Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #126 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG Station Destin Florida - Guardians of the Emerald Coast, 1990's Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #127 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG Station Pensacola, Florida 1990's Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #128 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG Space Shuttle Team Port Canaveral Florida NIce set circa 1990 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #129 Posted March 2, 2016 Current gluebacks, 8th District Stations Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #130 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG 9th District Charleviox, Michigan Station Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #131 Posted March 2, 2016 California, the USCG 11th District Stations Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #132 Posted March 2, 2016 Noyo River, Fort Bragg Station 1994 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #133 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG San Francisco Station Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #134 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG Station Lake Tahoe - Chasing the Dragon Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #135 Posted March 2, 2016 USCG 13TH District Stations Oregon and Washington Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #136 Posted March 2, 2016 Wishful thinking or an error patch? The patch on the left is the 13th District Station at Chetco River. Gateway to the 14th District? Brah, it's a long way to Hawaii..... Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 2, 2016 Share #137 Posted March 2, 2016 ....and an obscure one. USCG SAR Station Yankeetown, Florida - The Sand Gnat Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #138 Posted March 6, 2016 Hamilton Class - The first jet powered High Endurance Cutters The 12 Hamilton class High Endurance Cutters were commissioned from 1967 to 1972. The first Hamilton was a Treasury class WHEC torpedoed and sunk by U-132 in 1942. Her namesake and class leader USCGC HAMILTON was in service from 1967 to 2011. The Hamilton's were unique in that they were the first U.S. military vessels to employ the now common shipboard application of aircraft gas turbine jet engines with the use of controllable pitch propellers. USCGC HAMILTON (WHEC-715) Her old and new crests Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #139 Posted March 6, 2016 1970's Engineering Department- riding the jet turbines - USCGC MELLON (WHEC-717) when she was homeported in Honolulu at Sand Island USCGC MELLON (WHEC-717) at her current homeport, Seattle Washington Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #140 Posted March 6, 2016 USCGC CHASE (WHEC-718) When she was homeported at Boston The patch on the lower left is 1970's and the right is 1980's You can tell the difference not only by the shades of blue - the older version has the hull number 718 on the side of the jet turbine USCGC CHASE (WHEC-718) when she left Boston she was assigned to San Pedro, CA (1991) which is the first patch and welcome. She then shifted ports in 1997 to San Diego, CA which is the second patch and welcome. And this is her current patch as San Diego Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #141 Posted March 6, 2016 USCGC BOUTWELL (WHEC-719) In service 1968 to 2016, being decommissioned and transferred to the Philippine navy. A fully embroidered 1970's patch and welcome and a 2001 patch and welcome - Dope Patrol, to South America again, and again, and again,.... Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #142 Posted March 6, 2016 If another member has a USCGC SHERMAN (WHEC-720) patch please post it for us - these are the old and new welcomes Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 6, 2016 Share #143 Posted March 6, 2016 USCGC GALLATIN (WHEC-721) and USCGC MORGENTHAU (WHEC-722) Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 7, 2016 Share #144 Posted March 7, 2016 USCGC MUNRO (WHEC-724) commissioned in 1971 - a true wanderer with multiple homeports and her share of Persian Gulf duty USCGC MUNRO (WHEC-724) Seattle, California 1970's Reverse From 1980 to 1989 USCGC MUNRO (WHEC-724) was homeported at Sand Island, Honolulu Reverse After Honlulu, she was assigned to Alameda for the 1990's and then to Alaska in 2007. I believe this is her Alameda patch but it may be more recent. Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 7, 2016 Share #145 Posted March 7, 2016 USCGC JARVIS (WHEC-725) 70's 80's 90's Sand Island, Honolulu, Hawaii (including a JARVIC error patch) Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 7, 2016 Share #146 Posted March 7, 2016 USCGC MIDGETT (WHEC-726) San Francisco Bay (misspelled) 1970's when assigned to Alameda The last of the 12 Hamilton (Treasury/Hero) class cutters commissioned Link to comment
firefighter Posted March 7, 2016 Share #147 Posted March 7, 2016 Again, great stuff. I have a large USCGC MORGENTHAU (WHEC-722) too. I also have a Vietnam cruise book for the USCGC Pontchartrain (WHEC-70). Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 8, 2016 Share #148 Posted March 8, 2016 This is USCGC PONTCHARTRAIN (WPG-70) prior to her Vietnam tour and reclassification as WHEC-70 Link to comment
MMA10mm Posted April 1, 2016 Share #149 Posted April 1, 2016 Here's an interesting one. President Trumans Pirate Radio Station USCGC COURIER (WTR-410), commissioned as WAGR-410 she was the only Voice of America mobile radio station from 17 July 1952 to 13 August 1964 also earning the distinction of being the longest overseas deployment. Redesignated in 1965 as WTR-410, this patch reflects her reassignment to Reserve Training at Yorktown, VA. President Trumans' Pirate Radio Station http://www.uscg.mil/tcyorktown/info/History/Cutters/courier.asp Awesome patch! She was an obscure vessel. My dad did a couple summer cruises on her when she was a reserve training cutter out of Yorktown in late 60s. By the time he was on TAD there in the 80s, there were zero cutters there, only a couple 41s. Sad (for me...). Link to comment
BTK@Home Posted April 7, 2016 Share #150 Posted April 7, 2016 Well, to round out this discussion begun waaaaaaay back in December 2013, here is a photo of USCGC Taney taken in Hong Kong Harbor after just receiving a paint job by Hong Kong Sally's crew. We were station ship for about two weeks during our Vietnam "cruise". The patch is original still in unopened plastic envelope just as I received it. I served on Taney for about 3 years (from January 1969 to March 1972) with a short temporary assignment to USCGC Resolute about one year before discharge from active duty. Final transfer off Taney was on the day she sailed for repositioning to east coast. Link to comment
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