HANNIBAL AG 1
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.
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Built 1898 as Collier "JOSEPH HOLLAND"
- USS HANNIBAL Collier
Commissioned June 7 1898 - Decommissioned August 15 1911
- USS HANNIBAL Survey Ship
Recommissioned October 16 1911 - Decommissioned November 1 1919
- USS HANNIBAL AG-1
Recommissioned February 9 1921 as Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG)
Decommissioned August 20 1944
Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown)
Sunk March 1945 as bombing target
Acquired by U.S. Navy April 16 1898
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- Hannibal Covers Page 1 (1913-43)
Postmarks
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Recommissioned October 16 1911 - Decommissioned November 1 1919
Post Office Established March 1912 - Post Office Disestablished August November 1 1919
* SURVEY SHIP *
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Locy Type 1z |
1918-03-07 |
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Passed By Censor. Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.
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1913-02-17 |
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Locy Type 3 |
1913-10-24 |
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Locy Type 3 |
1919-04-07 |
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Locy Type 9v |
1916-12-26 |
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Registered Use. Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.
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Censor Marking |
1917-08-13 |
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Type 3 Postmark (H-10) utilized as a censor marking. Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.
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Censor Marking |
1918-03-07 |
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Private, Fancy Censor marking. Courtesy of the Jim Myerson collection.
3rd Commissioning February 9 1921 to August 20 1944
Post Office Reestablished January 17 1921 - Post Office Disestablished August 20 1944
*Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG)*
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Locy Type |
1933-08-26 |
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Cachet Sponsored by "Capt. Walter M. Gearty Post 315, American Legion" for the State Convention of the American Legion in Pennsylvania. Russell N. Worman's return address is on the reverse.
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1935-10-12 |
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Columbus Day, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson
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1937-09-06 |
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Labor Day. Cachet by C. Wright Richell. Note inside the cover from Tazewell G. Nicholson.
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1937-09-06 |
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Labor Day. Note from Tazewell G. Nicholson, Sept. 6 1937 cover.
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1941-05-20 |
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Cachet by Leonard Borkowski
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1931-08-26 |
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1939-xx-07 |
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1925-01-16 |
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1934-03-12 |
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1943-06-16 |
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1936-12-25 |
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1932-07-04 |
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Independence Day
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1931-09-18 |
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Locy Type F |
1935-10-27 |
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Navy Day. Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth
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Locy Type F |
1935-10-27 |
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Navy Day. Cachet by Roland E. Hopkins
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1939-07-29 |
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Ship's Seal embossed
Other Information
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Spanish Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Escort Clasp) - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
NAMESAKE - Hannibal (249 B.C. - 183 B.C.)
Hannibal was brought up by his father in undying hatred of Rome. During the Second Punic War, he led an army from the Carthaginian colony in Spain across the Alps into Italy, defeating every army sent to oppose him. Hannibal maintained himself in the Italian peninsula for 15 years without support from home ; but when Carthage was threatened with invasion in 203 B.C., he returned to Africa. He was defeated in the Battle of Zama 202 B.C., and soon was driven into exile. He died as the result of suicidal poisoning.
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