I have a challenge for people who enjoy ships

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I have come up with a challenge for all the types of people on the board to solve, what ship has this painted on it internally http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p631/GO_FOR_JOE/image_zpshxu7yxzp.jpeg

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I would guess Yorktown

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Moved to the Game Room.

Colibri
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Bingo, we have a winner

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The Titanic?

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It looked like a squadron patch but I couldn’t identify one that matched. Answers?

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I don’t think it’s a formal unit patch. But it probably is an informal insignia for a specific part of the crew of an aircraft carrier: the catapult team.

Upthread, turner successfully identified it as the USS Yorktown (CV-10, now a museum ship). (Has to be CV-10, since USS Yorktown CV-5 isn’t someplace you could take a picture of it right now, unless you’re Robert Ballard.)

I say catapult crew because:

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[li]It’s a stylized cartoon cat[/li][li]The cat is shooting an aircraft off the deck with a slingshot[/li][li]It’s wearing a green jersey, which is the color of the cat crew deck uniform[/li][/ol]

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It was found on a hatch, leading into the catapult room, cv-10

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Strange that the cat seems to be shooting the plane off the stern of the ship. Look at the carrier’s island, it’s definitely on the right side in the drawing.

Is it possible the image got reversed somewhere along the way?