The boat badge of HMS 'Malcolm' 1919. The official design, approved in September 1919. On a red field, a silver tower on a green mound. The design derives from the arms of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm (1768-1838). 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. 'MALCOLM' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Malcolm' was a Scott-class Flotilla Leader destroyer built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. She was launched in 1919. At the start of the Second World War, she was deployed in convoy escort and patrol in the Channel and South Western approaches. In 1940 she helped evacuate allied troops from Dunkirk. The rest of the year was spent on anti-invasion and convoy escort duties in the North Sea. At the end of the year she was engaged on Atlantic convoy defence. In 1942 she was redeployed in Malta relief operations based on Gibraltar and in operation Torch (allied landings in North Africa). In 1943, she returned to escorting Atlantic convoys. She was broken up in 1945.
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London