Editing Seabee (section)

== The "Seabee" and Unit insignias ==

On 1 March 1942 the RADM Moreell recommended that an insignia be created to promote ''esprit de corps'' in the new CBs to ID their equipment as the Air corps did to ID squadrons. It was not intended for uniforms.<ref name="Bases.Ch6"/>{{rp|136}} Frank J. Iafrate, a civilian file clerk at [[Quonset Point]] Advance Naval Base, Davisville, Rhode Island, who created the original "Disney Style" Seabee. In early 1942 his design was sent to RADM Moreell who made a single request: that the Seabee being set inside a letter Q, for Quonset Point, be changed to a hawser rope and it would be officially adopted.<ref name="beelogoorigin">{{cite web |url=http://aville94thbattalion.tripod.com/id3.html |title=Origin of the SeaBee logo |website=Albertville 94th Battalion, U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref>

The Seabees had a second Logo. It was of a shirtless constructionman holding a sledge hammer with a rifle strapped across his back standing upon the words "Construimus Batuimus USN". The figure was on a shield with a blue field across the top and vertical red and white stripes. A small CEC logo is left of the figure and a small anchor is to the right. This logo was incorporated into many CB Unit insignias.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://picssr.com/photos/usnavyseabeemuseum/page55?nsid=60248384@N05 |title=U.S. Navy Seabee Museum |website=Picssr |access-date=18 October 2017 |archive-date=19 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019061215/http://picssr.com/photos/usnavyseabeemuseum/page55?nsid=60248384@N05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During World War II, artists working for [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney Insignia Department]] designed logos for about ten Seabee units including the: 60th NCB,<ref name="disney">{{cite web |url=https://news.usni.org/2013/07/31/disney-insignia-from-world-war-ii |title=Disney Insignia from World War II |first=John |last=Daly |date=31 July 2013 |website=[[United States Naval Institute|USNI]] News |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> 78th NCB<ref name="disney"/> 112th NCB,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavyseabeemuseum/5559458936 |title=112th Naval Construction Battalion Logo |website=Flickr.com |date=25 March 2011 |access-date=18 October 2017}}</ref> and the 133rd NCB.<ref>[https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/seabee/explore/seabee-unit-histories.html/ 133 Naval Construction Battalion Log, 1946, p.6, Seabee Museum Archives, Port Hueneme, CA 133 NCB Cruisebook NHHC: Seabee Museum]</ref> There are two Disney published Seabee logos that are not identified with any unit.<ref>Disney Don's Dogtags, Walton Rawls, Abbeville Press, 1992</ref>