LUNA AKS 7

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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.

    Acubens Class General Stores Issue Ship
    Keel Laid April 23 1943 as Maritime Commission type (EC2-S-C1) hull
    Launched September 30 1943 as HARRIET HOSMER
    Completed and accepted by Maritime Commission October 25 1943
    Assigned under GAA contract to Standard Fruit and SS Co
    Acquired by U.S. Navy November 2 1943
    Renamed November 18 1943

  1. USS LUNA AKS-7
    Commissioned January 31 1944 - Decommissioned April 28 1946

    Struck from Naval Register (Date unknown) Laid up May 21 1947 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay
    Original name restored, While in reserve
    Sold November 2 1964 to Nicolai Jeffe Co 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).

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. USS Luna AKS-7 Covers Page 1     (1945)

 

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
Thumbnail Link
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Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link
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Cover Image


 

Locy Type 2z

1945-12-31

Cachet by Louis S. Pentel


 

Locy Type
9efu

1945-11-01

Marking from the back of the cover.

 

Other Information

USS LUNA earned the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal and the Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Roman mythology...The moon goddess.

 


 

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