Recovery Force Ships
| Ship |
Type |
Designation | Covers |
|
Atlantic |
|||
|
USS Donner |
PRS - Dock Landing Ship |
LSD-20 |
N |
|
USS Borie |
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-704 |
N |
|
USS Cone |
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-866 |
N |
|
USS Ellison1 |
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-864 |
N |
|
USS Manley |
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-940 |
N |
|
USS Robert H McCard |
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-822 |
N |
|
SRS - Destroyer |
DD-843 |
Y |
|
|
USS Opportune |
SRS - Salvage & Rescue Ship |
ARS-41 |
N |
Notes:
1) The USS Ellison was the first ship to arrive at the landing point
2) From Steve Durst's unpublished book - This cover was produced by an enterprising naval cover collector, Rich
Hoffner, who send 63 covers to the secondary recovery ship, U.S.S. Warrington to be postmarked for the Mercury-Redstone
2 recovery. A second copy was sold on eBay in November
2011 for $250!
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