Coat of arms of Båstad
Båstad’s arms show a red three-masted merchant ship on silver, with a natural-coloured Swedish flag atop the mizzen mast.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I fält av silver ett tremastat rött skepp försett med en blå fana belagd med ett kors av guld.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 10 January 1941: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms’ design
The municipality’s blazon specifies square sails on the forward masts and a lateen sail on the mizzen mast, topped by a natural-coloured Swedish flag.
Source: Båstads kommun: Grafisk profil
Background and the source’s interpretation
The manual says the arms belonged to Båstad market town from 1941 to 1970 and were registered as municipal arms in 1974. It does not provide a historical interpretation of the ship.
Source: Båstads kommun: Grafisk profil
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- field
- Or
- Argent
- Gules
- Azure
- ship
- flag
- cross
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
