DELPHINUS AF 24

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Delphinus Class Stores Ship
    Built 1915 at Workman Clark and Co., Ltd., Belfast, Ireland

  1. SAN MATEO (Commercial Service)
  2. Owner listed as San Mateo S.S. Co. (United Fruit Co. Line)
    Later owned by the United Fruit Steamship Corp
    Official Number: 213201
    Acquired by U.S. Navy August 11 1942

  3. USS SAN MATEO AF-24
  4. Commissioned August 11 1942
    Renamed August 22 1942

  5. USS DELPHINUS AF-24
  6. Decommissioned May 9 1946
    Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 1946
    Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, AL

    Sold for scrap on February 6, 1948

 

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
to
Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

United Fruit Company
Purser's Mark

1934-11-23

As S.S. SAN MATEO



 

Locy Type
2z

1946-01-23

Note:

 

Other Information

DELPHINUS

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - A northern constellation

 


 

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