VICKSBURG PG 11

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.

Annapolis Class Gunboat Keel Laid January 17 1896 - Launched December 5 1896 Delivered June 27 1897 USS VICKSBURG Gunboat No. 11 Commissioned October 23 1897 - Decommissioned July 15 1904 Recommissioned May 17 1909 - Decommissioned June 29 1914 Recommissioned May 1914 - Decommissioned June 1914 Recommissioned April 13 1917 - Decommissioned October 16 1919 Transferred October 20 1919 to the Washington State Militia Nautical School VICKSBURG PG-11 Designated (PG) July 17 1920 Struck from Naval Register May 2 1921 Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard USCGC VICKSBURG Commissioned 1 July 1921 - Decommissioned 12 October 1921 Recommissioned 1 June 1922 USCGC ALEXANDER HAMILTON Renamed August 18 1922 USCGC ALEXANDER HAMILTON (WIX-272) Designation assigned 6 March 1923 Decommissioned June 7 1930 Assigned permanently to Coast Guard Depot Curtis Bay, MD as Station ship 14 January 1931 USCGC BETA (WIX-272) Renamed 12 January 1942 Reassigned July 1 1940 as Station Ship at New London, CT Decommissioned December 30 1944 Returned to U.S. Navy March 12 1945 Sold March 28 1946 for scrap

 

Conflicting History Data

The number of commissioning/decommissioning events listed in NavSource is confusing as there are over a dozen and sometimes there isn't a decommissioning event associated with a given commissioning.

Wikipedia doesn't seem to go into as much detail and thus doesn't get bogged down by it.

 

Naval Covers

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).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

1. Covers Page 1     (1911)

 

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.

 

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

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2nd Commissioning May 17 1909 to June 29 1914

 

Locy Type 2

1911-09-16

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Other Information

NAMESAKE - Named for the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi

NAMESAKE - Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

 

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