USS DAVIS DD-937 Naval Cover 1961 TURKISH GAZIANTEP Cachet USS LANSDOWNE

Item Specifics

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

USS DAVIS DD-937 Naval Cover 1961 TURKISH GAZIANTEP Cachet USS LANSDOWNE

It was sent 17 Sep 1961. It was franked with stamp "Lincoln".

This cover is in very good, but not perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement.

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USS Davis (DD-937), named for Commander George Fleming Davis USN (1911-1945), commanding officer of USS Walke (DD-723), killed in action at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippine Islands on 6 January 1945 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Quincy, Massachusetts on 1 February 1955, launched on 28 March 1956 by Mrs. G. F. Davis, widow of Commander Davis and commissioned on 28 February 1957.

Fate

USS Davis was decommissioned on 20 December 1982, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 27 July 1990 and sold for scrap to the Fore River Shipyard and Iron Works at Quincy, Massachusetts on 11 December 1992. When the company went bankrupt she was resold to N. R. Acquisition Incorporated of New York City by the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court and scrapped by Wilmington Resources of Wilmington in North Carolina.

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RNallenweg (667)

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01/22/2020

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Item Location

North Carolina, United States

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