KEYSTONE STATE

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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.

    Sloop-of-War
    Laid down February 12 1827 - Launched August 18 1828

  1. USS ST. LOUIS (Sloop of War)
    Commissioned December 20 1828 - Placed in Ordinary December 25 1831
    Recommissioned September 19 1832 - Placed in Ordinary July 1 1838
    Recommissioned April 5 1839 - Placed in Ordinary September 16 1842
    Recommissioned February 27 1843 - Decommissioned May 12 1865
    Declared unserviceable in 1866
    Designated League Island Receiving ship until 1894
    Loaned to the Pennsylvania State Naval Militia as a training vessel 1894

  2. KEYSTONE STATE (Training Ship)
    Name changed November 30 1904

    Struck from Naval Register August 9 1906
    Sold June 5 1907 to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia for scrap

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).

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  1. 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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Cover Image

2nd Commissioning September 19 1832 to July 1 1838


 

Norfolk VA CDS

1833 (manuscript) 10-22

No Image

Posted to USS ST. LOUIS at Norfolk - forward to Savannah

 

Other Information

Initially assigned to the Pacific Squadron
Rearmed in 1861 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with twelve 32-pdrs, two 20-pdr Parrott rifles, and one 12-pdr smoothbore
Assigned to the South Atlantic to search for Confederate commerce raiders
Reassigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron November 26 1854


 


 

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