CHICOPEE AO 34

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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.

    Chicopee Class Fleet Oiler
    Keel Laid May 14 1941
    Launched September 6 1941 as ESSO TRENTON
    Operated by Standard Oil of New Jersey
    Acquired by U.S. Navy January 3 1942

  1. USS CHICOPEE AO-34
    Commissioned February 9 1942 - Decommissioned February 14 1946

    Struck from Naval Register 1946
    Returned to owners, Standard Oil of New Jersey, July 1 1946

  2. SS ESSO TRENTON (Civilian Tanker)
    Name restored 1946

  3. SS ESSO CHATTANOOGA (Civilian Tanker)
    Renamed 1947

  4. SS SAN FRANCISCO (Civilian Tanker)
    Purchased 1963 by Sea-Land for conversion to Container Ship and renamed

  5. SS SEA-LAND ADVENTURER (Commercial Service)
    Renamed 1978

  6. SS SEA ADVENTURER (Commercial Service)
    Renamed 1989

  7. SS MAERSK CONSTANZA (Commercial Service)
    Renamed 1999

  8. SS SEA ADVENTURER (Commercial Service)
    Name reverted 2000

  9. SS MAERSK KOPER (Commercial Service)
    Renamed 2002

  10. SS MSC KOPER (Commercial Service)
    Renamed (date unknown)

    Beached on February 2, 2010 and scrapped.

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. Covers Page 1     (1944)

 

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
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
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Locy Type
3z (BTB)

1944-04-22

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Other Information

Earned 4 Battle Stars (WWII)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal
Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1)
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3)
World War II Victory Medal
Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

NAMESAKE - A river in Massachusetts

 


 

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