Awarded: August 1950
Blazon: On a Fountain a Drum Azure edged and detailed Or charged with an Astral Crown of the second.
Link: Drake’s drum used to sound warnings, is symbolic of the location and role of the unit – operations over the oceans.
Motto: Ever watchful
History: Formed Plymouth 5 February 1941. Renamed HQ Southern Maritime Region 28 November 1969.
Commissioned by ‘Leigh Light’ and dedicated to comrades forever denied their last landfall. “If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea…thy right hand shall hold me.” (Ps 139 vv 9&10)