Gavel that launched HMS Vansittart & Venus the Bulldog April 1919

Ornately Carved Wood and Silver Gavel That Launched HMS Vansittart & Venus the Bulldog in 1919. Interestingly the Silver inscription has a spelling mistake which was not noticed at the time.
HMS Vansittart was allocated to the 15th Destroyer Flotilla in the Western Approaches Command and deployed in the English Channel for convoy defence. Her first deployment was to escort troops of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from the Solent to Brest.
In October she was transferred to the 17th Destroyer Flotilla based at Plymouth for convoy defence in the South-West Approaches. She remained in this deployment through April when she was sent to Scapa Flow in response to the German invasion of Norway.
She was deployed in protecting military convoys until she was damaged at Narvik during an air attack on 10 May, during the Battles of Narvik. On 20 May she deployed on Operation Ordnance – the evacuation of Dutch ports including Rotterdam and the Hook of Holland. In June she was again deployed to the South-West approaches. On 1 July she responded to a distress signal from the torpedoed merchant ship SS Clearton. An hour after arriving on the scene she established a strong ASDIC return and made two runs dropping eleven depth charges set for 350 to 500 feet. After this attack she was unable to re-establish contact, and observed a large oil slick. She recovered the survivors of SS Clearton and remained on patrol until the next day, before returning to port. Post war analysis credited her with the sinking of U-102 on 1 July.
During her career she underwent one reconstruction, to serve as a long range escort. Such maintenance was completed in June 1943.