Shipwreck Pins and Buttons
Description: Shipwreck grew up next to the sprawling San Diego Navy Yards. He enlisted at the youngest possible age with his parents' permission and then served with distinction in the Mekong Delta where he contended with river pirates, smugglers, and insurgents. He also spent time at several naval bases and on carrier-initiated operations in the Middle East. After saving Flint & Mutt from a desert sand storm as well as Cobra he joined the G.I. Joe Team, the rest as they say is history.
Description: Shipwreck has earned a reputation as being one of the more rambunctious members of the G.I. Joe Team. It's not that he is in any way disobedient or disrespectful of higher up officers. His arrogant, brash personality and stereotypical sailor attitude has gotten him in trouble so many times. He prefers to take up his own actions and fight the enemy in his own way. He also has a reputation for telling tall tales and for his poor culinary skills. It seems he is the only one who can stomach his own cooking. His superiors had enough and shipped him to Navy S.E.A.L. School in the hopes the training there would make him a better man. It made him better alright... a better fighter only.
Description: There are over 6,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, having caused an estimate loss of 30,000 mariners’ lives. It is estimated that there are about 550 wrecks in Lake Superior, most of which are undiscovered. At least 200 lie along Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, a treacherous 80- stretch of shoreline with no safe harbor between Munising, Michigan, and Whitefish Point. The famous Edmund Fitzgerald lies just 15 miles to the northwest of Whitefish Point.
Description: The Joes find themselves in a battle to both stop Cobra and locate the Pyramid's self destruct controls. Finding themselves in enemy territory, Shipwreck and Snake Eyes elude Cobra forces and are able to steal information about the Pyramid and the cubes from Cobra's production facility in Enterprise City. Hiding in a Cobra-frequented nightclub, they ally themselves with a singer named Satin, who provides them with disguises and sneaks them out of Cobra territory. They make it back to Joe HQ and are able to pass on the info about the Pyramid, including the self-destruct mechanism to deactivate it permanently.
Description: SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
Description: A cartoon raccoon dressed as a ship captain stands at a ship's wheel, navigating rough, wavy seas. The raccoon wears a captain's hat and gives a thumbs up. The text "I RUN A TIGHT SHIPWRECK" curves around the central circular scene, set against a background of golden horizontal lines.
