FRIGATE BIRD MSC 191

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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.

    Bluebird Class Motor Minesweeper
    Keel Laid July 20 1953 as "AMS-191" - Launched October 24 1953

  1. USS FRIGATE BIRD AMS 191
    Commissioned January 13 1955

  2. USS FRIGATE BIRD MSC 191
    Reclassified Coastal Minesweeper (MSC) February 7 1955 - Decommissioned 1971

  3. KRI PULAU ATANG M 721 (Indonesian Naval Service)
    Transferred to Indonesia in 1971

    Struck from the Naval Register May 1 1976
    Disposed of through DRMO for scrap September 1 1976

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     (1965)

 

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.


 

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Killer Bar Text

Date From
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No Postmarks Reported - No Postal Facilities


 

Locy Type
2t(n+u)

USS Waldron
DD-699

1965-11-13

N/A

Welcome to Norfolk, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A long-winged, web-footed sea bird, noted for its graceful and long-range flight.

There have been two ships of the US Navy named FRIGATE BIRD - USS Frigate Bird AMC 27 and USS Frigate Bird MSC 191.

 


 

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