HORNBEAM WLB 394

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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.

    Iris Class 180 ft Seagoing Buoy Tender
    Keel Laid June 19 1943 - Launched August 14 1943

  1. USCGC HORNBEAM WAGL-394
    Commissioned April 14 1944

  2. USCGC HORNBEAM WLB-394
    Reclassified (WLB) 1965 - Decommissioned September 30 1999

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 incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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    (1975,1999)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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
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Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Close-Up Image
Thumbnail Link To
Full Cover Image


 

USPS
Machine Cancel

Woods Hole MA

1975-05-07

N/A

HOMEPORT - Woods Hole, MA August 14 1944 to July 1976. Add-on cachet by Michael Hebert (Mh Cachets)


 

USPS 4-bar

Cape May, NJ

1999-09-30

N/A

HOMEPORT - Cape May, NJ April 29 1977 to September 30 1999. Decommissioning, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Carpinus caroliniana (American Hornbeam) is a small hardwood tree in the genus Carpinus. American Hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood. It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario east to Maine, and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida.

 


 

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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