Cap Badge, United Kingdom, General Post Office Cable Ship, Officer
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Cap Badge, United Kingdom, General Post Office Cable Ship, Officer
Description
Ca. 1930s-1940s. Cap badge worn by an officer aboard a United Kingdom cable ship operated by the General Post Office.
The badge is woven and embroidered with a central device depicting an hourglass in the hand of Old Father Time being shattered by an electrical discharge. The entire badge is surmounted by the Tudor Crown (also known as the King's Crown); which was a design element for cap badges between 1902 and 1953. The badge itself follows the pattern for British government cap badges - Royal Navy-style laurels flanking a central device and topped with the sovereign's crown.
Cable ships were tasked with laying hundreds of miles of submarine cable which connected the world - first for telegraph and later telephone. Ships of the General Post Office had the designation "Her (His) Majesty's Telegraph Ship" (HMTS) through the 1960s.
The badge is woven and embroidered with a central device depicting an hourglass in the hand of Old Father Time being shattered by an electrical discharge. The entire badge is surmounted by the Tudor Crown (also known as the King's Crown); which was a design element for cap badges between 1902 and 1953. The badge itself follows the pattern for British government cap badges - Royal Navy-style laurels flanking a central device and topped with the sovereign's crown.
Cable ships were tasked with laying hundreds of miles of submarine cable which connected the world - first for telegraph and later telephone. Ships of the General Post Office had the designation "Her (His) Majesty's Telegraph Ship" (HMTS) through the 1960s.
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“Cap Badge, United Kingdom, General Post Office Cable Ship, Officer,” dittybag, accessed December 22, 2024, http://dittybag.ianewatts.org/collection/items/show/135.
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