MULBERRY AN 27

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.

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship Keel Laid October 18 1940 - Launched March 26 1941 MULBERRY YN-22 Placed In Service as Yard Net Tender (YN) November 1 1941 USS MULBERRY YN-22 Commissioned December 19 1942 USS MULBERRY AN-27 Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN) January 20 1944 Decommissioned April 11 1960 Laid up in Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group Transferred to National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group ORION H-101 (Ecuadoran Naval Service) Transferred on loan, to Ecuador November 1965 and renamed Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown) Scrapped 1980

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).

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1. 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.
 
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Other Information

MULBERRY earned one battle star for Korean Service

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Korean Service Medal (1) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

NAMESAKE - A tree, of the genus morus, which bears an edible, usually dark purple, berrylike fruit

 

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