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Navy Zippos                                                                 [1] [2]

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The Navy is one Navy is one of  the largest user of Zippos, making them available for sale on board their ships to crew and visitors.  Many of them have desirable Town & Country (T&C) artwork.
       
  1946-47 Zippo for USS Coral Sea, an aircraft carrier launched in 1947.   1955 Zippo for the USS Coral Sea, celebrating Christmas 1955.
   1956 Zippo with the colorful logo of
USS Seadragon, a submarine with a story told HERE.		  
         
1956 Town & Country Zippo for the USS Bowers, a destroyer escort ship.   1957 T&C Zippo for the destroyer USS Murray.   1957 T&C Zippo for the USS Everglades, a destroyer tender used to support, supply and repair vessels for the fleet.  

1957 Zippo of for the destroyer USS Shields

      
         
  1958 Zippo.  The USS Greenwich Bay was a sea plane tender with its story told HERE.   USS Donner was a landing ship dock designed to carry and launch amphibious vehicles.  The T&C Zippo is dated 1959.   USS Lake Champlain was an antisubmarine aircraft carrier.  The T&C Zippo is from 1959.   1959 T&C Zippo for the anti-submarine warfare carrier USS Essex.  
       
  This 1960 T&C Zippo depicts USS San Pablo. Its story can be found HERE .   The USS Muliphen on this 1960 T&C Zippo was an attack cargo transport.   This is a 1960 Zippo for the USS Hornet which became a famous astronaut recovery ship.

  
    USS Cacapon was an oiler. The 1960 T&C ZIppo shows a  rooster chasing the hen and word play on a politically incorrect expression.

  
Destroyer USS Sproston engraved on a 1961 T&C Zippo
   1962 T&C Zippo for USS Enterprise, the longest, tallest, and mightiest warship to ever sail the seas.   The USS Muliphen on this 1960 T&C Zippo was an attack cargo transport.  
         
    This is a 1960 Zippo for the USS Hornet which became a famous astronaut recovery ship.  

USS Cacapon was an oiler. The 1960 T&C ZIppo shows a  rooster chasing the hen and word play on a politically incorrect expression.

   Destroyer USS Sproston engraved on a 1961 T&C Zippo    1962 T&C Zippo for USS Enterprise, the longest, tallest, and mightiest warship to ever sail the seas.  
     
    Interesting hand-painted mermaid design for the USS Reeves on this 1964 T&C Zippo.  

This is a 1964 Zippo for the USS Caloosahatchee. The reverse reads: "Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp Sparrows Point MD Keel laid 30 Nov 1944 Launched 2 June 1945 Commissioned 10 October 1945"  The oil transport ship was named after a river in Florida.

  
         
Aircraft carrier USS Shangri La on a 1964 T&C Zippo.   This 1964 T&C Zippo has a hand-painted emblem of the United States Naval Reserve, or USNR.   1963 slim T&C Zippo for  destroyer USS Moale.      
                   

Go HERE to see the historical USS Missouri Surrender Zippo