McCORMICK AG 118

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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.

    Clemson Class Destroyer
    Keel Laid 11 August 1919 - Launched 22 January 1920

  1. USS McCORMICK DD-223
    Commissioned 30 August 1920 - Decommissioned 14 October 1938
    Recommissioned 26 September 1939

  2. USS McCORMICK AG-118
    Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG) 30 June 1945
    Decommissioned 4 October 1945

    Struck from Naval Register 24 October 1945
    Sold 15 December 1946 for scrap

Lieutenant (j.g.) Alexander A. McCormack, USN

Naval Covers

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  1. USS McCormick DD-223 / AG-118 Covers Page 1    (1934-1945)

 

Postmarks

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1st Commissioning 30 August 1920 to 14 October 1938


 

Locy Type
3 (A-TBT)

"SAN DIEGO /
CALIFORNIA"

1938-05-04

DD-223


 

Locy Type
3s

"FLEET CRUISE /"

1934-09-24

DD-223


 

Locy Type
9(n)

USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. M-19

1932-06-03

DD-223


 

Locy Type
LDPS 3 (A-TBT)

"LAST DAY /
SAN DIEGO CAL"

1938-09-15

DD-223. Last Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Edward Hacker



2nd Commissioning 26 September 1939 to 4 October 1945


 

Locy Type
FDPS 3 (A-BBT)

"BALBOA /
CANAL ZONE"

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service


 

Locy Type
FDPS 9v

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.


 

Locy Type
FDPS 9x

1940-01-04

DD-223. First Day of Postal Service. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.


 

Locy Type
3 (A-BBT)

"COCO SOLO /
CANAL ZONE"

1940-02-19

DD-223


 

Locy Type
6ep (2)

1941-04-11

DD-223


 

Locy Type Fz

USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. CD-Z2

1945-06-06

DD-223


 

Locy Type P

"U S S / MC CORMICK"

1941-05-30

DD-223. Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Born in Chicago, IL, Alexander Agnew McCormick was the son of Chicago Evening Post editor and Chicago city alderman Alexander A. McCormick (better known as "A. A. McCormick") and his wife Maude Warner. He attended the University of Chicago High School, and entered Yale University with the Class of 1919. He enlisted as a Seaman (2nd Class) in the US Naval Aviation Forces on 16 April 1917 and trained at Buffalo, NY with the Aerial Coast Patrol Unit No. 2, which had been organized at Yale shortly after the United States declared war on Germany. He was commissioned in the US Naval Reserve Force as an ensign on 2 November 1917 and was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, FL, until 28 May 1918. He was assigned to Squadron 214 of the Royal Air Force and served in France. On 24 September 1918, Lieutenant (Junior Grade) McCormick received fatal injuries in battle while an aerial gunner with the Northern Bombing Group in a mission near Calais. Buried in the military cemetery at Calais, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. His remains now lie at the Somme American Cemetery, Bony, France.

The ships sponsor was Miss Katherine McCormick, sister of Lieutenant ( jg.) McCormick.

 


 

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