MERCER ID 3837

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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.

    Freighter
    Built in 1918 by the Federal Shipbuilding Co., Hackensack River (Kearney), NJ
    Acquired by the Navy upon completion 16 January 1919

  1. USS MERCER ID-3837
  2. Commissioned 16 January 1919
    Decommissioned 26 May 1919
    Returned to the United States Shipping Board 3 June 1919

  3. EMPIRE KANGAROO (Commercial Service)
  4. Transferred to Great Britain in 1941 and renamed

  5. PARTHENIA (Commercial Service)
  6. Renamed in 1946

  7. ERMINIA MAZZELLA (Commercial Service)
  8. Transferred to Italian registry in 1949 and renamed

  9. PINA ONORATO (Commercial Service)
  10. Renamed in 1951

    Scrapped in 1958 at La Spezia, Italy

 

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 Mercer 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
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
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Postmark Image
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US Army
"Base Censor"
Postmark

1919-05-01

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A merchant name retained.

Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name MERCER - USS Mercer ID-3837 and USS Mercer APL-39.

 


 

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