PRESIDENT WARFIELD IX 169

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.

Steel-hulled Passenger Steamer
Built 1928


1. PRESIDENT WARFIELD (Passenger-Cargo Ship)
Owned and operated by Baltimore Steam Packet Company

Acquired by War Shipping Administration July 12 1942
Transfered to British Ministry of War Transport and served as a barracks and training ship
Manned by a British merchant crew during World War II
Returned to U.S. Naval Custody May 21 1944


2. USS PRESIDENT WARFIELD IX-169
Commissioned Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) May 21 1944
Decommissioned September 13 1945

Struck from Naval Register October 11 1945
Returned to War Shipping Administration November 14 1945


3. EXODUS 1947 (Privately Owned)
Sold November 9 1946, to the Potomac Shipwrecking Co. of Washington D.C.,
An agent of the Jewish political group Haganah and renamed
Transported Jews to Palestine and was moored in the port of Haifa
Burned to the waterline August 26 1952 and was towed to Shemen Beach, Haifa

Raised and scrapped 1963 by an Italian firm

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1    (1944)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

NO POSTMARKS REPORTED - NO ONBOARD POST OFFICE

 

Locy Type 2z

1944-09-05

N/A

Note: Posted from another ship or station...ship had no post office.

 

Locy Type 2z

1944-12-30

N/A

Note: Posted from another ship or station...ship had no post office.

 

USPS Pictorial "Exodus 1947 Station" Norfolk, VA

2007-12-27

Cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

PRESIDENT WARFIELD earned the following awards during her US Navy career - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal.

NAMESAKE - S. Davies Warfield, president of Old Bay Line, Chesapeake Bay, and uncle of the Duchess of Windsor, wife of the former Edward VIII, King of England in 1936.

 

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