Ship's badges were only officially approved from 1919, but before then, many ships had unofficial badges, designed by the officers & crew.  Your tompion is almost certainly one of these.  The design would seem to fit the name, so it may well be correct.  I am not aware of any comprehensive list or descriptions of these many unofficial, unapproved designs.

No badge has ever been granted officially, as there have been no sea-going ships of the name since 1914.  The name was later used by the RNR at Dundee, but they never had a Cressy badge, but used an RNR one.

I would think that it would belong to the Cressy of 1899, lost in 1914.

Greetings,
 I am trying to get some information on this Tompion purportedly from HMS Cressy.  It's been in my family for about 50 years and the information with it claimed it was from the Cressy but with no indication of which Cressy.
 I have tried diligently to find the ships badge for HMS Cressy with no luck and am hoping one of you would be kind enough to clarify or possibly point me in the right direction.
  Thanks in advance for your input. best, Art

My father, Norman Lock (1924 - 2021) was in the British Royal Navy in WW2 (1942 - 1946). He had kept some WW2 group photos. There is nothing on the back of them to say exactly where and when they were taken. But the service records of ships served on, for Norman, indicates the photos are likely to be in regard to either, HMCS Chilliwack between October 1942 and June 1943 or HMS Findhorn between July 1943 and 1946. The other photo is of Norman in East Africa.

Philip L

My father, Norman Lock (1924 - 2021), stayed with Douglas Miller (Canadian Navy) and his family (Wife and 3 small children in another photo that Norman kept) at Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada during WW2. Norman, British Royal Navy (1942 - 1946) is on your right as you look at photo. Douglas Miller is on your left as you look at the photo. Norman served on HMCS Chilliwack at one stage during WW2. There is a Canadian Telegram dated 10th May 1943 from the Navy, Lieutenant CM Temple, to the care of Mrs. Hugh Miller (Mother of Douglas Miller) granting Norman a leave extension.

Philip L

A BASEGRAM to my father, Norman Lock (Radar operator) on HMS Findhorn, during WW2, from his sister, Olive Lock (Married name is Rea). Olive lived in Birmingham England during WW2.


Philip L

I have found that there was a date on the back of the New York, photo. FEB 28, 1946. And $1. Planetary Photo, 311 West 34th street, New York, N.Y.

Philip L

Photo of my father, Norman Lock, who is on your right as you look at photo. Norman is with an unidentified Royal navy sailor. It is in 1946, close to end of WW2 or end of WW2. The location is Jack Dempsey's Broadway Bar, near Forty-ninth Street, New York, USA. Norman went back to the UK on the Queen Mary. Probably because HMS Findhorn was returned to the USA under a loan agreement with USA government.

Some of the places where Norman travelled to with the Royal Navy in WW2 that he put on the back of his King Neptune Certificate.  A Copy is under the Lock family tree.
1942
Isle of Man, Belfast, Londonderry and Saint John
1943
Londonderry.
Canada. Halifax and Saint John.
Bermuda Isles.
America. Norfolk, Washington and Richmond.
Liverpool and Cardiff.
1944
Port Said (Egypt), Suez Canal. Colombo and Port Louis.
South Africa. Cape town.
1945
Australia. Dawin and Brisbane.
China. Hong Kong and Macau (Portuguese).
1946
America. New York.

Philip L

My father, Norman Lock (February 1924 - November 2021) was in the Portsmouth Division of Royal Navy in WW2 from 1942 to 1946. Official No. JX 359656. There is a long Navy group photo in his collection. It was to long for me to scan as one photo when I put it under the Lock family tree on the ancestry site, I have it as Group photo-A and B. I may get it scanned by a professional photographer shop one day. I can only show a small section here due to the size restrictions on this site. There seems be over 100 Navy personnel, sailors and officers, in the whole photo. Logically the whole photo may have been taken at Portsmouth, England because that was Norman's home port, but I do not know where the photo was taken. Some clues may be in the whole photo with the whole background. Norman has the yellow marker arrow just above his head in this small section of photo.

Thanks
Philip L

Some of my father's WW2 photos in regard to of HMS Findhorn and HMCS Chilliwack.

Thanks
Philip L

I have a photo of my father, Norman Lock and unidentified sailor In Port Said Egypt. Norman is on your left as you look at photo. And a Boxing match pamphlet from March 1944. Have you any Egypt WW2 navy photos.

Thanks
Philip L