WINSTON S CHURCHILL DDG 81

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.

Arleigh Burke Class (Flight IIa) Guided Missile Destroyer Keel Laid 7 May 1998 - Launched & Christened 17 April 1999 USS WINSTON S. CHURCHILL DDG-81 Commissioned (Special) 13 October 2000 Commissioned 10 March 2001

Naval Covers

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1. USS Winston S. Churchill DDG-81 Covers Page 1    (1998-2020)

 

Postmarks

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

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Ship Postmarks

 

Locy Type FDC F "Commissioning Day"

2001-03-10

Commissioning, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Locy Type 2-2n+ (USS, FPO AE 09591-1267) (W.S. Churchill)

2001-03-13

Ship's OSC on cover, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Locy Type 9n+ (USS) (W.S. Churchill)

2015-06-01

Ship's OSC on cover, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Locy Type 11-2(n) (USS FPO AE 09591-1267)

2010-08-13

Cachet by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type 11-2 (USS FPO AE 09591)

2017-10-23

Cachet by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type 11-2ny (USS FPO AA 34087) (Unit 100317)

2022-03-29

Collectors request by Foster E. Miller, III.

 

Locy Type 12-2c(n) (USS FPO AE 09591-1267)

2006-03-10

Serviced by Todd Ronnei

 

Locy Type 12-2n (USS, FPO AE 09591) (W.S. Churchill)

2016-02-29

Serviced by Ray Younkins. Cover cancelled with Type 2n+ FPO AE 09591-1267 (W.S. Churchill) postmark.

 

Locy Type 12-2 (USS, FPO AE 09591)

2020-05-05

Collectors request by Foster E. Miller, III.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-10

2008-08-25

Contributed by Bill Payden

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USPS Pictorial Postmarks

 

USPS Pictorial "Commissioning Day Station" Norfolk, VA

2001-03-10

Commissioning, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

USPS Pictorial "Port Visit Station" Philadelphia, PA

2007-05-11

Port Visit, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

USPS Pictorial "Fleet Week New York Station" Staten Island, NY

2007-05-25

Fleet Week NY 2007, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can), (November 30 1874 – January 24 1965).
Churchill was a British politician and statesman, soldier in the British Army, orator, and strategist. A prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his writings on British and world history.

The ships co-sponsors are Lady Soames (Mary Spencer-Churchill), the daughter of Winston Churchill, and Mrs. Janet Cohen, wife of the Secretary of Defense, William S. Cohen.

 

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