Bearmon Posted February 23, 2019 Share #1 Posted February 23, 2019 I picked this one up due to the odd designator EDD this stands for Experimental Test Ship I cannot find the Saufley as officially having this designator. The Witek, Foster, Timmerman, Sarsfiled and Krauss I found all had the EDD but not the Saufley The Saufley was designated as an EDDE but I don't think this patch is an error patch. "One Fleet Escort destroyer USS Saufley (DDE-465) was reclassified as an Experimental Escort Destroyer (EDDE) on 1 January 1951 and then used as a test bed during the 1950s for sonar and ASW experiments. She was reclassified as a general purpose destroyer (DD-465) on 1 July 1962." (USN Ship Designations By Guy Derdall and Tony DiGiulian Updated 17 September 2010) Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V42 Posted February 28, 2019 Share #2 Posted February 28, 2019 No matter what, it's still a nice patch and warrants further research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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