VIXEN PY 4

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.

Patrol Yacht Steel-hulled, schooner-rigged, steam yacht Built 1896 at Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey, by Lewis Nixon JOSEPHINE (Private Yacht) Owned by Philadelphia financier Peter Arrell Brown Widener Purchased by U.S. Navy April 9 1898 and renamed USS VIXEN (Patrol Yacht) Commissioned April 11 1898 - Decommissioned March 30 1906 Loaned December 6 1907 to the New Jersey State Naval Militia Recommissioned April 2 1917 USS VIXEN PY-4 Designated (PY) July 17 1920 Decommissioned November 15 1922 Struck from Naval Register January 9 1923 TAMIAMI QUEEN (Commercial Service) Sold June 22 1923 to the Fair Oaks Steamship Corp. of New York and renamed COLLIER COUNTY (Commercial Service) Renamed 1924 PRINCESS MONTAGU (Commercial Service) Renamed 1928 Forced ashore and wrecked 27 September 1929 at Nassau during a gale Wreck was scuttled in June 1930

 

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.
 
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Other Information

NAMESAKE - A female fox

 

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