SS Meriwether Lewis with a color portrait cachet and pictorial postmark from Gobles, MI dated April 24, 2021.

See the pair's web pages for the details of their personal lives, equipment, boats, guides, Native-Americans they met, and route covered between 1803 and 1805 as they explored the western rivers route to the Pacific Ocean. Cover franked with 37 cent Meriwether Lewis stamp # 3855. Also see cover for their guide Sacajawea.

The US Liberty Ship named in his honor transported cargo during WW II to US and Allied Forces. It was built in Portland, Oregon and delivered on Jan 27, 1942, one of the first built. Unfortunately, the ship was sunk by German U-Boat U-634 in the North Atlantic on March 2, 1943.

Free US Shipping