AFDB 7

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.

ABSD-4 Class Advance Base Section Dock Constructed of seven Advance Base Docks ABD-37, ABD-38, ABD-39, and ABD-40 Completed December 1944,January-February 1945 ABD-51 and ABD-52 completed January-March 1945 ABD-58 completed October 1944 Assembly completed March 1945 ABSD-7 Placed In Service at Mare Island Navy Yard March 1945 Inactivated March 1946 Reclassified Auxiliary Floating Drydock (AFDB) August 1946 Disassembled and laid up in The Atlantic Reserve Fleet January 1947 Sections "A", "B", "C", and "D" towed to Holy Loch, Scotland 1961 LOS ALAMOS AFDB-7 Placed In Service November 10 1961 One section (Unknown) turned over to U.S. Army 1968 Disassembled sections returned to The United States 1990 Six sections transferred to The Brownsville Navigation District, TX 1996 SOLOMON ORTIZ DRY DOCK Currently in operation at Keppel AmFELS Shipyard, Brownsville, TX., servicing ships and oil rigs

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).

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1. Covers Page 1     (1945)

 

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.
 
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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 January 25 1945 - Disestablished November 28 1945

 

Locy Type 2z

1945-08-13

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

Locy Type 2z+SL

1946-08-25

As ABSD-7

 

Other Information

AFDB-7

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (3) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (5) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

LOS ALAMOS

NAMESAKE - A town in north central New Mexico; site of research and development of nuclear weapons during World War II, and of the first explosion of an atomic bomb 16 July 1945

 

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