COLORADO

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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.

    Screw Frigate
    Launched June 19 1856

  1. USS COLORADO
    Commissioned March 13 1858
    Placed in ordinary August 6 1858
    Recommissioned June 3 1861
    Assigned to Gulf Blockading Squadron
    Decommissioned June 28 1862
    Recommissioned November 10 1862 - Decommissioned February 18 1864
    Recommissioned September 1 1864
    Assigned to North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
    Decommissioned February 3 1865
    Recommissioned May 25 1865
    Assigned to European Squadron as Flagship
    Placed in ordinary September 7 1867
    Recommissioned February 15 1870
    Assigned to Asiatic Station as Flagship
    Decommissioned March 25 1873
    Recommissioned December 2 1873
    Assigned to North Atlantic Station
    Decommissioned June 8 1875
    Assigned as Receiving Ship at New York Navy Yard from 1876 - 1884

    Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown)
    Sold February 14 1885

    Fate unknown

Naval Covers

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.

  1. Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

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


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image



2nd Commissioning June 3 1861 to June 28 1862


 

Bostan MA CDS / PAID

1862-02-10

No Image

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3rd Commissioning November 10 1862 to February 18 1864



 

U. S. SHIP

c1863

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7th Commissioning December 2 1873 to June 8 1875


 

Undecipherable
postmark

1874-03-04

Ship's Marking, addressed to ships chaplains family member. Cover courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.


 

Undecipherable
postmark

1874-03-04

Chaplain's Marking, addressed to ships chaplains family member. Cover courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.


 

Mergersburgh PA
CDS

1884-02-28

Letter addressed to ship while Receiving Ship at New York
Back New York Rec'd 02-29-84...Late arrival Train Detention

 

Other Information

USS COLORADO earned the Civil War Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - The Colorado River

 


 

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