PRESIDENT WARFIELD IX 169
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.
- Steel-hulled Passenger Steamer
- PRESIDENT WARFIELD (Passenger-Cargo Ship) Owned and operated by Baltimore Steam Packet Company
- USS PRESIDENT WARFIELD IX-169 Commissioned Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) May 21 1944
- EXODUS 1947 (Privately Owned) Sold November 9 1946, to the Potomac Shipwrecking Co. of Washington D.C.,
Built 1928
Acquired by War Shipping Administration July 12 1942
Transfered to British Ministry of War Transport and served as a barracks and training ship
Manned by a British merchant crew during World War II
Returned to U.S. Naval Custody May 21 1944
Decommissioned September 13 1945
Struck from Naval Register October 11 1945
Returned to War Shipping Administration November 14 1945
An agent of the Jewish political group Haganah and renamed
Transported Jews to Palestine and was moored in the port of Haifa
Burned to the waterline August 26 1952 and was towed to Shemen Beach, Haifa
Raised and scrapped 1963 by an Italian firm
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- Covers Page 1 (1944)
Postmarks
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Postmark Type |
Date From to Date To |
Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image |
Thumbnail Link To Cover Image |
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NO POSTMARKS REPORTED - NO ONBOARD POST OFFICE
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Locy Type 2z |
1944-09-05 |
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N/A |
Note: Posted from another ship or station...ship had no post office.
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Locy Type 2z |
1944-12-30 |
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N/A |
Note: Posted from another ship or station...ship had no post office.
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USPS Pictorial |
2007-12-27 |
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Cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS
Other Information
PRESIDENT WARFIELD earned the following awards during her US Navy career - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal.
NAMESAKE - S. Davies Warfield, president of Old Bay Line, Chesapeake Bay, and uncle of the Duchess of Windsor, wife of the former Edward VIII, King of England in 1936.
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