PROMETHEUS AR 3

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.

Ontario Class Collier / Prometheus Class Repair Ship Keel Laid 18 October 1907 - Launched 5 December 1908 USS ONTARIO Fleet Collier No. 2 Commissioned 15 January 1910 - Decommissioned 7 April 1913 for conversion to Repair Ship USS PROMETHEUS Repair Ship No. 2 Recommissioned 23 December 1914 USS PROMETHEUS AR-3 Designated (AR) 17 July 1920 - Decommissioned 4 October 1924 Recommissioned 15 May 1942 - Decommissioned 1 July 1946 Struck from Naval Register 31 July 1946 Transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal Sold 29 August 1950 for scrap

Naval Covers

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1. USS Prometheus AR-3 Covers Page 1     (1916-1946)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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2nd Commissioning December 23 1914 to October 4 1924

 

Locy Type 1z

1919-04-06

Sailor's Mail

 

Locy Type 2ty USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. P-81

1916-04-02

Dial text - "U.S.S. PROMETHEUS, [comma] PACIFIC STA. [period]". RPPC, sender at Old Cathedral in Panama.

 

Locy Type 3 "CHARLESTON / S. C." (1916)

1916-08-10

Sailors Mail

 

Locy Type 3 "SAN DIEGO / CALIF" (1924)

1924-04-20

Sailors Mail

 

Locy Type 3s

1922-01-16

Picture postcard from Cuba

 

Locy Type 9v

1922-05-23

Cut-Square (as was the practice of the day)

 

Locy Type 9w

1922-05-24

Cut-Square (as was the practice of the day)

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3rd Commissioning May 15 1942 to July 1 1946

 

Locy Type 2(n)

1946-06-20

Note:

 

Locy Type 3z (BBT)

1943-03-24

Censored Officers Mail

 

Locy Type LDPS 2(n)

1946-07-01

Last Day of Postal Service

 

Other Information

The USS PROMETHEUS earned the following awards during her Naval career - Mexican Service Medal, Haitian Campaign Medal (with date bar 1919-1920); World War I Victory Medal (with Mobile Base clasp); China Service Medal; American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 1 Battle star; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) and the Philippines Liberation Medal.

NAMESAKE - In Greek mythology, a Titan and brother of Epimetheus and Atlas, who stole a spark from heaven and gave it as a gift of fire to newly-created mankind. To punish him for this act, Zeus (Jupiter) chained him to a rock in the Caucasus, where an eagle daily tore at his liver. Each night Prometheus regenerated his damaged liver, until finally he was delivered from his torment by Hercules.

Two ships of the US Navy have been named PROMETHEUS - USS Prometheus (Brig, 1814) and USS Prometheus AR-3.

 

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