870 Fighter Squadron

Badge

Description

Azure issuant from a base barry wavy of three Argent and Azure a winged demi lion Or armed and langued Gules.

Significance

The design shows a lion rising from the water by means of wings and assuming a fighting posture.

Motto

INTERCEDIMUS ET DELEMUS (To intercept and to destroy)

Colours

White and Blue

Battle honours

None

Lineage

• Authorized on the Royal Canadian Navy order of battle 24 January 1946 and incorporates the following units.

870 Squadron

• Authorized as '803 Squadron', 24 January 1946, on transfer from the 'Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm' (where it had been reformed 15 June 1945).^{Footnote 1}
• Redesignated '870 Fighter Squadron', 1 May 1951.^{Footnote 2}
• Disbanded 30 March 1954.^{Footnote 3}
• Reformed 1 November 1955.^{Footnote 4}
• Amalgamated with '871 Squadron', 16 March 1959, retaining the senior designation.^{Footnote 5}
• Disbanded 7 September 1962.^{Footnote 6}

871 Squadron

• Authorized as '883 Squadron', 24 January 1946, on transfer from the Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm (where it had been reformed 18 September 1945).^{Footnote 7}
• Disbanded 23 February 1946.^{Footnote 8}
• Reformed 15 May 1947.^{Footnote 9}
• Redesignated '871 Squadron', 1 May 1951.^{Footnote 10}
• Amalgamated with '870 Fighter Squadron', as above.

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