ST MARYS

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.

Sloop of War Built 1843-44 USS ST. MARY'S (Sloop of War) Commissioned fall 1844 Assigned to Commodore Robert Stockton's Mediterranean Squadron Decommissioned September 1866 Laid up at Mare Island Recommissioned fall 1870 - Decommissioned June 3 1873 Transferred 1875 to the Public Marine School at New York Served as School Ship through June 1908 Sold August 1908 to Thomas Butler and Co. 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. 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.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.

 

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

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1st Commissioning 1844 to September 1866

 

USPO CDS San Francisco, CA

1858-01-05

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Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Civil War Medal

NAMESAKE - A town and river in Georgia and a county in Maryland

 

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