WOODPECKER MSC 209

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 23 June 1954 as AMS-209 Launched 7 January 1955 Reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper (MSC) 7 February 1955 USS WOODPECKER MSC-209 Commissioned 3 February 1956 Decommissioned 15 December 1970 at Seattle, WA WOODPECKER MSC-209 Placed in service as a Naval Reserve training ship 15 December 1970 Struck from the Navy Register 1 July 1976 HMFS KIKAU MSC 204 Sold to the Republic of Fiji and renamed Sunk as an artificial reef in 1990.

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 Woodpecker MSC-209 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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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2 17022 Branch Naha, Okinawa

1963-05-25

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.

 

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