"It's a Gemsco" USN & USCG Patch Manufacturers

[Salvage Sailor]

White version of the USCG AUXILIARY Gemsco patch

Blue version is in post #54

[ADAM.12TN]

This is one I have that I don't see in your collection.

[hink441]

Awesome collection of patches! Here are my two Gemsco carded patches. The Ray and the Runner submarines. Please disregard the other two non Gemsco patches, this is an older photo.

 

Chris

 

[Salvage Sailor]

USS JOHN S. MCCAIN (DDG-36)

 

Mitscher class Destroyer Leader (DL-3) commissioned in 1953, motto "Crusader For Peace" - Named for the naval patriarch Admiral John Sidney "Slew" McCain USNA 1906, who died in service 1945.

Decommissioned in 1966 and converted to a Guided Missile Destroyer. Recommissioned as DDG-36 in 1969 when this Gemsco patch was made with the new Latin motto, "Praestate", i.e. "Excel"

[Salvage Sailor]

SEABEES circa late 1960's

[Salvage Sailor]

Destroyer Tender USS YOSEMITE (AD-19) In service 50 years, 1944-1994

Gemsco Patch circa late 50's early 60's

[Salvage Sailor]

How to identify a USS YOSEMITE Gemsco?

 

The four dots between the name and the hull number

[Wharfmaster]

My father served aboard Yorktown during the 60s and gave me this patch when he returned home. It hung on the wall of my room for a long time when I was a kid.

 

 

Wharf

[Salvage Sailor]

United States Navy Cargo Handling and Port Group

Blue card post 1966

[Salvage Sailor]

1966 blue card USS RANGER (CVA-61) alongside the earlier gold card version

 

The difference - The blue card version is slightly smaller and has a thicker and darker blue thread used in the lettering and borders

[Salvage Sailor]

U.S. NAVY MOTION PICTURE SERVICE - Serving the Fleet - Morale - 1963 Gemsco red card no zip code

They supplied the movie reels we would requisition at bases and stations to play on the mess decks aboard ship.

We would often swap movies via whaleboat or landing craft at sea with other ships when deployed.

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Reserve Patrol Squadron 831 (VR-831) NAS Floyd Bennet Field, NY

Gemsco red border no zip code circa 1963

[10esee]

[Salvage Sailor]

Nice CONE patch 10esee

 

The Icebreaker USS GLACIER (AGB-4) OPERATION DEEPFREEZE 1958

 

 

In the same year, she was also deployed to the Arctic to resupply the North Pole radar stations north of Greenland in Operation Sunec, giving her deployments in both polar regions in 1958

 

 

I believe this is also a Gemsco patch although it's not on the card

 

USS GLACIER (AGB-4) OPERATION SUNEC

Thule, Greenland 1958

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Three-war veteran Essex class carrier USS RANDOLPH (CVS-15) in service 1944-1969

She was designated as an anti-submarine carrier in 1959 - Red border Gemsco card circa 1963 (no zip)

 

 

Another version of the Gemsco USS RANDOLPH (CVS-15) patch

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Sotoyomo class Auxiliary Ocean Tug USS PENOBSCOT (ATA-188) In service 1944 to 1971

 

Gemsco red card (no zip) circa 1963

[Salvage Sailor]

Edsall class Destroyer Escort and U-Boat Killer USS SNOWDEN (DE-246)

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Raleigh class amphibious transport dock USS VANCOUVER (LPD-2) in service 1962 to 1992

 

Reverse

[Salvage Sailor]

Gearing class Destroyer USS BASILONE (DDE-824) in service 1949 to 1977 (Reverted to DD-842 June 30, 1962)

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

United States Naval Destroyer School established at Newport R.I. in 1961

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Gemsco gold card USS ESSEX (CVA-9) class leader of the famous ESSEX class aircraft carriers of WWII and beyond

Three-war carrier in service from 1942 to 1969

[Salvage Sailor]

Coast Guard National Search and Rescue School opened at Yorktown, VA on October 10, 1966

[Salvage Sailor]

USCG Fire Island 1960's Gemsco - SAR, LE, ATON

[Salvage Sailor]

Post 1975 Gemsco version USS CORAL SEA (CV-43)

[Salvage Sailor]

RESCORTRON FOUR - Reserve Escort Destroyer Squadron 4, DE training squadron on the East Coast