WESTERN COMET ID 3569

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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.

    Freighter
    Built 1918 as ARGONNE by the Northwest Steel Co., Portland, OR originally for the French Compagnie Generale
    Completed by the Willamette Iron Works of Portland
    Launched July 23 1918
    Delivered to the United States Shipping Board (USSB) 21 September 1918
    Acquired by U.S. Navy September 22 1918

  1. USS WESTERN COMET ID-3569
  2. Commissioned September 22 1918
    Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS)
    Decommissioned March 1 1919
    Returned to United States Shipping Board (USSB) 1919

  3. WESTERN COMET (Commercial Service)
  4. Ownership retained by USSB. No references as to which company operated the ship under contract.
    Offical Number: 216910
    Abandoned 1933

    Fate unknown

 

Naval Covers

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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 incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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.


 

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