INDEPENDENCE Ship-of-the-Line

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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.

    Ship of The Line
    Launched June 22 1814

  1. USS INDEPENDENCE
    Commissioned August 15 1815 - Placed In Ordinary 1822-36
    Recommissioned March 26 1837 – Decommissioned 1840
    Placed In Ordinary 1840
    Recommissioned August 4 1846 – Decommissioned May 30 1849
    Recommissioned July 7 1849 – Decommissioned July 3 1852
    Placed In Ordinary July 3 1852
    Recommissioned September 1854 – Decommissioned October 2 1857

  2. USS INDEPENDENCE - Receiving Ship
    October 2 1857 – November 3 1912

    Struck from Naval Register September 3 1913
    Sold November 28 1914
    Burned September 20 1915 to recover her metal fittings

 

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 incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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. USS Independence Covers Page 1    (1912)

 

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.


 

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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
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Postmark Image
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6th Commissioning October 2 1857 to November 3 1912


 

Boston, MA
(The origin of the letter)

1837-05-14
(The date of the letter)

N/A

Note:


 

Locy Type
1asy ("RECD")

1908 year date

1908-12-03

From the Steve Shay collection.


 

Locy Type 1s

1908 year date

1908-12-14

Notes:


 

Locy Type 1s

1909 year date

1909-03-16

Note:


 

Locy Type 1s

1909 year date

1911-02-13

Picture postcard of the Astronomy Observatory near San Jose, CA.


 

Locy Type 1s

1909 year date

1911-02-13

Picture postcard of the Astronomy Observatory near San Jose, CA.


 

Locy Type 1s

1909 year date

1912-03-11

Picture postcard


 

Locy Type P
1asy ("RECD") removed

1909 year date

1909-08-07

From the Bob Govern collection.




 

N/A

N/A

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Painting of the USS INDEPENDENCE

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Freedom of control by others; self-government

 


 

If you have images or information to add to this page, then either contact the Curator or edit this page yourself and add it. See Editing Ship Pages for detailed information on editing this page.

 


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