Lot 2259

Description

Naval badges, includes WWI sweetheart brooch from Boulogne in France, features a silver anchor with the word, B(O missing)UL(O missing)GN in gold letters along shank, inside the left arm of the anchor is depicted the Virgin Mary with child in a boat with two other mothers, this image being tribute of a patron saint to sailors, pin-back; Sea Cadet Corps lapel badge in gilt and enamel, button back; Royal Australian Navy Reserves lapel badge (KC), by Bertram Bros, Melb(ourne), lug-back, reverse numbered 4438; R.A.N.A.T.E. (RAN Apprentice Training Establishment) Instructor, in gilt and enamel featuring the crest of HMAS Nirimba, with tie-bar style suspension. Very fine - good very fine. (4)

In September 1955 preparations began to recommission HMAS Nirimba as the RAN Apprentice Training Establishment (RANATE). On 1 April 1956 Nirimba was 'paid off' and recommissioned the next day as the RANATE with the first intake of naval apprentices arriving in July 1956 and the last in January 1992. It was decommissioned on 25 February 1994.