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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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Iron-hulled Steam Tug<br/>
Built by Neafie and Levy, Philadelphia, PA<br/>
Completed for W.G. Coyle, New Orleans, LA as the steam tug '''C. G. Coyle''' (ON 3556), 1892<br/>
Purchased by the Navy for $82,500, 19 April 1898<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS CHOCTAW'''<br/>Commissioned 19 April 1898 - Decommissioned 26 August 1898<br/>
Recommissioned 15 June 1899 - Decommissioned 15 July 1902<br/>
Recommissioned and placed in service, 1904<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS WICOMICO'''<br/>Renamed 20 February 1918<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS WICOMICO YT-26'''<br/>Designated District Harbor Tug (YT) 17 July 1920<br/>
Sunk in collision with [[GOFF_DD_247_ | USS Goff DD-247]] at NOB Norfolk, 15 February 1940<br/><br/>
Struck from the Naval Register 27 February 1940<br/>
Salvaged 04 April 1940 and subsequently scrapped
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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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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
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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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Postmark<br/>Date</th>
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Locy Type 3r (A-BBT)<br/><br/>"WICOMICO /<br/>SUNK NOB VA"<br/><br/>[[GOFF_DD_247_ | USS Goff<br/>DD-247]]
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1940-02-15
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N/A
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Contributed by Laurie Bernstein.
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
USS WICOMICO earned the World War I Victory Medal and the American Defense Service Medal (w/ Fleet clasp) during her Naval Career.<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE'''- A Native American tribe, some of whose members lived in Virginia’s Tidewater region.
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