SUSQUEHANNA T-AOT 185

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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.

    Falcon Class Transport Tanker
    Keel Laid 1972 as MV FALCON COUNTESS
    Launched in 1972
    Leased by the US Navy and assigned to MSC
    Purchased by the US Navy 14 May 1976

  1. USNS SUSQUEHANNA T-AO-185
    Placed in service 14 May 1976

  2. USNS SUSQUEHANNA T-AOT-185
    Reclassified Transport Oiler (T-AOT) (date unknown)
    Placed out of service 1983

    Struck from the Naval Register 1983
    Returned to her owners, Falcon Carriers 14 May 1984 renamed MV FALCON COUNTESS
    Sold for scrapping 22 November 1993

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 Susquehanna T-AOT-185 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.


 

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Killer Bar Text

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Pitney Bowes
Meter

Panama

1980-10-02

The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Named for the Susquehanna River which rises in Lake Otsego in central New York and flows across Pennsylvania and the northeastern corner of Maryland into the Chesapeake Bay, which is the flooded estuary of that river.

Four ships of the US Navy have borne the name SUSQUEHANNA - USS Susquehanna (1850 Sidewheel Steamer), USS Susquehanna ID-3016, USS Susquehanna AOG-5
and USS Susquehanna T-AOT-185.

 


 

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