SEARCHER AGR 4

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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.

    Guardian Class Radar Picket Ship
    Keel Laid December 11 1944 as "SS James W. Wheeler",
        a Maritime Commission type (Z-EC2-S-C5) hull
    Launched January 23 1945
    Delivered February 5 1945 to the Maritime Commission to be operated by
        Calmar Steamship Co.
    Returned to the Maritime Commission October 29 1945
    Leased to Grace Lines Inc, February 4 1947 - Returned October 1 1947
    Custody transferred to US Navy September 19 1954 and
        converted to a Radar Picket Ship

  1. USS SEARCHER YAGR-4
    Commissioned April 2 1955

  2. USS SEARCHER AGR-4
    Redesignated (AGR) September 28 1958 - Decommissioned July 1 1965
    Struck from the Naval Register July 1 1965 - Sold for scrapping May 31 1970

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    (1962)

 

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 P
[2t(n+u)
with "Y" and
opening paren removed]

1962-03-27
to
1962-03-27

Note:

 

Other Information

USS SEARCHER received the following awards during her Naval career - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2) - National Defense Service Medal.

 


 

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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