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 RCSCC NIOBE |
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RCSCC NIOBE
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| Blazon: | Gules, two arrows in saltire heads upwards Argent, barbed and flighted Or, debruised by a lozenge Argent, fimbriated Or, charged with fourteen larmes Azure. |
| Significance: | The badge is that of HMCS NIOBE, the Canadian naval liaison office in London, England, which inherited the name from one of the two original vessels of the Royal Canadian Navy. Niobe, wife of King Amphion of Thebes (as a woman represented heraldically by the lozenge) boasted of her fourteen children. The titaness Leto (who had only two children) decided to punish her boasting and sent her son and daughter Apollo and Artemis to slay Niobe's children with their bows (the two arrows). Niobe, grief-stricken, wept for her slain family (the fourteen teardrops) in the midst of their spilt blood (the red field). Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a rock on Mt. Siphylus where she supposedly still cries when the snow melts (the white in the lozenge). |
| Notes: | RCSCC Niobe, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia |
| Artist: | LCdr Steve Cowan, Area Cadet Instructor Cadre Officer (Sea), Vancouver Island. |