The boat badge of HMS 'Wild Swan' 1919. The official design, approved in May 1919. On a blue field, a silver swan with a collar and broken cord, 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. 'WILD SWAN' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Wild Swan' was a W-class destroyer, built by Swan Hunter and Wigram Richardson at Wallsend on Tyne. She was launched in May 1919. She was refitted in 1939 and was supplied with ASDIC anti-submarine equipment. During 1940 she acted as a convoy escort in the Western Approaches. In May 1940 she was transferred to the 19th Destroyer Flotilla based at Dover. She took part in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk. In October the same year she joined the 7th escort group at Liverpool. Later in the same year she escorted convoys to Gibraltar and Freetown. She was lost on 17th June 1942 after being bombed by German aircraft south of Iceland and colliding with a Spanish trawler.