The boat badge of HMS 'Devonshire' 1927. An official pattern approved in 1926. On a field silver, a lion rampant, red, crowned gold. Part of the arms of Devon County Council. 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. HMS 'Devonshire' was a county class heavy cruiser. A bad gunnery accident killed seventeen of her crew in 1929. During the Second World War, she evacuated the Norwegian Royal family in 1940 and returned Haakon VII to his liberated country in 1945. 'Devonshire' was deployed against Vichy French territories in equatorial Africa, she then served with the Home Fleet and in the Indian Ocean. From 1947 to 1953, she was the Royal Navy's cadet training ship. She was scrapped in 1954.