SAFEGUARD T-ARS 50

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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.

    Safeguard Class Rescue and Salvage Ship
    Keel Laid 8 November 1982 - Launched 12 November 1983

  1. USS SAFEGUARD ARS-50
    Commissioned 17 August 1985 - Decommissioned 26 September 2007

  2. USNS SAFEGUARD T-ARS-50
    Placed in service 26 September 2007 - Placed out of service 1 October 2016

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 Safeguard T-ARS-50 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.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
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Postmark Image
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USPS
4-bar Postmark

Sturgeon Bay, WI

1985-08-17

First Day of Commission


 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Any person or thing that protects or guards against loss or injury.

USS SAFEGUARD earned the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon, the Battle "E" Ribbon (2 awards) and the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name SAFEGUARD - USS Safeguard ARS-25 and USNS Safeguard T-ARS-50.

The ships sponsor was Mrs. Dornell Kilcline, wife of Vice Adm. Thomas J. Kilcline Sr., Commander Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet

 


 

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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