USS RENDOVA I have not been able to find this one.

[tully216]

Anyone have info on this patch?

 

 

 

Mark

[tully216]

[Allan H.]

Rendova is an island in the Solomons that was captured by the US during the New Georgia campaign. It was used by the navy as a PT Boat base for a period of time. Based on the elongated fins on the missile that the duck is sitting on, I would assume that it was used after the war as a part of the US's missile defense system in the Pacific.

 

I've never seen the patch before. It looks like it may be Japanese made.

 

Allan

[joeclown]

Not a ship Rendova is an island, part of the Solomon islands

[joeclown]

Rendova is also associated with President Kennedy and PT 109

[TBMflyer]

Sorry Joe, but you are off base-USS Rendova was CVE-114, a 'jeep' carrier. She saw extensive action in Korea with VMF-212 aboard, I'm guessing the patch is from that era. 

Mark

[atb]

The Rendova served as an antisubmarine hunter-killer aircraft carrier from 1954 to around 1959(?). The ship was finally scrapped in 1971. The missile probably represents an antisubmarine weapon, maybe a Subrok missile.

[joeclown]

Always learning

[tully216]

Thanks for the info guys!!

 

[Salvage Sailor]

3 hours ago, atb said:

The Rendova served as an antisubmarine hunter-killer aircraft carrier from 1954 to around 1959(?). The ship was finally scrapped in 1971. The missile probably represents an antisubmarine weapon, maybe a Subrok missile.

 

4 hours ago, TBMflyer said:

Sorry Joe, but you are off base-USS Rendova was CVE-114, a 'jeep' carrier. She saw extensive action in Korea with VMF-212 aboard, I'm guessing the patch is from that era. 

Mark

 

I'm with Mark, Late 1940's early 1950's patch. 

 

USS RENDOVA (CVE-114)

USS Rendova (CVE-114) entering Gibraltar harbor in April 1948, with a deckload of aircraft, including AT-6 training planes to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force (see above).  Photographed from USS Valley Forge (CV-45), which was then on her 'round the World cruise. Note Grumman F8F Bearcat fighters in the foreground.  Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration, # 80-G-705546.

 

 

WWII & POST WWII SERVICE (1945-1950) - Round the world cruise, etc.

Originally named Moser Bay. Built by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash.;

laid down 15 Jun 1944; launched 28 Dec 1944;

commissioned 22 Oct 1945.

Decommissioned to reserve 27 Jan 1950.

 

Rear Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, USN, Commander, 13th Naval District joins Mayor John Anderson of Tacoma, Washington, and members of the ship's crew at a meal in the crew's mess of USS Rendova (CVE-114), on 3 January 1951. Rendova was recommissioned on that day for Korean War service.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-425481).

 

 

KOREAN WAR - Served in Korean waters 1951-1953

Recommissioned 3 Jan 1951.  

Put "in commission, in reserve" in 1953

 

 

COLD WAR

returned to the active fleet in 1954 as a hunter-killer carrier.

Fate: Decommissioned 30 Jun 1955.

 

Redesignated as an aviation transport (AKV-14) 7 May 1959 while in reserve.

Stricken for disposal 1 April 1971.

Sold and scrapped in 1971.

 

[Bearmon]

Absolutely stunning. Patch. Could be a torpedo as Allan suggests.  

[yokota57]

Looks like a Korean War-era HVAR to me. (VMF-212 F4U / USS Rendova)

[tully216]

Wow,

 

  That is a ton of help, Thanks!!