The boat badge of HMS 'Capetown' 1919. It depicts on a blue field, an anchor proper (part of the arms of Capetown). 'The anchor is derived from the arms of Cape Town, South Africa granted in 1899. The badge is a pentagonal shape with a rope twist border representing a cruiser. This is the official pattern approved in September 1919. The badge is made of cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. CAPETOWN' is inscribed on the reverse. 'Capetown' was a C-class cruiser completed in 1922 and the only Royal Naval ship of this name. 'Capetown' spent much of the 1920s based in Bermuda and the 1930s on the China station. She spent the early part of the war as a convoy escourt in the Mediterranian and Indian Ocean. She was recommissioned as a control ship during the Normandy Landings and was broken up in 1946.