NCMSysop: updated ship names section

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	Keel Laid - Launched 15 August 1859<br/><br/>		Keel Laid - Launched 15 August 1859<br/><br/>
	<li>'''USS PENSACOLA'''<br/>		<li>'''USS PENSACOLA''' (Screw Steamer)</li>
	Commissioned (Partial) - December 5, 1859 - Decommissioned 31 January 1860<br/>		Commissioned (Partial) - December 5, 1859 - Decommissioned 31 January 1860<br/>
	Commissioned (Full) 16 September 1861 - Decommissioned 29 April 1864<br/>		Commissioned (Full) 16 September 1861 - Decommissioned 29 April 1864<br/>

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	<li>'''USS PENSACOLA'''<br/>		<li>'''USS PENSACOLA'''<br/>

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'''1859 - USS PENSACOLA (Training Ship)'''<br/>March 3, 1857 - Authorized by Congress, April 6, 1858 - Contract let to Messrs Dickerson and Sickels, August 15, 1859 - Launched at the Warrington Navy Yard near Pensacola, Florida, December 5, 1859 - Commissioned (Sponsor: Miss Margaret Mallory), December 21, 1859 - Sailed from Pensacola to Washington Navy Yard for machinery installation, September 16, 1861 - Commissioned in full, December 27, 1861 - River trials with President Lincoln and Commodore Dahlgren embarked, January 11, 1862 - Sea trials, January 24, 1862 - Anchored at Hampton Roads, Virginia, February 3, 1862 - Ran aground on Ledbury Reef, February 11, 1862 - Arrived at Key West, Florida, March 1, 1862 - Arrived at Ship Island, Mississippi, March 24, 1862 - Arrived off the Southwest Passes of the Mississippi River
April 24, 1862: Passing of the forts below New Orleans on the Mississippi River, April 25, 1862 - Anchored in front of New Orleans, April 27, 1862 - Commenced operations as station ship at New Orleans, April 7, 1864 - Departed New Orleans for Hampton Roads via Pensacola, April 29, 1864 - Decommissioned for installation of new machinery at New York Navy Yard, August 16, 1866 - Recommissioned and sailed for duty with the Pacific Squadron, January 27, 1875 - Cruise to Hawaii carrying King Kalakaua, July 12, 1883 -Departed Callao, Peru on an around the world cruise, May 5, 1884 - Arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, May 23, 1884 – Decommissioned, April 4, 1885 - Recommissioned under the command of Captain George Dewey, March 7, 1888 - Dewey relieved, March 24, 1888 - Remains of General Jose Antonio Paez transported to Venezuela, October 16, 1889 - Departed Brooklyn for solar eclipse expedition, December 8, 1889 - Anchored at Cape Ledo, Angola for observation of eclipse to occur on December 22, 1889, May 23, 1890 - Returned to New York, August 1890 - Sailed for duty in the Pacific, August 10, 1891 - Arrived in San Francisco, April 18, 1892 – Decommissioned, November 22, 1898 - Recommissioned as a training ship at Goat Island (later called Yerba Buena Island) near San Francisco, May 31, 1899 – Decommissioned, July 14, 1901 - Recommissioned as a receiving ship at Goat Island, December 6, 1911 - Final decommissioning, December 23, 1911 - Stricken from the Naval Register, May 1912 - Burned and sunk near Hunter’s Point in San Francisco Bay.<br/>
Research and items courtesy of Glenn Smith.



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<tr><th valign="center" align="center" width="60">Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image
</th><th valign="center" align="center" width="320">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Full Cover Front Image
</th><th valign="center" align="center" width="60">Thumbnail Link To<br/>Postmark or Back Image
</th><th valign="center">Primary Date<br/>Postmark Type<br/>Killer Bar Text
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[[Image:GregCiesielski_Pensacola_USTS_1883_1_Front.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]
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N/A
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1883-01-10<br/>Columbia CDS
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Sailor Mail
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Postal card from Columbia dated 1883




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[[Image:GregCiesielski_Pensacola_USTS_1883_1_Back.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]
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N/A
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1883-01-10<br/>Columbia CDS
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Sailor Mail
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Postal card from Columbia dated 1883




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[[Image:GregCiesielski_Pensacola_USTS_1898_1_Front.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]
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C. 1898
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Picture Postcard
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Postcard shows apprentice seamen returning from a "cruise" aboard USTS PENSACOLA.




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NCMSysop: updated ship names section

GregCiesielski at 04:53, 31 January 2016

GregCiesielski: Reorganized the ships postmark page and added 2 covers

GregCiesielski: Added 2 covers