CALIFORNIA STATE

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.

Miscellaneous Unclassified Laid down in 1919 as SS LAKE FELLOWSHIP at American Ship Building Col., Cleveland, OH Named changed to SS HENRY COUNTY prior to launching Launched, 18 October 1919 HENRY COUNTY (Commercial Service) Completed and placed in service in November 1919 Owned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB). No information on what company operated the ship under contract Official Number: 219231 Placed out of service in the mid-1920s, and laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet under USSB custody USS HENRY COUNTY IX-34 Commissioned 27 May 1930 - Decommissioned 22 August 1930 Loaned to the State of California 22 August 1930 CALIFORNIA STATE (Training Ship) Renamed 23 January 1931 Transferred to Maritime Commission 30 June 1940 GOLDEN STATE (Training Ship) Renamed in 1941 ISLE OF PATMOS (Commercial Service) Sold to John E. Tsavaris (Panormitis SS Co) in November 1947 and renamed SANTA ROSA (Commercial Service) Sold 1952 to Navebras SS. Co of Brazil and renamed Scrapped in August 1962

 

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. California State 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

 

Locy Type SLP (43x3)

c 1935

Cover courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.

 

Other Information

HENRY COUNTY

NAMESAKE - Counties in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.

 

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