GLACIER AF 4

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.

Built 1891 at J. L. Thompson & Sons, Sunderland, Great Britain as PORT CHALMERS
Acquired by U.S. Navy 1898 and converted for Naval service


1. USS DELMONICO
   Commissioned July 5 1898
   
   
2. USS GLACIER
   Renamed July 11 1898
   Decommissioned March 6 1899
   Recommissioned March 31 1899 - Decommissioned August 1 1903
   Recommissioned December 15 1903 - Decommissioned July 30 1904
   Recommissioned September 15 1904
   
   
3. USS GLACIER AF-4
   Designated (AF) July 17 1920
   Decommissioned March 6 1922
   
   Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown)
   Sold August 17 1922 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1    (1911-13,2009)

 

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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4th Commissioning September 15 1904 to March 6 1922

 

Locy Type 1 (C+)

1910-08-28

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Locy Type 2 1911

1911-04-13

Picture postcard of a indoor swimming pool in San Diego, CA

 

Locy Type 2 1921

1921-02-01

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Locy Type 3 (AC) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"

1913-08-19

Picture postcard of a San Francisco CA monument

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N/A

1908 to 1909

N/A

Great White Fleet picture postcard.

 

USPS Pictorial "USS GLACIER AF-4 Station" San Diego CA

2009-01-09

100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

GLACIER earned the following awards during her Naval career - Philippine Campaign Medal - Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp).

NAMESAKE - A field or body of ice formed in a region where snowfall exceeds melting; it moves slowly down a mountainside or valley. The second and fourth Glacier were named for Glacier Bay, Alaska; the third Glacier for Glacier County, Montana.

Four ships of the US Navy have been named GLACIER - USS Glacier AF-4, USS Glacier CVE-33, USS Glacier AK-183 and USS Glacier AGB-4.

 

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