PEERLESS ID 1639
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.
Built 1917 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA Official Number: 214921 Acquired by U.S. Navy December 8 1918 and renamed Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) and later joined the Cruiser and Transport Force Decommissioned September 22 1919 Scrapped in 1949 |
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).
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- 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.
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Postmark Type |
Postmark Date |
Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image |
Thumbnail Link To Cover Image |
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Non-postal |
c1918 |
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Troop billet card
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NO POSTMARKS |
POSTMARK DATE |
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Other Information
NAMESAKE - Having no equal
Additional Naming History Sources
Naval History and Heritage Command (DANFS) says:
"The first Peerless retained the name she carried at the time of her acquisition by the Navy."
Which indicates that the ship was renamed to PEERLESS before being acquired by the U.S. Navy.
The other standard sources do not make this distinction.
Shipscribe says:
"She was chartered by the U.S. Army in October 1917 for World War I service."
This would have been before service in the U.S. Navy service. The other standard sources do not mention U.S. Army service.
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