SUMTER APA 52

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.

Sumter Class Attack Transport Keel Laid April 3 1942 as IBERVILLE Renamed and classified Navy Transport AP-97 Launched October 4 1942 Reclassified Attack Transport (APA) February 1 1943 Acquired by U.S. Navy April 30 1943 USS SUMTER APA-52 Commissioned September 1 1943 - Decommissioned March 19 1946 Struck from Naval Register April 17 1946 IBERVILLE (Commercial Service) Returned to MARAD August 1 1946 and renamed with original intended name GATEWAY CITY (Commercial Service) Sold to Waterman SS Co. April 8 1947 and renamed Official Number: 251506 Sold to Pan-Atlantic SS. Co. February 7 1956 Converted to a container ship September 1957 Sold to Coastal Ship Corp. December 1957 Sold to Donmac Corp. May 15 1968 Sold to R.J. Reynolds Industries Inc. December 12 1970 Sold August 31 1978 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1945)

 

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

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1946-03-09

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Locy Type 2z

1945-01-12

Censored, sailor's mail

 

Other Information

SUMTER earned the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (w/ 6 Battle stars), the World War II Victory Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) and two (2) Philippines Liberation Medals during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Thomas Sumter-born in 1734 near Charlottesville, Va-moved to South Carolina in 1764 and lived there until his death in 1832.
     An American Revolutionary officer, he was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Continental Regiment in 1776. He was appointed Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia on 6 October 1780. Sumter distinguished himself in operations against the British in the Carolinas. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793 and from 1797 to 1801 when he became Senator. Sumter served in the Senate until 1810. He died on his plantation, "South Mount," near Stateburg, S.C., on 1 June 1832.
     His name is commemorated by a city and a county of South Carolina, as well as by the historic fort in Charleston Harbor which Confederate forces bombarded, opening the Civil War. {DANFS}

 

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