TALAMANCA AF 15

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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.

    Mizar Class Stores Ship
    Built 1931 as Passenger/Freighter Liner and Fruit Cargo Carrier
    Operated by the United Mail Steamship Co., New York, N.Y.
    Acquired by U.S. Navy December 16 1941

  1. USS TALAMANCA AF-15
    Commissioned January 28 1942 - Decommissioned November 29 1945

    Struck from Naval Register December 19 1945
    Returned to United Fruit Co. 1946

  2. SULACO (Commercial Service)
    Sold 1959 to Elder & Fyffes and renamed

    Scrapped 1965

 

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    (1944)

 

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


 

United Fruit Company
Purser's Mark

1938-01-18

As S.S. TALAMANCA



 

Locy Type
3z (BTT)

1944-01-24

Notes: The month is not legible in the postmark. January is a default guess.


 

Locy Type
3z (BTT)

1944-09-01

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

Other Information

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

NAMESAKE - Former name retained

 


 

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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