PALOS

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.

4th rate Iron Screw Tug Built 1865 USS PALOS (Tugboat) Placed In Service as Yard Tug 1866 - Placed In Ordinary 1869 USS PALOS (Gunboat) Converted to Gunboat and Commissioned June 11 1870 Decommissioned January 25 1893 KEIKO MARU (Commercial Service) Sold at auction January 25 1893 and renamed Subsequently scrapped

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Postmarks

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Washington D.C. CDS

c1870s

No Image

Incoming mail to ship at Yokohama Japan

 

Ships Marking Charing Cross BRITISH Square Circle postmark

1889-05-31

Letter to the CO, LCdr J.E. Craig, sent from Charing Cross (London) England (April 4 1889) to Yokohama Japan (May 31 1889).
The USS PALOS was part of the Asiatic Station from Sept. 1870 to Jan. 1893. Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Named for Palos de la Frontera in Spain, the place where Christopher Colombus started the first voyage to America.

Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name PALOS - USS PALOS (Gunboat) and USS Palos PR-1

 

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