BAILEY DD 269

Ship Name and Designation History

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USS BAILEY Destroyer No. 269
Commissioned June 27 1919
USS BAILEY DD-269
Designated (DD) July 17 1920 - Decommissioned June 15 1922
Recommissioned September 30 1939 - Decommissioned November 26 1940

Stricken from the NVR January 8 1941
HMS READING G-71
Transferred to Great Britain November 26 1940

Broken up for scrap July 1945

Naval Covers

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Covers Page 1 (1939-40)

Postmarks

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Postmark Type / Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Image

2nd Commissioning September 30 1939 to November 26 1940

Locy Type
FDPS 3r (A-BBT)

1940-01-08
to
1940-01-08

First Day of Postal Service

Locy Type
3r (A-BBT)

"GALVESTON /
TEXAS"

1940-05-19
to
1940-05-19

Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell

Locy Type
RECD

USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. CD-R1

1939-11-06
to
1939-11-06

Cachet is for the Recommissioning on Sept. 30, 1939, this cover was posted after that date. cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

Locy Type
LDPS 3r (A-BBT)

"NEW YORK / N.Y."

1940-10-17
to
1940-10-17

Last Day of Postal Service

Other Information

Transferred to Great Britain November 26 1940 a Famous Fifty Destroyer

NAMESAKE - Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey (April 12 1805 - February 10 1877)
Bailey entered the Navy as a Midshipman in January 1818. He was commended for energy, enterprise, and gallantry in the Mexican-American War. He made Captain in 1855. In July, 1862, he was made Commodore, and in July, 1866, Rear Admiral on the retired list. In 1861 Captain Bailey was in command of COLORADO, in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. Later he took command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron. He was instrumental in developing a primitive "thruster system," the principles of which are still in use today. A pipe could direct water to one side of the ship or another, which caused the ship to be able to move with more agility in the high seas. Today, ships use this principle in thruster systems. Rear Admiral Bailey died at Washington, D. C., February 10 1877

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