CRANE DD 109

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.

Wickes (Little) Class Destroyer
Keel Laid January 7 1918 - Launched July 4 1918


1. USS CRANE Destroyer No. 109
   Commissioned April 18 1919
   
   
2. USS CRANE DD-109
   Designated (DD) July 17 1920
   Decommissioned June 7 1922
   Recommissioned December 18 1939 - Decommissioned November 14 1945
   
   Struck from Naval Register December 19 1945
   Sold November 1 1946

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (1943)

 

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

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2nd Commissioning December 18 1939 to November 14 1945

 

Locy Type FDPS 3r "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"

1940-02-24

First Day of Postal Service, cachet by George Neumann and Frederick Horton

 

Locy Type 2z

1943

Note:

 

Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"

1940-06-21

Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell

 

Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"

1940-07-27

Naval Reserve Cruise, cachet by - Myron F. McCamley

 

Locy Type 3z (BTT)

c1942

Cover by - Ted Harrington

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - William M. Crane, born in 1776 at Elizabethtown, N.J., was appointed Midshipman in 1799 and Captain in 1814. Serving as a Lieutenant in CONGRESS, he won honors for his gallant fighting in the attacks on Tripoli in 1804. Captain Crane was assigned command of the Mediterranean Squadron in 1827 and acted as one of the commissioners in the negotiations with the Ottoman Empire. He was on the Board of Navy Commissioners and the first Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography from 1842 until his death March 18 1846

 

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