The boat badge of HMS 'Coventry' 1917. An official pattern approved in December 1919. On a field per pale red and green, an elephant bearing a castle all gold. The design is based on the city arms, granted in 1345. 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. 'COVENTRY' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Coventry' was a Ceres-class cruiser built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson. During the First World War she served in the Baltic while part of the Harwich force. During the 1920s, she was the flagship of Rear Admiral Andrew Cunningham while he commanded the Atlantic fleet. By the Second World War she had been converted to an anti-aircraft cruiser. After a spell in the home fleet during the early part of the war, she was redeployed to the Mediterranean. She was present at Spartivento 27 November 1940 and after an air attack caught fire and was scuttled off Tobruk on 14 September 1942.