TURQUOISE PY 18

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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.

    Submarine Chaser/Patrol Yacht
    Keel Laid 1 August 1922 as the yacht OHIO
    Launched 16 September 1922
    Delivered to her owners, Scripps Howard Newspaper of Chicago, IL in November 1922
    Renamed Maramichi, Walucia III, Kallisto and Entropy
    Acquired by the Navy 21 August 1940
    Started conversion to Naval service 25 September 1940

  1. USS PC-459
    Commissioned 5 December 1940

  2. USS TURQUOISE PY-18
    Renamed and reclassified 1 February 1941 - Decommissioned 24 December 1943

  3. NUEVE de OCTOBRE
    Transferred to Ecuador 29 January 1944 and renamed
    Sold outright to Ecuador 13 May 1949
    Struck from the Naval Register 7 June 1949
  4. ESMERALDAS
    Renamed in 1949
    Ran aground 9 September 1953 in Gunyas River, near Guayaquil, Ecuador and declared a total loss.

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. USS Turquoise PY-18 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

Postmark
Date
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Postmark Image
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Locy Type
3z

1942-12-19

As Turquoise. The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - A gem, composed of hydrous phosphate of aluminum and copper, whose color ranges from a greenish-grey to sky blue.

NAMESAKE - (Ecuador) Nueve de Octobre, the 9th of October.

NAMESAKE - (Ecuador) Esmeraldas, a port city in Ecuador.

 


 

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