badge to be fixed in wood or brass on thei I quarterdeck and on either bow of tin vessel pictorially, or, when that was I impossible, to embody some device con-j ! nocted with its history. The venturous sports a badge rep-resentlng rep-resentlng two dice. Sportive a goat; Tactician n chess knight; Tormentor, I inconstant a butterfly; Sesame. .-, i.... I BU rllng the pound mark and Watchful I an e e Major "harles Foulkes of the royal ; marines, acts as heraldic adviser |