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USS Yancey (AKA-93) Central Group Capt. J.E. Cohn, USN
2 DEC 46 |
Departed
Port Hueneme, California. |
9 DEC 46 |
Crossed
the Equator at 135° 10' W. |
30 DEC 46 |
Rendezvoused
with the Central Group of ships at Scott Island and refueled from
USS Canisteo. |
31 DEC 46 |
Began transit
through the pack ice with the Central Group. |
14 JAN 47 |
Broke into
the open waters of the Ross Sea. |
15 JAN 47 |
Arrived
at the Bay of Whales. |
18 JAN 47 |
Moored at
Bay of Whales and commenced off-loading of supplies for Little America. |
6 FEB 47 |
Departed
Bay of Whales with Central Group. |
13 FEB 47 |
Departed
Scott Island for New Zealand. |
22 FEB 47 |
Arrived
at Port Chalmers, N.Z. |
5 MAR 47 |
Departed
Port Chalmers for Pago Pago, Samoa. |
11 MAR 47 |
Arrived
Pago Pago, Samoa. |
27 MAR 47 |
Departed
Pago Pago, Samoa with YTL-153 in tow. |
14 APR 47 |
Arrived
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
2 MAY 47 |
Arrived
at Port Hueneme, California. |
Covers from Yancey are usually identified by a return
address of a crewmember (figure 1), or rubber stamp (figure 1a) or the
ship's straight line handstamp (figure 2) because of her post office
having been closed as of September 1946. Most of the one-line cachets
will be found in the vicinity of the postage stamp. During her stay
at the Bay of Whales, mail was cancelled aboard the other ships of the
Central Group (figures 3, 4).
Enroute north, some mail bearing the Highjump cachet was
deposited at Dunedin, New Zealand (figure 5), Pago Pago, Samoa (figures
6, 7) and at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (figures 8, 9). Only the corner card
shown as figure 1a is known.
Figure 1
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Figure 1a
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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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Figure 6
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Figure 7
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Figure 8
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Figure 9
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