THRASHER MSC 203

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.

Redwing Class Motor Minesweeper Keel Laid 1 April 1954 as AMS-203 Launched 6 October 1954 Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (MSC) 7 February 1955 USS THRASHER MSC-203 Commissioned 16 August 1955 - Decommissioned 1 August 1961 THRASHER MSC-203 Placed in service as a Reserve Training ship 1 August 1961 Placed out of service 1 May 1975 Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1975 RSS MERCURY M 102 Sold to Singapore 1 December 1975 and renamed Decommissioned 31 March 1993 Discarded in 1995

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. USS Thrasher MSC-203 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

 

USPO Machine Postmark Charleston, SC

1956-01-26

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

USPO Slogan Machine Postmark San Francisco CA

1964-06-03

Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A thrush like bird known as a singer and mimic.

 

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