REPUBLIC AP 33

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 1907 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Northern Ireland


1. SS PRESIDENT GRANT (Passenger Liner)
Operated by The Hamburg-American Packet Steamship Co. (Hamburg-American Line)
Interned at New York 1914
Seized by U.S. Government April 6 1917
Turned over to U.S. Navy April 6 1917


2. USS PRESIDENT GRANT ID-3014
   Commissioned August 2 1917 - Decommissioned October 6 1919
   
   Struck from Naval Register October 6 1919
   Transferred to U.S. Army Transportation Service (ATS) October 6 1919 and renamed
   
   
3. USAT REPUBLIC
   Commissioned November 1920 - Decommissioned March 1921
   Laid up at Norfolk, VA
   
   
4. SS PRESIDENT BUCHANAN (Commercial Service)
   Sold to the United States Lines 1924
   Reacquired by ATS 1931
   
   
5. USAT REPUBLIC
   Recommissioned 1931
   Reacquired by U.S. Navy 1941
   
   
6. USS REPUBLIC AP-33
   Commissioned Transport (AP) July 22 1941
   Decommissioned January 27 1945
   
   Struck from Naval Register February 2 1945
   Transferred to U.S. Army for conversion to Hospital Ship 1945
   
   
7. USAHS REPUBLIC
   Commissioned August 1945
   
   
8. USAT REPUBLIC
   Designation changed to Transport (T) February 1946
   Decommissioned (Date unknown)
   
   Sold for scrapping 1952

 

Naval Covers

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1. Republic Covers Page 1    (1940-42)

 

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.

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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 3 New York, NY

1918-05-xx

The postmark is applied over the "U. S. Naval Forces" straightline handstamp and is dated 1918; the letter, however, is dated 1919.

 

UNITED STATES SEA POST

1930-10-11

As S.S. REPUBLIC

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USPO Machine Honolulu, HI

1940-07-08

As USAT REPUBLIC

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Locy Type FDPS 3z

1942-02-14

First Day Postal Service

 

Other Information

PRESIDENT GRANT
Received the World War I Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Ulysses Simpson Grant (April 27 1822 - July 23 1885)
Civil War General and Hero and 18th President of The United States

REPUBLIC
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them

 

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