FURMAN T-AK 280

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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.

    Furman Class Cargo Ship
    Keel Laid 23 January 1945 as SS Furman Victory
    Launched 6 March 1945
    Merchant Service
    Completed and delivered to the WSA 19 April 1945 for operation by Northland Transportation Co.
    Chartered by American President Lines, 26 June 1946
    Chartered by American President Lines, 11 August 1950
    Withdrawn from the Reserve Fleet and acquired by the US Navy 18 September 1963

  1. USNS FURMAN T-AK-280
    Placed in Service with the MSTS (Date Unknown)
    Placed out of Service (Date Unknown)

    Laid up in temporary custody of MARAD 22 October 1986
    Struck from the Naval Register 1993
    Permanent custody acquired by MARAD 22 July 1993
    Final Disposition, fate unknown

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. USNS Furman T-AK-280 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
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
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USPS
Machine Postmark

Portsmouth, NH

1984-03-31

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

USNS FURMAN earned the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Carl C. Donaugh who's husband at the time was a U.S. Attorney from Oregon.

 


 

If you have images or information to add to this page, then either contact the Curator or edit this page yourself and add it. See Editing Ship Pages for detailed information on editing this page.

 


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