OSCAR ELTON SETTE R 335
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.
Keel Laid 19 December 1985 - Launched 23 September 1987 Taken Out of Service 5 June 1992 Stricken 5 June 1992 Laid Up 1992-2001 - Conversion to a fisheries research ship started 2001 Conversion completed October 2002 - Commissioned 23 January 2003 |
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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.
- USNS Adventurous T-AGOS-13 Covers Page 1 (DATE RANGE)
- NOAA Oscar Elton Sette R-335 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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USPS Ink-Jet |
2022-04-18 |
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Courtesy of the Dennis W. Gill collection
Other Information
NAMESAKE (Adventurous) Inclined toward bold undertakings
NAMESAKE (Oscar Elton Sette) Oscar Elton Sette (29 March 1900 - 25 July 1972),[1] was an influential 20th-century American fisheries scientist. He was the first director of the Honolulu Laboratory at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center), from 1949 to 1955.
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