WEEHAWKEN CM 12
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.
Built 1920 as the car ferry "SS ESTRADA PALMA" Acquired by the US Navy June 15 1942 Converted to a minelayer and renamed July 18 1942 |
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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).
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- Covers Page 1 (1944-45)
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.
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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
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Locy Type |
1944-04-12 |
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Official Business
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Locy Type |
1945-07-17 |
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Registered Official Business
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Locy Type |
1945-07-17 |
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Registered Official Business
Other Information
USS WEEHAWKEN earned two battle stars during World War II. She served in the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater.
NAMESAKE - A township in Hudson County, N.J., seven miles northeast of Jersey City. The name was originally an Algonquin Indian term and later changed by folk usage to a pseudo-Dutch form. Its exact meaning is unclear, but variously translated as "place of gulls, "rocks that look like trees," "maize land " "at the end" (of the Palisades) and "field lying along the Hudson. Weehawken was the site of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on 11 July 1804.
There have been three ships of the US Navy named WEEHAWKEN - USS Weehawken (Monitor 1862), USS Weehawken CM-12 and USS Weehawken YTB-776.
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