ARBUTUS WLM 203

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.

ARBUTUS (Coastal Tender)
Built for the US Lighthouse Service 1933
USCGC ARBUTUS
US Lighthouse Service merged, became US Coast Guard 1935
USS ARBUTUS WAGL-203
USN custody during wartime 1941-1946
USCGC ARBUTUS WAGL-203
Back to USCG Custody 1946
USCGC ARBUTUS WLM-203
Redesignated January 1 1966 - Decommissioned March 27 1967
Sold on April 28 1969

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.

Covers Page 1 (1943,1966)

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

USN custody 1941 to 1946

USPO
Machine Cancel

Newport RI

1943-03-31

N/A

USS ARBUTUS - Sailor's Mail

Locy Type 2z

1945-05-03

N/A

USS ARBUTUS - Sailor's Mail

USCG custody 1946 to 1967

USPO Slogan
Machine Cancel

Staten Island NY

1962-07-09

N/A

WAGL-203. Cacheted. From the John Young collection.

USPO
Machine Cancel

Staten Island NY

1966-06-06

N/A

WLM-203. From the John Young collection.

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Any of 20 species of evergreen shrubs or trees of the heath family found in southern Europe and western North America.

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