VANDALIA SCREW SLOOP
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.
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Laid down at the Boston Massachusetts Navy Yard in 1872
- USS VANDALIA (Screw Sloop of War) Commissioned 10 January 1876 - Decommissioned 14 October 1884
Recommissioned 15 February 1886
Ran aground on 16 March 1889 at Apia Harbor, Samoa, due to a typhoon
Damaged beyond repair, the ship was dismantled and the scrap donated to the Samoans
This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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.
- Covers Page 1 (1933)
Postmarks
This ship had no postmarks.
Other Information
USS Vandalia was a screw sloop launched in 1876. See the Wikipedia entry for the ship's history.
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