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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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<ol>Wickes (Little) Class Destroyer<br/>
Keel Laid August 25 1917 -Launched December 16 1917<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS SIGOURNEY Destroyer No. 81'''<br/>
Commissioned May 15 1918<br/>
Placed into reserve at Philadelphia November 1 1919<br/><br/>
<li>'''USS SIGOURNEY DD-81'''<br/>
Designated (DD) July 17 1920<br/>
Decommissioned June 26 1922<br/>
Recommissioned August 23 1940 - Decommissioned November 26 1940<br/><br/>
<li>'''HMS NEWPORT G-54''' (British Naval Service)<br/>
Transferred to Great Britain November 26 1940 and renamed ([[Famous Fifty|Famous Fifty]])<br/><br/>
Struck from Naval Register January 8 1941<br/>
Scrapped 1947
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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> Covers Page 1     (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 Type<br/>---<br/>Killer Bar Text
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Postmark<br/>Date</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>
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NO SIGOURNEY POSTMARKS<br/>AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME
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DATE FROM
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DATE TO
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
'''NAMESAKE''' - James Butler Sigourney<br/>
Sigourney was appointed Midshipman on January 16 1809. He served in WASP and then became sailing master of NAUTILUS. He was captured with his ship shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812; and, after his exchange had been effected, he was placed in command of ASP, a schooner fitted out to defend the Chesapeake Bay. On July 14 1813, ASP was attacked by three British barges but succeeded in driving them off. On a second attack, however, ASP was boarded, and Sigourney was killed at his post on deck




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