SAGITTARIUS AKN 2

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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.

    Indus Class Net Cargo Ship
    Keel Laid September 8 1943
    Launched September 30 1943 as J. FRED ESSARY
    Acquired by U.S. Navy December 8 1943

  1. USS SAGITTARIUS AKN-2
    Commissioned March 18 1944 - Decommissioned January 16 1946
    Laid up January 19 1946 in National Defense Reserve Fleet
    Name reverted to J. FRED ESSARY

    Struck from Naval Register February 7 1946
    Sold September 12 1972 to Issac Varela, Castellon, Spain for scrap

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     (1944-46)

 

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.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type
2z

1944-04-30

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Locy Type
REC'D

USCS Catalog
Illustration
S-79

1946-01-07

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Other Information

SAGITTARIUS earned 2 battle stars during World War II

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive -Okinawa) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - A southern constellation whose name means archer and which is depicted as a centaur shooting an arrow

 


 

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