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Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

 

Japan Antarctica Covers

 


 

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1930-08-16
Ship's Marking
Chichibu Maru

Built 1930
SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

Cut Square and 2 postcards.
The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.


 

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1932-04-21
Ship's Marking
Chichibu Maru

Built 1930
SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.


 

1932-12-16
Ship's Marking
Chichibu Maru

Built 1930
SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

Ship's marking on a USS Oglala CM-4 cover.
The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.


 

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1933-11-26
Ship's Marking
Chichibu Maru

Built 1930
SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.


 

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1935-05-01
Ship's Marking
SS BOKUYO MARU

Paquebot Cover
Yokohama Japan postmark
Built 1924
Sank July 1939

Cacheted. July 1939 caught fire and sank on voyage Valparaiso and Los Angeles to Yokohama.


 

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1935-09-10
Ship's Marking
SS TOTTORI MARU

Paquebot Cover
Yokohama Japan postmark
Built 1913
Sank May 15 1945

Cacheted. USS Hammerhead SS-364 is credited with sinking this ship. At the time, she was being used by the IJN as a POW Troopship (ie "Hellship") but no POW's were on board at the time of her sinking.


 

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1935-06-18
Ship's Marking
IJN Cruiser ASAMA

Port Visit to Honolulu
Commissioned May 17 1899
Decommissioned November 30 1945

Cachet by the Honolulu Stamp Company
On 20 March 1935, the Asama departed Yokosuka on a training voyage to Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Suva, Apia, Honolulu, Truk, and Saipan, returning to Yokosuka on 22 July 1935 after a 20,930-nautical-mile (38,760 km) cruise.


 

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c 1935
Ship's Marking
IJN Oil Tanker ERIMO

Port Visit to Honolulu
Commissioned December 16 1920
Beached March 4 1942
Hit by 3 Torpedoes from USS S-39 (SS-144)

Cachet by the Honolulu Stamp Company


 

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1955-08-07
Ship's Marking
ASAHI DE 262

USS Duxbury Bay AVP-38

Port Visit to Norfolk VA. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson


 

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1970-08-10
Ship's Cachet
JMSDF KIKUZUKI (Crysanthemum Moon) DD-165

USS Leahy DLG-16

Port Visit to Norfolk VA. Cover by Tazewell G. Nicholson. JMSDF = Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

 


 

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