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Awarded:<\/strong> August 1950<\/p>\n Blazon:<\/strong> On a Fountain a Drum Azure edged and detailed Or charged with an Astral Crown of the second.<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> Drake\u2019s drum used to sound warnings, is symbolic of the location and role of the unit – operations over the oceans.<\/p>\n Motto: <\/strong>Ever watchful<\/p>\n History:<\/strong> Formed Plymouth 5 February 1941. Renamed HQ Southern Maritime Region 28 November 1969.<\/p>\n Commissioned by \u2018Leigh Light\u2019 and dedicated to comrades forever denied their last landfall. \u201cIf I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea…thy right hand shall hold me.\u201d (Ps 139 vv 9&10)<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Awarded: August 1950 Blazon: On a Fountain a Drum Azure edged and detailed Or charged with an Astral Crown of the second. Link: Drake\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rafht.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}