LEADER MSO 490

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.

Aggressive Class Minesweeper Keel Laid 22 September 1953 as AM-490 - Launched 15 September 1954 Reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-490, 7 February 1955 USS LEADER MSO-490 Commissioned 16 November 1955 - Decommissioned 30 November 1970 Recommissioned "Special" 11 February 1972 Recommissioned 6 March 1972 - Decommissioned 12 December 1991 Struck from the Naval Register 18 March 1992 Sold for scrap 18 August 1994

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 Leader MSO-490 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

 

USPO Machine Postmark Long Beach, CA

1959-03-23

N/A

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

USPS Slogan Machine Postmark SC 294

1975-09-17

N/A

Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A guide, chief, commander; the head of a group.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Norman Wordlund.

 

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