SCORPION PY 3

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 1896 by John N. Robins, South Brooklyn, New York


1. SOVEREIGN (Private Yacht)
Owned by US businessman M. C. D. Borden
Acquired by U.S. Navy 7 April 1898 and renamed


2. USS SCORPION (Gunboat)
Commissioned 11 April 1898 - Decommissioned 14 January 1899 for conversion to Gunboat


3. USS SCORPION Gunboat No. 3
Recommissioned 22 August 1899 - Decommissioned 24 July 1901
Recommissioned 1 July 1902 - Decommissioned 6 April 1917
Interned in Constantinople, Turkey 11 April 1918 - 9 November 1918
Recommissioned 12 November 1918


4. USS SCORPION PY-3
Redesignated Patrol Yacht (PY) 17 July 1920
Decommissioned 18 February 1928

Struck from Naval Register 23 March 1929
Sold 25 June 1929 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Scorpion PY-3 Covers Page 1    (1910-1924)

 

Postmarks

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

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3rd Commissioning July 1 1902 to April 6 1917

Post Office Established 5 November 1908 - Post Office Disestablished 6 April 1917
Gunboat No. 3

 

Locy Type 1

1911-04-15

From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 3 (C) "CONS'PLE / TURKEY"

1916-02-21

Sailor mail

 

Locy Type RECD

1912-02-03

Sailor mail. From the Jim Myerson collection.

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4th Commissioning November 12 1918 to February 18 1928

Post Office Reestablished 1 January 1919 - Post Office Disestablished 25 May 1927
PY-3

 

Locy Type 3s (AC) "CONS'PLE / TURKEY"

1921-09-15

Sailors mail. From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 6

1927-04-22

Sailors mail. From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 9v

1924-03-07

Sailors mail. From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type 9w (C)

1927-07-19

NMC Card. From the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-30

1926-01-11

sailors mail

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Any of various arachnids of warm dry regions, having a segmented body and an erectile tail tipped with a venomous sting.

 

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