GRANVILLE APA 171

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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.

    Haskell Class Attack Transport
    Keel Laid (Date unknown) as Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull
    Launched October 23 1944
    Acquired by U.S. Navy November 21 1944

  1. USS GRANVILLE APA-171
    Commissioned November 21 1944 - Decommissioned May 10 1946
    Laid up May 11 1946 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group

    Struck from Naval Register May 21 1946
    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. Covers Page 1     (1944-45)

 

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

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

Post office established October 30 1944 - Disestablished January 31 1946


 

Locy Type
2z

1944-12-26

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

Locy Type
2rtz (used after POD)

1946-03-02

Note:


 

Locy Type
9efu

1945-08-22
to
1945-08-27

Mark from back of cover

 

Other Information

GRANVILLE earned 1 battle star for World War II service
* Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, May 6-16 1945

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp)

NAMESAKE - A county in North Carolina

 


 

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