COURIER WTR 410

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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.

    Mobile Transmitting Facility Vessel
    Keel laid 25 January 1945 as Inter-Island Shuttle "DODDRIDGE"
    Renamed (Date unknown) "Coastal Messenger"
    Launched 1945

  1. COASTAL MESSENGER
    Commissioned 25 March 1945
    Operated by United Fruit Company and the Grace Line Inc.
    Acquired by U.S. Coast Guard 15 February 1952

  2. USCGC COURIER WAGR-410
    Commissioned 15 February 1952 - Decommissioned 22 August 1964
    Used as Coast Guard Training Vessel

  3. USCGC COURIER WTR-410
    Recommissioned as Training Vessel (WTR) 30 April 1966
    Decommissioned 4 October 1972

    Struck 31 January 1975
    Fate unknown

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 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.

  1. USCGC Courier WAGR / WTR-410 Covers Page 1     (1952-2015)

 


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.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date		 Thumbnail Link
To
Postmark Image		 Thumbnail Link
To
Cover Image

1st Commissioning February 15 1952 to August 22 1964


 

Locy Type 2

1953-03-10
to
1953-03-10

WAGR-410. Working with Voice Of America (VOA) as a mobile radio station.


 

Other Information

USCGC COURIER earned the Coast Guard Unit Commendation Ribbon during her career.

NAMESAKE - A message carrier.

 

 

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