Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, by Schwerin visually-hidden 4th Class Star - Three-piece

4th Class Star - Three-piece construction

with a slotted bed of identical construction

and between 1937 and 1939

1918 - August 13

the Battles of the Lys

Germany, Kriegsmarine. An S-Boat War Badge, Second Pattern, by Schwerin visually-hidden 4th Class Star - Three-piece(Schnellboot Kriegsabzeichen, 2. Form). Constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Kriegsmarine eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central S Boat cutting through waves, with its bow extending beyond the edge of the wreath, the reverse with a barrel hinge and tapering horizontal pinback meeting a flat wire catch, topped by a stabilizer,