PUTNAM DD 287

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.

Clemson Class Destroyer
Keel Laid 30 June 1919 - Launched 30 September 1919


1. USS PUTNAM Destroyer No. 287
   Commissioned 18 December 1919
   
   
2. USS PUTNAM DD-287
   Designated (DD) 17 July 1920 - Decommissioned 1 May 1930
   
   Struck from Naval Register 22 October 1930
   
   
3. TEAPA (Merchant Service) Sold 17 January 1931 and renamed
   Operated as Banana Carrier 1931-32
   Operated as Army Freighter 1942-45
   Operated as Banana Carrier 1947-51
   Sold May 1955
   
   Fate unknown

 

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type 3(AC) "CUBAN / WATERS"

1920-02-26

Postcard. From the Jay Milewski collection.

 

Locy Type 3(AC) "VERACRUZ / MEXICO"

1920-06-09

Real-photo postcard of the post office building, Veracruz, Mexico

 

Locy Type 3(AC) "VERACRUZ / MEXICO"

1920-06-09

Real-photo postcard of the post office building, Veracruz, Mexico

 

Locy Type 3s (A)

1929-02-09

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Other Information

NAMESAKE - Master Charles Flint Putnam, USN (1 December 1854 – 1882)
Putnam entered the Naval Academy at the age of 14. Upon his request at graduation in 1873, he was ordered to the Far East in KEARSARGE, serving in that vessel with the Asiatic Squadron until 1875. Master Putnam was stationed at San Francisco in 1876 and was attached to schoolship Jamestown in 1877–78. In 1879 he joined the Coast Survey Steamer HASSLER in the North Pacific. Putnam volunteered in 1881 for service in RODGERS, fitted out to search for JEANETTE, which had been lost in the Arctic on an expedition to reach the North Pole. When RODGERS burned at St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, November 30 1881, Putnam took supplies to the survivors on dog sledes. On his return to his depot at Cape Serdze, he missed his way in a blinding snow storm January 10 1882, drifted out to sea on an ice-floe and was never heard from again.

Two US Navy ships have been named in his honor; USS Putnam DD-287 and USS Putnam DD-757.

 

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