SCHENECTADY LST 1185

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.

LST-1179 Newport Class Tank Landing Ship Keel Laid August 2 1968 - Launched May 24 1969 USS SCHENECTADY LST-1185 Commissioned June 13 1970 - Decommissioned December 15 1993 Struck from Naval Register July 13 2001 Sunk as a target by B-52's, B-1's, F-15's along with FA-18's during SINEX - Exercise "Resultant Fury 19" November 21-22 2004

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).

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1. Covers Page 1     (1970-77)

 

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.
 
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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type FDC 2(n+)

1970-06-13

First Day in Commission
Beck Cachet

 

Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)

1971-03-25

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Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)

1977-07-06

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Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)

1992-09-01

Operation Desert Storm and Official Ship's Cachet.

 

Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)

1977-07-06

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Other Information

SCHENECTADY earned the Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy Battle "E" Ribbon, the Navy Expeditionary Medal, two National Defense Service Medals, the Vietnam Service Medal (w/ 3 Campaign stars), the Southwest Asia Campaign Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait) during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - A county and city in New York.

 

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