The boat badge of HMS 'Shropshire' 1928. The official design, the pattern submitted in June 1926. On a field blue, a leopard's head gold, part of the arms of the County of Shropshire granted in 1896. 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. 'SHROPSHIRE' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Shropshire' was a heavy cruiser of the County Class. She was built by William Beardmore & Co, Dalmuir and was launched in 1928. During the Spanish Civil War, she helped to evacuate refugees. At the start of the Second World War, she was sent from the Mediterranean to the South Atlantic. From 1940 she was redeployed in the Indian Ocean where she took part in the campaign against Italian Somaliland and was used for convoy protection duties. In 1943 she was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy, but kept her old name. She was actively engaged in the Pacific war against Japan. She returned to the United Kingdom to be broken up by Dalmuir in 1955.