USN Contractor Patches

[Salvage Sailor]

Here's another catch-all topic for USN prime contractor patches

 

Quite often when leaving the yards after an overhaul or major upgrade to weapons and instrumentation systems, USN ships would have prime contractors aboard during sea trials. Their task would be limited to testing, tweaking and evaluating their proprietary systems to gain the appropriate sign offs for contract fulfillment.

 

Feel free to add on to this topic.

 

These are a few that I picked up when playing wargames with the SSN's at the Autec Andros Ranges in the early 1980's http://breakingdefense.com/2012/12/nfa-the-navys-best-kept-secret/

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Singer Librascope Division - a major USN contractor for submarine systems

 

 

Another Singer Librascope patch - this company morphed in the 1980's and is now part of Eaton Corp.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

SSBN Poseidon

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Found another one for the Gunners and Weps sailors

 

 

[rtepak6]

Great looking patches, SS. I was doing the same with USAF contractors. Really enjoy the diversity with these.

 

Dale

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice well made patch for the Cold War era Mk 60 CAPTOR program - enCAPsulated TORpedo anti-submarine naval mine

 

 

Contractors: Goodyear Aerospace and Bendix

Clients: NAVSEA (Naval Sea Systems Command) & NAVSWC (Naval Surface Weapons Center)

 

[Salvage Sailor]

ITT Arctic Services, Inc. DEWLINE (International Telephone and Telegraph) 1950's

 

 

Working under contract with the USN and USAF to outfit the distant early warning radar sites (DEWLINE) and the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL)

 

[Salvage Sailor]

BOEING MARINE SYSTEMS - USN PCH/PGH/PHM Contractor Patch & Commissioning Coin (USS ARIES)

 

 

 

Navy Awards Boeing $178 Million To Build Missile Firing Boats (Article circa 1981)

 

Boeing Marine Systems (BMS), Renton, Wash., has announced the signing of a $178-million U.S. Navy contract for production of five Patrol Hydrofoil Missileships (PHMs). Work will begin immediately on the scheduled five-year program. Boeing Marine Systems, a division of The Boeing Company, delivered the prototype ship Pegasus (PHM-1) to the Navy for commissioning in July, following successful test and evaluation of this compact weapons system over the last two years.

 

The Pentagon announced in August that Secretary of Defense Harold Brown had released $272.7 million in previously appropriated funds for the procurement of five more of these high-speed patrol craft. The production program will require a very gradual buildup to about 1,450 additional employees at BMS in Seattle at peak of production in early 1979. Initial work will focus on engineering and tool design.

 

During extensive testing by the Navy, Pegasus operated in a wide spectrum of sea conditions, demonstrating capabilities usually afforded only larger ships, while allowing the significantly lower costs and high maneuverability associated with smaller ships.

 

 

Boeing's commercial hydrofoil, Jetfoil, exhibited unique seakeeping ability earlier this year on a 7,500-nautical-mile demonstration tour of six northern European countries on the Baltic and North Seas. That tour included the record crossing of the North Sea from Stavanger, Norway, to Aberdeen, Scotland, a distance of 260 nautical miles, in 6 hours 11 minutes.

 

Both the commercial and military versions of the automatically controlled craft offer the great advantage of a smooth ride in rough water, ensuring passenger comfort and enabling efficient performance of assigned missions. Both PHM and Jetfoil operate on fully submerged foils.

 

Capable of speeds in excess of 40 knots, PHM is ideally suited for area surveillance in support of task force operations. Design flexibility in the 131-foot-long, 230-ton hydrofoil includes weight and space reserves to permit expansion of operational roles to antisubmarine (ASW) and antiair warfare (AAW). PHM can be easily adapted for minelaying tasks.

 

 

Requiring a crew of only 21, the PHM combines unique seakeeping ability with a compact but powerful weapons system. Pegasus is equipped with eight Harpoon missiles, a 76-mm dualpurpose gun and MK-94 firecontrol system. Variation in armament may include ASW, AAW, mine warfare, and use as a helicopter platform. Standard design permits multinational use.

 

PHM is also ideal for nonmilitary missions, such as fisheries law enforcement, protection of offshore resources, and search and rescue. BMS is presently conducting a study for the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom on a military hydrofoil concept to perform offshore protection missions as set forth in requirements by the Royal Navy.

 

Boeing Marine Systems, Renton WA http://shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/boeing.htm

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Boeing Marine Systems - PHM Pegasus Hydrofoil Program Test technician

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

NAVPRO LOCKHEED BURBANK - Naval Plant Representative Office overseeing the production of the P-3 Orion and other aircraft. This was usually a 4 year billet assigned to a Naval Aviator just prior to his retirement.

 

Nice image of the wings chained to the aircraft plant.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Allied Signal - Ocean Systems, Sylmar, California (ASW) which develops lightweight sonar and underwater antisubmarine warfare products.