ESSEX (III)

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.

Adams Class Screw Steamer Built 1875-76 USS ESSEX Commissioned October 3 1876 - Decommissioned May 1889 ESSEX Placed In Service as Training Ship 1893-1903 Assigned to Ohio Naval Militia to train Naval Reservist 1904-16 Reassigned to Ninth Naval District from 1917-26 to train Naval Reserve personnel ESSEX IX-10 Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) July 17 1920 Assigned to Minnesota Naval Militia from August 1927 to October 27 1930 to train Naval Reserve personnel Struck from Naval Register October 27 1930 Sold December 23 1930 to Klatzky Iron and Metal Company Partially dismantled and towed out into Lake Superior October 13 1931 Set afire October 14 1931

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

 

Lansdowne PA Duplex

1901-07-30 to 1901-08-01

Incoming mail to ship at Navy Yard NY
Back Brooklyn NY machine

 

Other Information

ESSEX participated in the following assignments...
North Atlantic Squadron - 1876 - cruised the west coast of Africa
South Atlantic Squadron - 1878
Pacific Station - November 1881 to December 1882
Asiatic Station - 1882

 

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