The boat badge of HMS 'Sheffield' 1936. The official design, the pattern approved in February 1935. It is made of silver-coloured plated brass, otherwise unpainted. The design shows eight interlaced arrows derived from the arms of the city and is a pentagonal shape representing a cruiser. There are five bolt holes on the reverse for attachment. 'SHEFFIELD' is impressed on the reverse. 'Sheffield' was a Town Class light cruiser built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow. She was launched in 1936. During the Second World War she initially took part in the Norwegian campaign. She then served in the Mediterranean based at Gibraltar. In May 1941, she took part in the operation to sink the German battleship 'Bismarck' and in the latter attack on 'Scharnhorst' on 26 December 1943. She was deployed protecting Arctc convoys and supported allied landings in North Africa. Towards the end of the war she underwent a lengthy refit and continued in service during the post-war period, standing in for HMS 'Ajax' in the film 'Battle of the River Plate'. She was finally broken up at Faslane in 1967.