ANTIGONE ID 3007

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.

Troop Transport Built 1900 by J. C. Techlenborg, Geestemude, Germany Launched 8 December 1900 NECKAR (Commercial Service) Owned and operated by Norddeutscher Lloyd (North German Lloyd) Seized by the U.S. Government in 1917 Acquired by U.S. Navy July 2 1917 Renamed September 1 1917 USS ANTIGONE ID-3007 Commissioned September 5 1917 - Decommissioned September 24 1919 Struck from Naval Register 1919 Transferred to War Department 1919 USAT ANTIGONE Transferred to War Department 1919 for service in the Army Transport Service POTOMAC (Commercial Service) Owned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and operated by its United States Lines Renamed between 1920 and 1922 Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1929 has the notation that the ship was "Broken Up"

 

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     (1919)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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Post Office Established September 25 1917 - Disestablished September 29 1919

 

NO ANTIGONE POSTMARKS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

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Other Information

NAMESAKE - The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in Greek mythology. Antigone is most famous as the heroine of tragedies by Sophoand Euripides. She embodied the virtues of faithfulness and heroism which characterized the Greek ideal of womanhood

 

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