ADMIRALTY OFFICE.

ADMIRALTY OFFICE. Has no arms. The seal of the Office is an anchor in pale with a cable passing from the ring and environing the stock and fluke. Legend — " Sigil. offi. admiral Magna Britan."

The foregoing device, painted gold on a blue field, has often been supposed to be the arms of the Admiralty. The flag of the Admiralty or the Lord High Admiral is red with an anchor fesseways, the beam to the hoist and with a cable passing through the ring and environing the stock and fluke.

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