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USS Sennet (SS-408)
Central Group
Cmdr. Joseph B. Icenhower, USN
| 10 DEC 46 |
Departed
Submarine Base Balboa, Canal Zone. |
| 28 DEC 46 |
Crossed
the Antarctic Circle. |
| 30 DEC 46 |
Rendezvoused
with the Central Group of ships in the vicinity of Scott Island. |
| 31 DEC 46 |
Dr. Waldo
K. Lyon, physicist, reported aboard for duty. Entered pack ice in
column with Central Group. |
| 3 JAN 47 |
Due to severe
ice conditions was taken in tow by Northwind
and proceeded northward toward Scott Island. |
| 5 JAN 47 |
In vicinity
of Scott Island commenced inspection of vessel and served as weather
and radio relay station. |
| 25 JAN 47 |
Rendezvoused
with Philippine Sea and Cacapon;
refueled. |
| 29 JAN 47 |
Served as
stand-by rescue vessel for the R4D flights from Philippine Sea to
Little America through the 30th. |
| 4 FEB 47 |
Set course
for Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 11 FEB 47 |
Entered
Port Nicholson, Wellington, N.Z. |
| 16 FEB 47 |
Departed
Wellington for Papeete, Tahiti. |
| 24 FEB 47 |
Arrived
Papeete, Tahiti. |
| 26 FEB 47 |
Departed
Papeete, Tahiti. |
| 13 MAR 47 |
Moored at
Submarine Base Balboa, C.Z. |
U.S.S. Sennet had no official post office on board, thus no postmark
incorporating the ship's name. Some mail was cancelled with a World
War II vintage "U.S. NAVY" hand cancel which rendered extremely
poor impressions (figure 1). These can be found with either a 2 APR
or 7 APR 1947 date, long after the ship returned to home port. The single-line
ship's name handstamp (figure 2) appears on many Sennet philatelic covers
and, indeed, identifies them as being from this vessel. Occasionally
it was used as a cancelling device.
Much of the mail from Sennet was transferred to another
ship of the Task Force for postmarking and onward transmission (figures
3, 4, 5).
Figure 1
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Figure 2
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Figure 3
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Figure 4
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Figure 5
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