SANTA ANA NOTS 2869

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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.

    Transport/Hospital Ship
    Built 1918
    Acquired by U.S. Navy February 11 1918

  1. USS SANTA ANA NOTS-2869
    Commissioned February 11 1918 - Decommissioned July 21 1919
    Returned to W. R. Grace and Co. of New York

  2. GUATEMALA (Merchant Service)
    Renamed (Date unknown)

  3. SANTA CECILIA
    Renamed (Date unknown)

  4. IRWIN
    Renamed (Date unknown)
    Acquired by the War Department March 1941 and renamed

  5. USAT JOHN L. CLEM
    Operated as Troop Ship June 1941 - September 1943

  6. USAHS JOHN L. CLEM
    Converted to Hospital Ship June 1944

  7. USAT JOHN L. CLEM
    Reverted to Troopship 1945
    Assigned 1946 to the U.S. Public Health Service
    Laid up December 1946 in Reserve Fleet at Brunswick, GA
    Name reverted to IRWIN

    Sold January 1948 for scrap

 

Naval Covers

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  1. Covers Page 1     (1919)

 

Postmarks

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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.
 
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Killer Bar Text

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NO POSTMARKS
REPORTED

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Army Transport Service

Newport News VA
Machine

1946-02-12
to
1946-02-15

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Other Information

SANTA ANA

NAMESAKE - Named for the city of Santa Ana, California

JOHN L. CLEM

NAMESAKE - Major General John Lincoln Clem (August 13 1851 – May 13 1937)
Clem was a United States Army General who had served as a boy in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He gained fame for his bravery on the battlefield, becoming the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history. He retired from the Army in 1916, having attained the rank of Major General, as the last veteran of the Civil War still on duty in the Armed Forces

 


 

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