ONONDAGA WPG 79

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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.

    165-foot "A" Class Cutter
    Keel Laid - Launched 2 August 1934

  1. USCGC ONONDAGA CGC-59
    Commissioned 11 September 1934

  2. USCGC ONONDAGA WPG-79
    Redesignated Gunboat (WPG) February 1942
    Decommissioned 24 July 1947

    Sold 7 December 1954

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  1. USCGC Onondaga WPG-79     (1934-1942)

 

Postmarks

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Locy Type F

USPO
Machine Cancel

Astoria OR

1935-12-24

Homeport - Astoria Oregon 1934-1941. From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A Native American people formerly inhabiting the eastern Finger Lakes region of west-central New York, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Onondaga are one of the original members of the Iroquois confederacy.

Two cutters of the US Coast Guard were named ONONDAGA - CGC ONONDAGA (1898) and USCGC ONONDAGO WPG-79.

 


 

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