The boat badge of HMS 'Whitehall' 1919. The official design, approved in September 1919. On a red field, a winged heraldic seahorse holding the Admiralty foul anchor badge. The seahorse should be silver, but is in fact painted 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. 'WHITEHALL' is inscribed on the reverse. HMS 'Whitehall' was a W-class Fleet Destroyer built by Swan Hunter at Wallsend. She was launched in 1919 but not completed until 1924. In 1939 she was involved in North Sea convoy defence based at Rosyth. At the end of the year, she was deployed as a convoy escort in the Western approaches. In 1940 she was transferred to Dover and took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, landing 2762 troops in total. She returned to Atlantic convoy duties until 1942 when she protected convoys carrying arcraft to Malta. She was refitted at Sheerness in May that year and converted to a Long Range Escort and in 1943 returned to Atlantic convoy defence. On 30 January 1944 with HMS 'Meteor' she sunk U-314. From March 1944 she escorted Russian convoys and continued to do so until the end of the war although she was also involved in D-Day operations. The vessel was broken up in 1945.