DEFIANCE ID 3327

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.

Freighter Built 1918 as "WAR OCEAN" Completed as "DEFIANCE" Acquired by US Navy 6 September 1918 USS DEFIANCE ID-3327 Commissioned 22 March 1918 - Decommissioned 1 March 1919 Transferred to the Shipping Board for disposal PAN DELAWARE (Commercial Service) Sold 1938 to National Bulk Carriers, Inc., converted to tanker and renamed INGRID (Commercial Service) Sold 1947 to Partrederiet Ingrid of Oslo, Norway and renamed GIACINTA FASSIO (Commercial Service) Sold 1949 to Fassio Soc. Anon di Navigazione of Genoa, Italy and renamed EMMA FASSIO (Commercial Service) Renamed 1959 Scrapped 1960 at LaSpezia, Italy

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Defiance ID-3327 Covers Page 1     (1918)

 

Postmarks

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

 

USPO Duplex Postmark Balboa, Canal Zone

1918-09-30

N/A

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE...Unyielding resistance.

 

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