The boat badge of HMS 'Wyvern' 1919. The official design, submitted in March 1919. On a field green, a wyvern 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. 'WYVERN' is inscribed on the reverse but note that both HMS 'Wyvern' of 1863 and 1919 are often listed under the archaic form 'Wivern'. 'Wyvern' was a V/W class destroyer, launched in 1919. She served the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets between the wars. In 1939 she was put on convoy escort duties initially in the western approaches then in the North Sea. In 1940 she was back escorting Atlantic convoys. At the end of 1941 she went out to Gibraltar and the following year was based at Freetown. During 1943, serving in the Western Mediterranean, she was damaged by a mine in the approaches to Gibraltar. By 1944 she was back on East coast convoy protection. She survived the war and was scrapped in 1948.