Embroidered Patch - USS Rainbow was the only ship in the United States Navy by that name, which originally converted to a distilling ship in 1898, and then converted again in 1917 to a submarine...
USS Leonidas (AD-7) was named for Leonidas I, king of Sparta. She was built in 1897-1898 by S. P. Austin & Son at Sunderland, England, as the merchant ship Elizabeth Holland, acquired by the U.S...