WAHKIAKUM COUNTY LST 1162

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.

LST-1156 Terrebonne Parish Class Landing Ship Tank Keel Laid July 21 1952 - Launched January 23 1953 USS LST-1162 Commissioned August 13 1953 USS WAHKIAKUM COUNTY LST-1162 Named July 1 1955 Decommissioned October 16 1970 Transferred to Military Sealift Command (MSC) USNS WAHKIAKUM COUNTY T-LST-1162 Placed In Service April 10 1972 - Out of Service November 11 1973 Struck from Naval Register November 11 1973 Laid up July 29 1992 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group Sold June 22 2005 to ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX for scrap

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     (1965-70)

 

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

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1965-12-28

Note:

 

Locy Type LDC 2(n+)

1970-10-16

Last Day in Commission

 

Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Thailand (May 16 1962-Aug 10 1962) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba (Oct 24 1962-Dec 31 1962), 1-Dominican Republic (Apr 18 1965-Sep 21 1966)

NAMESAKE - A county in Washington

 

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