INAUGURAL AM 242

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.

Admirable Class Minesweeper
Keel Laid May 22 1944 - Launched October 1 1944


1. USS INAUGURAL AM-242
   Commissioned December 30 1944 - Decommissioned September 9 1946
   Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group
   Reclassified Fleet Minewseeper (Steel Hull) (MSF) February 7 1955, While in reserve
   
   Struck from Naval Register March 1 1967
   Became a museum hulk at St. Louis, MO 1968
   
   Sunk by river flooding September 1 1993

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. 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.

 

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

 

NO INAUGURAL POSTMARKS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

DATE FROM to DATE TO

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Other Information

INAUGURAL received two battle stars for World War II service

NAMESAKE - Pertaining to an inauguration

 

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