VALCOUR AGF 1

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.

Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender Keel Laid December 21 1942 - Launched June 5 1943 USS VALCOUR AVP-55 Commissioned July 5 1946 USS VALCOUR AGF-1 Reclassified Misc. Command Flagship (AGF) December 15 1965 Decommissioned June 17 1973 Struck from Naval Register June 17 1973 Sold May 1977 for scrap

Naval Covers

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1. Valcour Covers Page 1     (1946-62)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type FDC 2(n)

1946-07-05

As AVP-55
First Day in Commission

 

Locy Type 2(n) (AVP) 1946

1946-08-28

As AVP-55

 

Locy Type 2(n) (AVP) 1946

1946-12-25

As AVP-55
Christmas Day.

 

Locy Type 2(n) (AVP) 1962

1962-04-30

As AVP-55

 

Locy Type 2(n) (AGF)

1967-01-05

As AGF-1
Christmas cachet by Albert O. (Bert) Wickart

 

Locy Type 2r

1954-12-11

As AVP-55
Launching of USS Forrestal CVA-59, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Locy Type 2t(nu)

1949-11-02

As AVP-55

 

Other Information

VALCOUR earned the Navy Expeditionary Medal and the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - An island in Lake Champlain, southeast of Plattsburgh, N.Y. A crucial naval engagement took place off that island on 11 October 1776, when a Continental force under General Benedict Arnold met a superior British fleet. Although the British bested Arnold's makeshift flotilla, the delay forced upon the enemy by the long time it took them to construct vessels for service on the lake resulted in a year's postponement of their attempt to invade the colonies—a year in which the Americans prepared to meet the British Army. When they finally started their thrust down the Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Hudson River corridor in the fall of 1777, the English Army was defeated and captured in the Battle of Saratoga.

 

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