CAMANGA AG 42

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.

Cargo Ship Built 1918 Launched March 27 1918 Completed June 1918 and requisitioned by United States Shipping Board Assigned the Identification Number ID-3496 Acquired by U.S. Navy October 7 1918 USS POINT BONITA ID-3496 Commissioned October 7 1918 - Decommissioned April 7 1919 SS SAN PEDRO (Merchant Service) Sold 1920 to The Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and renamed SS OLIVER OLSON (Merchant Service) Sold 1924 to Hammond Lumber Co. and renamed Entered the steam schooner trade Reacquired by U.S. Navy April 25 1942 USS CAMANGA AG-42 Commissioned Camanga Class Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG) April 25 1942 Decommissioned December 10 1945 Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown) Returned to Maritime Commission for return to owners SS OLIVER OLSON (Merchant Service) Reacquired by The Oliver J. Olson Steamship Co. and name reverted Ran aground November 30 1953 at the tip of the south jetty at Coquille, OR Ship was partially salvaged before the hull was filled with rocks and became an integral part of the jetty

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     (DATE RANGE)

 

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

 

NO POINT BONITA / CAMANGA POSTMARKS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME

DATE FROM to DATE TO

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Other Information

POINT BONITA

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)

NAMESAKE - The Southern extremity of Marin County, CA

CAMANGA

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - One of the Philippine Islands

 

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