OSPREY AM 56

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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.

    Raven Class Minesweeper
    Keel Laid June 28 1939 - Launched August 24 1940

  1. USS OSPREY AM-56
    Commissioned December 16 1940
    SUNK (Mine) June 5 1944 in the English Channel while enroute to Normandy invasion beaches

    Struck from Naval Register August 22 1944

 

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 incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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. Covers Page 1    (1940-41)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). 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

Date From
to
Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type
FDPS 3 (A-BTT)

"FIRST DAY /
POSTAL SERV"

1941-03-17
to
1941-03-17

First Day of Postal Service, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson


 

Locy Type
FDPS 9v

1941-03-17
to
1941-03-17

First Day of Postal Service, cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson



 

Locy Type
3 (BC-TBT)

"LAUNCHINGS /
NORFOLK N.Y."

USS
Jacob Jones
DD-130

1940-08-24

Launching of RAVEN and OSPREY, cachet by Loring W. Stannard and Tazewell G. Nicholson


 

Locy Type
3 (BC-TBT)

"LAUNCHINGS /
NORFOLK N.Y."

USS
Jacob Jones
DD-130

1940-08-24

N/A

Launching of OSPREY, cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick

 

Other Information

OSPREY earned two battle stars for her service in World War II.

NAMESAKE - A medium-large raptor which is a specialist fish-eater with a worldwide distribution

 


 

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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