PROSERPINE ARL 21

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.

Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship Keel Laid October 2 1944 Launched December 28 1944 as Tank Landing Ship (LST) USS LST-1116 Placed in Reduced Commission January 9 - February 15 1945 USS PROSERPINE ARL-21 Commissioned Landing Craft Repair Ship (ARL) May 31 1945 Decommissioned January 18 1947 Assigned to Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group Recommissioned October 27 1950 - Decommissioned May 24 1956 Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Boston Group Struck from Naval Register January 1 1960 McLEOD (Commercial Service) Sold (Date unknown) and renamed Fate unknown

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 does not 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    (1946-51)

 

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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2nd Commissioning May 31 1945 to May 31 1946

 

Locy Type 2# (Br. #15933)

1946-03-29

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3rd Commissioning October 27 1950 to May 24 1955

 

Locy Type FDPS 2

1950-12-07

First Day Postal Service

 

Locy Type 2

1951-01-19

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Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

NAMESAKE - Latinized form of Persephone, from Greek mythology; the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Hades (Pluto) and made his wife

 

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