ALGONQUIN WPG 75

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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.

    165-foot A Class Cutter
    Keel Laid - Launched July 25 1934

  1. USCGC ALGONQUIN
    Commissioned October 20 1934
    Transferred to U.S. Navy July 1 1941

  2. USS ALGONQUIN WPG-75
    Redesignated Gunboat (PG) 1941
    Returned to U.S. Coast Guard 1945

  3. USCGC ALGONQUIN WPG-75
    Decommissioned April 18 1947

    Sold as excess July 13 1948

Naval Covers

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  1. Covers Page 1     (1946)

 

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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USPO Type 9

Portland ME

1946-08-21

N/A

The cover also has two examples of the cutter's straightline markings.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - The cutter Algonquin was named for one of the most populous and widespread North American Native groups, with tribes originally numbering in the hundreds and speaking several related dialects. They inhabited most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean and, bypassing select territories held by the Sioux and Iroquois, the latter of whom had driven them out of their territory along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers in the 17th and 18th centuries.

 


 

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