The boat badge of HMS 'Diomede' 1919. Official design approved in 1922. The design depicts on a green field, a white horse rampant with gold hooves. The badge is a pentagonal shape with a gold rope twist border representing a cruiser. It is made of cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. 'DIOMEDE' is inscribed on the reverse. During the eighth of Hercules labours he fed Diomede to his own man eating horses, thereby taming them. HMS 'Diomede' was a Danae Class cruiser built at Barrow and completed at Portsmouth. Between the wars, she provided humanitarian assistance to the town of Napier, New Zealand following the Hawkes Bay earthquake. During the Second World War she served as part of the 7th and 8th cruiser squadron. She was retired from active service in 1942 and converted to a training ship. She was broken up in 1946.