MUIR WOODS T-AO 139

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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.

    Suamico Class Fleet Oiler
    Keel Laid 6 January 1945 - Launched 9 March 1945
    Delivered to the Soviet Union 22 March 1945 renamed ELBRUS
    Returned to US custody 20 February 1948 at Trieste, Italy
    Placed in operation by Marine Transport Lines, 20 February 1948
    Delivered to the Maritime Commission and acquired by the Navy, 23 April 1948

  1. SS MUIR WOODS AO-139
    Placed in service by the NTS 23 April 1948

  2. USNS MUIR WOODS T-AO-139
    Control transferred to MSTS 1 October 1949
    Placed out of service 10 June 1959

    Struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to MARAD 10 June 1959
    Sold for scrapping 2 December 1972,

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 Muir Woods T-AO-139 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.


 

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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
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Postmark Image
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USPO
Machine Postmark

Groves, TX

1952-04-10

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

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

NAMESAKE - A merchant name retained.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. George B. Peters.

 


 

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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