TRACER AGR 15

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.

Guardian Class Radar Picket Ship Keel Laid December 24 1944 Launched January 31 1945 as WILLIAM J. RIDDLE Operated by Moore McCormack Lines Inc. under contract Laid up December 16 1946 in National Defense Reserve Fleet Leased January 29 1947 to Waterman SS. Corp. under contract Laid up October 29 1947 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group Acquired by U.S. Navy May 21 1957 USS INTERRUPTER AGR-15 Commissioned October 16 1958 USS TRACER AGR-15 Renamed September 4 1959 Decommissioned July 7 1965 Laid up August 16 1965 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group Struck from Naval Register September 1 1965 Sold July 15 1974 to Walco Vessels Ltd. for non-transportation use UNISEA (Commercial service) Placed in service as fish processing plant at Unalaska, AK and renamed Towed to China 2000 for scrap

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).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

1. Interrupter Covers Page 1     (1958)
2. Tracer Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. 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	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u)

1958-10-31

As AGR-15

 

Locy Type 9fu

1960-07-08

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Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
National Defense Service Medal

INTERRUPTER

NAMESAKE - One that interrupts

TRACER

NAMESAKE - One who is employed to locate missing goods or persons

 

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