WEBSTER ARV 2

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.

Chourre Class Aircraft Repair Ship Authorized as Internal Combustion Engine Repair Ship "MASBATE ARG-15" Reclassified Aircraft Repair Ship (ARV) February 22 1944 Renamed March 30 1944 Keel Laid July 1 1944 as Maritime Commission type (EC2-S-C1) hull Launched August 5 1944 USS WEBSTER ARV-2 Commissioned May 15 1945 - Decommissioned June 8 1946 Laid up in Reserve Fleet Struck from Naval Register September 1 1962 Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet Sunk 1974 as artificial reef off Cape Henry

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1945-46)

 

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 2z

1945-08-01

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-16b

1945-10-27

Navy Day Tokyo Bay 1945

 

Locy Type LDPS F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-16

1946-01-31

Last Day Postal Service

 

Locy Type LDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-16a

1946-06-28

Last Day in Commission

 

Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

NAMESAKE - Walter Wynne Webster USN (July 28 1888 - March 16 1943)
Webster was appointed Midshipman on July 6 1907 and graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1911. He spent his initial tours of sea duty before he began post-graduate studies at the Naval Academy in 1913. He then took a course of instruction in naval architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later commissioned as an Assistant Naval Constructor, with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade), on May 15 1914, Webster served in the hull divisions at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash., and at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., before he went to Washington, D.C., for his first tour of duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics. In the years that followed, he became known as one of the pioneers of naval aviation, expending his energies in the development of better naval aircraft for the nation's fledgling naval air arm. Commissioned as Naval Constructor, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, on June 6 1922 and given his naval observer's wings on July 22 of the same year, Webster was detached from his duty in Washington on September 25 1925 for "duty involving flying" at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he arrived on November 2 1925. He subsequently returned to Washington in the summer of 1929 for another tour in the Bureau of Aeronautics. Subsequently taking instruction at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., in heavier-than-air flight from October 30 1933 to June 20 1934, Webster went briefly to the Bureau of Aeronautics once more from October 26 to November 19, before he became Force Materiel Officer on the staff of Rear Admiral H. V. Butler, Commander, Aircraft, Battle Force, on December 21 1934. He later became manager of the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia, reporting for duty on June 25 1936, a post in which he served until his detachment on June 24 1940. After another brief Washington tour, Webster resumed his duties as manager of the Naval Aircraft Factory on December 26 1941, less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While serving in that post, Webster was killed in a plane crash outside of Chester, Pa., on March 16 1943

 

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