OCEANOGRAPHER AGS 3
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.
- Yacht
- CORSAIR (Private Yacht) Built for and owned by J. Pierpont Morgan
- USS CORSAIR SP-159 Commissioned May 15 1917 - Decommissioned May 7 1919
- CORSAIR (Private Yacht) Returned to her owner J. P. Morgan Jr June 9 1919
- USC&GS OCEANOGRAPHER OSS-26 Donated to the Coast and Geodetic Survey January 2 1930 by J. P. Morgan, Jr
- USS NATCHEZ PG-85 Reclassified Patrol Gunboat (PG) April 15 1942
- USS OCEANOGRAPHER AGS-3 Rerigged and outfitted as Survey Ship (AGS)
Built 1899 by T. S. Marvel Shipbuilding, Newburgh New York
Official Number: 127328
Acquired by U.S. Navy May 15 1917
Reacquired by U.S. Navy April 7 1942
Commissioned August 15 1942 - Decommissioned September 22 1944
Struck from Naval Register October 14 1944
Broken up for scrap
Conflicting History Data
NavSource and Wikipedia
both say the yacht was initially named "CORSAIR III".
Lloyd's Register of Yachts and Merchant Vessels of the United States both list the name only as "CORSAIR".
Note that this was the third CORSAIR owned by J. P. Morgan but the name was CORSAIR.
NavSource lists the builder as "W. & A. Fletcher Co., Hoboken, N.J." but this company only built the engines and boilers.
Both Wikipedia and Lloyd's correctly list the owner as "T. S. Marvel Shipbuilding, Newburgh New York".
This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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.
- 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 incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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.
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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 CORSAIR / NATCHEZ POSTMARKS REPORTED
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Locy Type |
1944-01-17 |
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Note:
Other Information
CORSAIR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
WWI Victory Medal
NAMESAKE - Former name retained...A pirate
OCEANOGRAPHER
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
NAMESAKE - Named for the student of the ocean and its phenomena
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