KENT AP 28

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Steel-hulled Screw Steamer Built 1918 as a civilian passenger liner for Grace Lines of New York Launched November 1918 USS SANTA TERESA ID-3804 Commissioned November 1918 - Decommissioned October 1919 Returned to Grace Lines of New York 1919 SANTA TERESA (Commercial Service) Acquired in 1931 by Panama Mail SS Co., name retained KENT (Commercial Service) Acquired 1936 by Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. Baltimore, MD and renamed Acquired by U.S. Army Transportation Service April 1941 and renamed USAT ERNEST HINDS Transferred to U.S. Navy July 21 1941 USS KENT AP-28 Commissioned Transport (AP) 22 July 1941 Decommissioned 24 March 1942 Returned to U.S. Army Transportation Service and renamed USAT ERNEST HINDS Placed In Service March 1942 Struck from Navy Register 8 May 1943 Converted to Hospital Ship USAHS ERNEST HINDS Placed In Service September 1943 USAT ERNEST HINDS Reverted to Transport September 1945 Out of Service (Date unknown) Returned to War Shipping Administration Transferred to U.S. Public Health Service April 1946 Used as floating isolation ward at Jacksonville, FL Returned to Maritime Commission 14 April 1947 Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet Brunswick, GA Transferred 14 April 1948 to National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Virginia Sold 20 May 1957 to Bethlehem Steel Corp. for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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1. USS Santa Teresa ID-3804 Covers Page 1     (1919)
2. USS Kent AP-28 Covers Page 1     (1941)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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USS SANTA TERESA SP-3804

Post Office Established 17 Oct 1918 - Post Office Discontinued 16 September 1919

 

Locy Type 3 "PONTA DEL- / GADO AZORES"

1919-08-08

Sailors Mail. Postmark unreported in USCS Postmark Catalog, 5th Edition 2005.

 

Locy Type 9z

1919-06-07

Sailors Mail, Knights of Columbus envelope. Postmark unreported in USCS Postmark Catalog, 5th Edition 2005.

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S.S. SANTA TERESA

 

USPO Duplex Cancel Cristobal, C.Z. Grace Lines Purser's mark

1941-01-01

Note:

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USS KENT AP-28

 

Locy Type FDPS 3 (A-BBT)

1941-11-03

First Day of Postal Service

 

Locy Type FDPS 9v

1941-11-03

First Day of Postal Service, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Locy Type FDPS 9efw

1941-11-03

First Day of Postal Service, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson. Courtesy of the Bob Govern collection.

 

Locy Type 9efw

1941-11-28

Money Order Receipt, S/N 1. From the David Kent collection.

 

N/A

1941-11-28

N/A

US Postal Money Order, S/N 1. From the David Kent collection.

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USAHS ERNEST HINDS

 

N/A

Sept. 1943

N/A

Picture postcard

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ERNEST HINDS (Post Military)

 

N/A

c 1956

N/A

Picture postcard, from the David Kent collection.

 

Other Information

USS KENT/USAT ERNEST HINDS earned the following awards - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp); American Campaign Medal; Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE

SANTA TERESA - A suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

KENT - Former name retained

ERNEST HINDS - Major General Ernest Hinds, U. S. Army

 

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