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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.
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<h3>Ship Name and Designation History</h3>
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during 
its lifetime.
The list is in chronological order.
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Boston Class Sloop-of-War<br/>
Keel Laid 1825 - Launched 1828<br/><br/> 
<li>'''USS VANDALIA'''<br/>Commissioned 6 November 1828 - Decommissioned 19 December 1831<br/>
Recommissioned 4 October 1832 - Decommissioned 24 August 1834<br/> 
Recommissioned 31 December 1834 - Decommissioned 23 November 1839<br/> 
Recommissioned 3 February 1842 - Decommissioned 30 April 1845<br/>
Recommissioned 9 August 1849 - Decommissioned 14 October 1852<br/> 
Recommissioned 14 February 1853 - Decommissioned 30 September 1856<br/>
Recommissioned 11 November 1857 - Decommissioned 6 January 1861<br/>
Recommissioned 8 November 1861 - Decommissioned 4 February 1863<br/>
Assigned to duty as a receiving and guard ship at Portsmouth, NH 17 October 1864<br/> 
Broken up at Portsmouth NH between 1870 and 1872
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<h3>Naval Covers</h3>
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.
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<li><!-- [[VANDALIA_Covers_Page_1 | -->USS Vandalia Covers Page 1 <!-- ]] -->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(DATE RANGE)</li>
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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
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.
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>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the
existing example.

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Postmark<br/>Date</th>
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USPO<br/>CDS Postmark<br/><br/>Norfolk, VA
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1833-08-09
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The year date was obtained from the heading of the stampless folded letter.
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
'''NAMESAKE''' - A city in Illinois on the Kaskaskia River. Vandalia was the state capital from 1820 to 1839 and today is the seat of Fayette County. The origin of the name is uncertain, but the name probably is derived from the Germanic Vandal tribe. Other explanations of the name hold that it is a latinization of a Dutch family name or that it refers to a small Indian tribe of the early 19th century.<br/><br/>
Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name VANDALIA - USS Vandalia (1828) and [[VANDALIA_II_ | USS Vandalia (1876)]]
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