NIANTIC CVE 46

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.

Bogue Class Escort Carrier Originally designated (AVG-46) - Redesignated (ACV-46) August 20 1942 Keel Laid January 5 1943 - Launched June 2 1943 Redesignated CVE-46 July 15 1943 NIANTIC CVE-46 Delivered to the US Navy on November 8th 1943 Transferred to the United Kingdom under the lend-lease program the same day HMS RANEE D-03 (British Naval Service) Commissioned November 8 1943 See HMS RANEE D-03 HMS RANEE R-323 (British Naval Service) Royal Navy designation possibly changed to R323 for service in the Pacific, late 1945? Decommissioned November 21 1946 NIANTIC CVE-46 Custody transferred back to US Navy November 21 1946 Struck from the Navy List January 22 1947 Sold June 9 1947 to the Waterman Steamship Corp. FRIESLAND (Commercial Service) Sold in 1948 to Dutch company Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd (Royal Rotterdam Lloyd) and renamed PACIFIC BREEZE (Commercial Service) Sold to United Overseas Marine Corp in 1967 (Panama flag) Operated by Orient Overseas Line (C Y Tung) Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan June 1974

 

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	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

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Other Information

This section lists any other information that might be relevant to this ship.

 

Additional Naming History Sources

VICTORY SHIPS Facebook Group has good history data and photos for the ship. Look for the entry on "PACIFIC BREEZE".

 

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