The boat badge of HMS 'Voyager' 1918. The official design, approved in November 1919. On a field blue, a red ship upon three wavelets white. 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. 'VOYAGER' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Voyager' was a W-class destroyer, built by Alexander Stephens & Sons. She was launched in May 1918. In 1933, she was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy. In 1938, she was recommissioned and at the begining of the Second World War was sent to the Mediterranean as a convoy escort based on Alexandria. During 1940, she escorted convoys to Malta and assisted in the evacuation of allied forces from Greece. At the end of 1941 she was refitted in Sydney. While supporting a guerilla campaign in Japanese occupied Timor, she was stranded while landing troops on 24 September 1942 and was damaged beyond repair by Japanese bombers.