NORTHERN LIGHT T-AK 284

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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.

    Northern Light Break-bulk Class Cargo Ship
    Keel Laid 1 April 1960 as SS Mormaccove - Launched 1 April 1961
    Delivered to Moore-McCormack Lines 1 September 1961 for service
    Renamed 27 May 1977 to SS Cove
    Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, date unknown
    Acquired by the US Navy in 1980 & Converted for Naval service

  1. USNS NORTHERN LIGHT T-AK-284
    Placed in service date 1980
    Placed out of service 26 April 1984

    Laid up 1 October 1984
    Laid up 9 May 1985, in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

  2. USNS NORTHERN LIGHT T-AK-284
    Placed in Service 24 August 1990 - Placed out of Service September 1991

    Title transferred to MARAD 1 October 2000
    Slated for disposal 2014

Naval Covers

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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 Northern Light T-AK-284 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

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Locy Type
2t(n+u)B

USS Piedmont
AD 17

1981-10-07

N/A

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson.

 

Other Information

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