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General Boards => Submarine Related Chatter => Topic started by: chris on April 10, 2008, 09:27:57 PM
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A GOOD SOURCE FOR PATCH INFO IS MICHAEL L ROBERTS BOOK
U.S.NAVY PATCH GUIDE-SUBMARINES
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So patch styles varied with these eras? Please elaborate for me, I'm dense sometimes.
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YES IF YOU LOOK AT THE PATCHES OF WAR TIME BOATS THAT WENT THROUGH THE GUPPY PROGRAMS THEIR PATCHES WOULD BE CHANGED TO REFLECT THINGS LIKE SSR,SSK.WHEN THEY GOT DONE WITH SOME THEY WERE DAMN UGLY.BRINGS TO MIND THE POOR REDFIN.ANYWAY MOST OF THE WWII PATCHES ARE VERY GOOD,THEY WERE DONE BY PEOPLE LIKE DISNEY AND WALTER LANCE FROM WOODY WOODPECKER FAME
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True. The Batfish ss310 had 2 different patches. 1 for the first crew That has our freindly lizzard guy riding a torpedo and the post war crew w/ a bat spread eagle holding torpedos in each claw. i do not have any pics to post at this time.
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The Batfish ss310 had 2 different patches. 1 for the first crew That has our freindly lizzard guy riding a torpedo and the post war crew w/ a bat spread eagle holding torpedos in each claw. i do not have any pics to post at this time.
Here ya go!
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THE LIZARD/BAT? RIDING THE TORP IS A CLASSIC.ONE OF THE BETTER SUB PATCHES FOR SURE
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ONE OF THE BETTER SUB PATCHES FOR SURE
I agree, but I'm a little biased ;) I also like the one of the Archerfish. Rick - is that round wooden Archerfish thingy (technical term) still at the museum? Maybe you could snap a photo and post it.
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Mark A
Thanks. I can use these. You would not by chance have the 681's?
I will post a pic of the Archerfish plaquard for every one. This is real cool as you can really tell Disney had some handy work in it. If you look at the hand it is real obvious. While we are on the Archerfish. I like to remind everyone that We still have her tubes. :)
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You would not by chance have the 681's?
All I have is a copy of a patch
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This is excelent. I can use these when and If I can print more T shirts...
Thank you.
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The Archerfish as promised....
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When everyone looks at that picture look at what the fish has in his back pack, it is a Japanese aircraft carrier. :2funny:
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REQUIN had three (maybe four) different crew patches..
the first was done by Walt Disney studios, the second by a guy who was in REQUIN's first radar-picket/MIGRAINE crew, and the third by a gentleman named Bob "Dex" Armstrong.
Click on the link to see the different versions-
http://www.geocities.com/uss_requin/insignia.htm
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USS CROAKER POST WAR PATCH
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Wow I had never seen the Batfish's post-war patch before. And I didn't know Disney did anything with them. Thats really cool. The Disney fact as well as the ships emblems.
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Here is one of my favorite patches. It was mailed to me by the CO of the nuclear-powered Silversides (SSN-679) in 1984. It was made to commemorate a trip they made to the instrumented sonar range down in the Bahamas, Autec.
It shows the legacy 236 Aussie porpoise with the hat (with a feather in it): On its back is the 679's sail, which at the time included a small aft extension for a radio buoy. The flag is supposed to be "???!!!..." which in signal flag lingo meant "What the hell??!!" and was a favorite of the 236's first skipper Creed C. Burlingame. Trailing from the fish's mouth is a wire-guided Mark 48.
I had the incredible pleasure and luck to be an unofficial "pen pal" with the 679 from 1981 until she decommed. It led me to visit her four times, including once in port, once for a day-long dependent's cruise, and twice for tiger cruises lasting a total of a week. It all started when the XO's wife visited the 236 in May 1981 and said if I ever was in the area to contact her husband who would give me a tour of the 679. I was during the summer. The CO said that he wanted to keep in touch with the 236 but that no one would write him. I said I'd be happy to and did. Over the following years, I sent them photos, historical information and even a surplus klaxon that they restored and used, the only fast attack boat to have one. Wonderful memories!
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Somehow an emoticon may have gotten in the way: The "What the hell" flag is supposed to have three question marks followed by three exclamation marks followed by a string of periods. It was meant to be flown at the end of a string of signal flags to add emphasis.