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<h3>Ship Name and Designation History</h3>
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Silas Bent Class Hydrographic Survey Ship<br/> 
Keel Laid December 19 1964 - Launched November 20 1965<br/> 
Delivered to the US Navy May 19 1967<br/><br/> 
<li>'''USNS ELISHA KENT KANE T-AGS-27'''<br/>Placed in service May 26 1967 - 
Placed out of service March 14 2001<br/>
Struck from the Naval Register March 14 2001<br/><br/> 
<li>'''TCG CANADARLI A-588''' (Turkish Naval Service)<br/>Sold and renamed to Turkey March 14 2001 
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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
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US Navy Machine Postmark<br/>
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1977-11-05
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THE Ship had no postal facilities.
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
USNS ELISHA KENT KANE earned the following awards during her Naval career - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE''' - Assistant Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane, USN (1820-1857).<br/>Elisha Kent Kane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 3 February 1820. Though weakened by rheumatic fever as a youth, he was educated as a physician at the University of Pennsylvania and, in July 1843, was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy. In 1844, prior to taking up his duties, Kane sailed to China as part of a U.S. diplomatic mission. His later Navy assignments involved cruises off Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea and off South America. In 1847 he undertook a daring courier mission to Mexico City, traveling through hostile territory, and surviving severe battle wounds.<br/>
In 1850-1851, Kane was surgeon and official historian for the DeHaven expedition, sent to the Canadian Arctic in the brigs Advance and Rescue to look for possible survivors of Sir John Franklin's exploring party. A second expedition sailed in the Advance in late May 1853, with the same object and with Kane as leader. Frozen in between Greenland and Canada, Kane and his men endured more than two years of hardship and an arduous journey over ice and open water to Upernavik, Greenland. Hailed as a hero upon his return to the U.S., Kane undertook a program of writing and lectures. After his health failed during a trip to England in the Fall of 1856, he went to Cuba in search of recovery. However his condition became worse and Elisha Kent Kane died in Havana on 16 February 1857. {DANFS}
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