The boat badge of HMS 'Versatile' 1917. the official design approved in October 1920. On a black field, a weather vane gold. The badge is shield-shaped with a gold rope twist border representing an destroyer. It is made of cast brass, painted and drilled at the corners. 'VERSATILE' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Versatile' was a V/W class destroyer launched in 1917. In the interwar years she served with the Atlantic Fleet. During the early stages of the Second World War she served on convoy escort duties in the Western Approaches. In 1940 she assisted in the evacuation of military personnel from the Hook of Holland. In 1941 she was redeployed to the North Sea. In 1943 she was converted to a long range escort. During D-Day she escorted military convoys across the Channel. She was broken up in 1949.