EUROPA AP 177

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.

Europa Class Transport Built 1928 for Germany as Merchant Vessel SS EUROPA (Commercial Service) Operated by North German Lloyd Line Taken as war prize May 8 1945 USS EUROPA AP-177 Commissioned August 25 1945 - Decommissioned May 2 1946 Delivered to the State Department June 8 1946 Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown) Transferred to France in partial payment of war reparations SUNK (Wrecked) December 8 1946, at La Harve, France Raised April 15 1947 and reconditioned LIBERTE (Commercial Service) Placed in service August 2, 1950 as a Passenger Liner for the French Line (Compagnie Générale Transatlantique) Scrapped 1963

Naval Covers

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1. S.S. Europa Covers Page 1     (1939)
2. Europa Covers Page 1     (1945)

 

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.

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

U.S. GER. SEA POST

1939-04-08

As S.S. EUROPA German flag

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Locy Type 2(n)

1945-11-11

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Locy Type 2z

1945-08-31

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Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - A Phoenician princess abducted to Crete by Zeus, who had assumed the form of a white bull, and by him the mother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon

 

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