ALTAIR AD 11

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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.


    Altair Class Destroyer Tender
    Keel Laid December 18 1918
    Launched May 10 1919 as EDISTO
    Assigned to U.S. Navy June 1919 as ID No. 4156
    Transferred to U.S. Navy from USSB October 29 1921
    Renamed November 2 1921

  1. USS ALTAIR AD-11
    Commissioned December 6 1921 - Decommissioned June 21 1946

    Struck from Naval Register July 21 1946
    Sold March 9 1948 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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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     (1927-44)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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 / Killer Bar Text

Date From
to
Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Close-Up Image
Thumbnail Link To
Full Cover Image


 

Locy Type
3 (AC-TBB)

"SAN DIEGO /
CALIFORNIA"

1938-03-21

Cachet incorrectly designates ALTAIR as "AD-9", corrected on reverse
Russell A. Court


 

Locy Type
3 (AC-TBB)

"SAN DIEGO /
CALIFORNIA"

1940-03-14

Note:


 

Locy Type
3bps

"SAN DIEGO /
CALIFORNIA"

1927-02-14

Note:


 

Locy Type
3s

"MOTHERS DAY /
SAN DIEGO CAL"

USCS Catalog
Illustration
A-74a

1934-05-13

Mother's Day
F. R. Rice


 

Locy Type
3s

"SAN DIEGO /
CALIF."

USCS Catalog
Illustration
A-74a

1935-04-10

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell


 

Locy Type
3z (TTT)

1941-11-17

Pre-Wartime Censored (WWII) use


 

Locy Type
3z (BTT)

1944-03-27

Note:


 

Locy Type
6ep(2)

1940-11-24

Note:


 

Locy Type
7dr

1937-12-06

16th Anniversary
Frederick Horton


 

Locy Type
7dz

1943-02-19

Censored Wartime (WWII) use


 

Locy Type
8

1929-02-19

Official Business


 

Locy Type
9

1940-06-07

Facing Slip


 

Locy Type
9efw

1938-05-02

Note:


 

Locy Type
9x

1938-05-02

Note:

 

Other Information

Awards, Citations, and Campaign Ribbons...
American Defense Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Named for a first magnitude star in the constellation Aquila, in the northern Milky Way.

 


 

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