SKYWATCHER AGR 3

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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 November 30 1944
    Launched January 16 1945 as RAPHEAL R. RIVERA
    Delivered January 30 1945 to States Marine Lines
    Laid up October 26 1947 in National Defense Reserve Fleet
    Acquired by U.S. Navy September 20 1954 and renamed

  1. USS SKYWATCHER YAGR-3
    Commissioned March 29 1955

  2. USS SKYWATCHER AGR-3
    Redesignated (AGR) September 28 1958
    Decommissioned March 29 1965

    Struck from Naval Register April 1 1965
    Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet
    Sold December 23 1970 to Dawood Cord. Ltd. Karachi, Pakistan
    Resold to German buyers

    Scrapped December 1971 at Santander, Germany

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. Covers Page 1     (1957-62)

 

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
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type
2(n)

1957-09-20

Note:


 

Locy Type P
[2(n) with "Y" removed]

1962-02-19

Note:

 

Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
Navy Expeditionary Service Medal (4-Cuba) - 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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