VULCAN

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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.

    Screw Steamer
    Built 1884 by American Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, PA

  1. CHATHAM (Commercial Service)
  2. Owned and operated by Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Co., Baltimore, MD
    Acquired by the US Navy, 2 May 1898
    Renamed "VULCAN" and converted to the US Navy's first Repair Ship

  3. USS VULCAN (Repair Ship)
  4. Commissioned 31 May 1898 - Decommissioned 12 January 1899

  5. CHATHAM (Commercial Service)
  6. Sold 3 July 1899 back to Merchant's & Miner's Transportation Co. and original name restored
    Believed to have been scrapped in 1911

 

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 Vulcan 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.


 

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Duplex Cancel

City Unreadable

1898-07-28

USS Vulcan served in Cuban waters during the Spanish-American War.
Backstamped with Chatham MA RECD CDS dated 2 Aug 1898 and Mansfield MA RECD CDS dated Aug 1898. From the Gary B. Weiss collection.

 

Other Information

USS VULCAN earned the Spanish Campaign Medal during her Naval career.

Three ships of the US Navy have borne the name VULCAN - USS Vulcan, USS Vulcan AC-5 and USS Vulcan AR-5

 


 

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