Really BIG patches - Jacket size and larger

[Salvage Sailor]

USS GUARDFISH (SSN-612) Thresher class in service 1966 to 1992

WESTPAC 1972

8" Jacket Cruise Patch - Sonar Gang Westpac 1972 - Japanese made

 

WESTPAC 1973

8" Jacket Cruise Patch - Sonar Gang Westpac 1973 - Japanese made

[Salvage Sailor]

USS SOUTH CAROLINA (CGN-37) Iranian Hostage Crisis 1980

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS GRAPPLE (ARS-7) Three war Diver class salvage ship in service 1943 to 1977

 

7 1/2" Jacket Patch

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS RAMSEY (FFG-2) Brooke class guided missile destroyer escort in service 1967 to 1988

She was redesignated from DEG-2 to FFG-2 in 1975

 

 

 

1976-1977 WESTPAC INDIAN OCEAN Cruise - 7" Round cruise jacket size

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

 

USS PROTEUS (AS-19) Submarine Tender

 

 

USS PROTEUS (AS-19) Submarine Tender, 12" Jacket patch - Forward Diesel Engine Room

 

[Salvage Sailor]

The Mighty 'M' USS MATACO (ATF-86)

Three war Navajo class in service 1943 to 1977

10" jacket patch

[Bearmon]

That is a nice patch!

[deadpeoplesjunk]

Deep sea diver school. I think this is Ace novelty

[Salvage Sailor]

USS CAPE COD (AD-43) Yellowstone class destroyer tender in service 1982 to 1995. Designed to service the Spruance class destroyers, Truxtun class cruisers and Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates during the Cold War.

Engineering Department - Power and Light, 8" x 5" patch

 

[hink441]

Big Brooklyn

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice coverall patch Hink,

 

Supervisor of Shipping, Brooklyn Navy Yard pre-1991

 

In 1991, the offices of SUPSHIP Brooklyn and SUPSHIP Boston joined SUPSHIP Bath as resident detachments and both were subsequently disestablished.

[Salvage Sailor]

Riverine Force Brown Water Navy Vung Tau tender, 9" jacket patch

 

 

USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY (LST-1167) Terrebonne Parish class in service 1954 to 1973. Three Navy Unit Commendations, two Meritorious Unit Commendations, and 14 campaign stars for Vietnam War service.

 

[firefighter]

 

Riverine Force Brown Water Navy Vung Tau tender, 9" jacket patch

USS WESTCHESTER COUNTY (LST-1167) Terrebonne Parish class in service 1954 to 1973. Three Navy Unit Commendations, two Meritorious Unit Commendations, and 14 campaign stars for Vietnam War service.

 

 

 

That is a GREAT looking patch

[Bearmon]

A 8.5 inch USS Kermit Roosevelt ARG 16 patch neat graphics.

 

 

[hink441]

Really nice 11" diameter Tractor King patch. Used but still in good shape.

 

I believe this one is from the USS Enterprise CVN-65 westpac cruise.

 

This is a pretty unique patch. The tractor King is a young Petty Officer (usually E-5) who is in charge of all the tow tractors on the flight deck. He wears a yellow jersey and blue float coat and blue helmet.

 

 

 

Here is a picture of a group of four tractors on the flight deck. If you notice the "Tractor King" is the driver of the second tractor from the left. Ready to go during recovery of aircraft.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS DOYLE (FFG-39) O.H. Perry class long hull in service 1983 to 2011 - Valiant Mariner

 

 

 

8" Combat Systems - OS, EW, STG, TM, ET, DS, GM, FC, IC Cold War rate patch

 

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

PATRON 60 (VP-60) COBRAS USNR, NAS Glenview, NY

7" jacket patch, ORION shaking itself apart

 

[Salvage Sailor]

The "Connie" Kodiak, Alaska - We Lead the Way North In Alaska (1966-1983)

1970's 7" fully embroidered jacket patch

USCGC CONFIDENCE (WMEC-619) Reliance class medium endurance cutter, commissioned in 1966

Still in service in the Caribbean Sea

 

Construction of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Confidence began at the United States Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, in 1965 and was completed in 1966. Fifth of 16 vessels in the class, Confidence was designed for search and rescue, law enforcement, and alien migrant interdiction operations (AMIO). Originally assigned to the Seventeenth Coast Guard District to support operations in Kodiak, Alaska, in the spring of 1983, following 17 years in Alaskan waters, Confidence was reassigned to the Thirteenth Coast Guard District and was homeported in Port Angeles, Washington

 

[Salvage Sailor]

On 9/7/2015 at 3:04 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

NAVCOMSTA (NCS) GUAM

Still has the old anglicized spellings pre-1975

10" high x 7" wide

 

Guam Island - Where America's Day Begins - Colorful 8 1/2" jacket patch

 

[hink441]

USS Enterprise CIWS Phalanx "Fox" patch.

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS Enterprise CIWS Phalanx "Fox" patch.

 

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Nice sea wiz FOX division patch (Fire Control, Sonar, and Anti-Submarine Armament)

[Salvage Sailor]

USS MISSISSINEWA (AO-144)

Flagship of Commander Service Force 6th Fleet, Naples, Italy (SERVRON 6)

GUN GANG - 10" custom made patch, Italian made

 

 

With Naples as her home port, the tanker cruised the Mediterranean servicing the 6th Fleet in normal and crisis operations until 1964. During the fall of 1956 and early winter 1957, she supported 6th Fleet ships as they stood by in case they were called on to intervene in the Suez Crisis and the tense period that followed. Again, in mid‑July 1958, she got underway on short notice to provide logistic support to ships of the 6th Fleet during an emergency in the Middle East, this time in Lebanon. Remaining off the Lebanese coast until September, she refueled over 200 ships as the U.S. 6th Fleet landed the U.S. Marine Corps and then stood by at the request of President Chamoun of Lebanon, in "Operation Blue Bat". From 1962 to 1964, Mississinewa's responsibilities were increased as she served as flagship of Commander Service Force, 6th Fleet.

 

GUN GANG - 10" custom made patch, Italian made. Note the Pirate Flag & the Island nation of Cyprus, scene of the "Cyprus Crisis"

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Really nice 11" diameter Tractor King patch. Used but still in good shape.

 

I believe this one is from the USS Enterprise CVN-65 westpac cruise.

 

This is a pretty unique patch. The tractor King is a young Petty Officer (usually E-5) who is in charge of all the tow tractors on the flight deck. He wears a yellow jersey and blue float coat and blue helmet.

 

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Hink,

 

That is one bitchen patch, very unique

[FlyNavy02]

U.S. Navy Shooting Team, 7.75 to 8.0 inches, unused, U.S.  made, merrowed edge, c. 1970s+

[PFA Ken]

On 3/26/2017 at 9:45 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

A different style of the 9" Asahi Beer cruise patch - no date, one less port, no ships' name

 

I have a jacket with the top patch, really great even better in person. The other patches on the jacket have no ship names either, do you have any idea why some cruise patches would not have ship names? My guess is that they are souvenirs, even if authentic.