FESSENDEN DER 142 - Revision history

GregCiesielski at 05:07, 20 February 2019

2019-02-20T05:07:29Z

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	DE-142. Last Day of Postal Service.		DE-142. Last Day of Postal Service. From the Bob Govern collection.
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GregCiesielski: Updated the page and added 1 postmark/cover

2019-02-20T01:48:57Z

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JohnG3938 at 16:53, 12 May 2018

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JonBurdett: added one cover

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added one cover

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	range for covers on that page.		range for covers on that page.
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	<li>[[USS FESSENDEN DER-142_Covers_Page_1 \|~~Fessenden~~ Covers Page 1 ]]     (~~1954~~)</li>		<li>[[USS FESSENDEN DER-142_Covers_Page_1 \|Covers Page 1 ]]     (1945-54)</li></ol>
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	<th align="center" width="~~320~~">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark Image</th>		<th align="center" width="350">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark Image</th>
	<th align="center" width="120">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Cover Image</th>		<th align="center" width="120">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Cover Image</th>
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	<h4>1st Commissioning August 25 1943 to June 24 1946</h4>		<h4>1st Commissioning August 25 1943 to June 24 1946</h4>
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			Locy Type<br/>2z
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			1945-02-08
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			As DE-142
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JonBurdett: notes

2010-05-05T16:56:29Z

notes

New page

<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.
<table width="90%">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<ol>Edsall Class Type FMR Destroyer Escort<br/>
Keel Laid January 4 1943 - Launched March 9 1943<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS FESSENDEN DE-142'''<br/>
Commissioned August 25 1943 - Decommissioned June 24 1946<br/>
Reclassified Radar Picket Escort (DER) October 1 1951<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS FESSENDEN DER-142'''<br/>
Recommissioned March 4 1952 - Decommissioned June 30 1960<br/><br/>
Struck from Naval Register September 1 1966<br/>
Sunk as target December 20 1967 off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
</ol></td>
<td align="center" width="220" valign="top">
[[Image:FESSENDEN DER PATCH.jpg|thumb|center|125px]]
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>

<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.
<ol>
<li>[[USS FESSENDEN DER-142_Covers_Page_1 |Fessenden Covers Page 1 ]]     (1954)</li>
</ol>
<p> </p>

<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.
<br/> <br/>
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the
existing example.



<br/> <br/><table width="95%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
<tr><th align="center" valign="center" width="140">
Postmark Type<br/>---<br/>Killer Bar Text
</th><th align="center" valign="center" width="100">
Date From<br/>to<br/>Date To</th>
<th align="center" width="320">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark Image</th>
<th align="center" width="120">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Cover Image</th>
</tr></table>









<hr/>
<h4>2nd Commissioning March 4 1952 to June 30 1960</h4>




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<tr><td align="center" valign="center" width="140">
Locy Type<br/>2
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1954-07-15
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[[Image:JonBurdett fessenden der142 19540715.jpeg|thumb|center|100px]]
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As DER-142


<p> </p>

<h3>Other Information</h3>
FESSENDEN received two battle stars for World War II service<br/><br/>
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...<br/>
Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal - European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 2 stars - WWII Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE''' - Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6 1866 - July 22 1932)<br/>
At the age of fourteen, Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec granted Fessenden a mathematics mastership. In late 1886, Fessenden began working directly for Thomas Edison at the inventor's new Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. Fessenden quickly made major advances, especially in receiver design, as he worked to develop audio reception of signals. From 1890 to 1900, Fessenden worked at several manufacturing companies and became a professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University in 1892 and then chair of the electrical engineering department of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893. By 1900, Fessenden was working for the United States Weather Bureau where he evolved the heterodyne principle where two signals combined produce a third audible tone. While there, Fessenden, experimenting with a high-frequency spark transmitter, successfully transmitted speech on December 23 1900 over a distance of about one mile, which appears to have been the first audio radio transmission.<br/>
On December 21 1906, Fessenden made an extensive demonstration of the new alternator-transmitter at Brant Rock, showing its utility for point-to-point wireless telephony, including interconnecting his stations to the wire telephone network. A few days later, two additional demonstrations took place, which appear to be the first audio radio broadcasts of entertainment and music ever made to a general audience. On the evening of December 24 1906, Fessenden used the alternator-transmitter to send out a short program from Brant Rock, which included his playing the song "O Holy Night" on the violin and reading a passage, Luke Chapter 2, from the Bible. On December 31, a second short program was broadcast. The main audience for both these transmissions was an unknown number of shipboard radio operators along the Atlantic Coast. Although now seen as a landmark, these two broadcasts were barely noticed at the time and soon forgotten. His great contributions in the field of radio were of marked benefit not only to the Navy but to all seamen. He died July 22 1932, at his home on Bermuda




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