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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

			1918-05-28 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12n
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1918-11-22 Locy Type 3 (AC) "ROSYTH / SCOTLAND"
			Category

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No Image			1919-05-12 Locy Type 7t
			Category

Inside this cover was a letter and a small pamphlet listing the church calendar as well as other information. See the bottom of the USS Texas BB-35 Main Page for images of these items.

No Image			1930-00-00 Locy Type PPB USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12l
			Category

Postmark date is unknown. 1930 is a guess.

No Image			1930-00-00 Locy Type PPR USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12m
			Category

Postmark date is unknown. 1930 is a guess.

			1931-05-27 Locy Type 6
			Category

Black rubberstamp NMC

No Image			1931-09-15 Locy Type P (FLEET FLAGSHIP T-3s with "USS TEXAS" in killers)
			Category

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			1931-09-15 Locy Type P (U.S. FLEET FLAGSHIP T-3s) "LAST DAY / FLEET FLAG"
			Admiral F H Schofield Ship Change Of Command

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Postmark from Naval Station San Pedro California on back of cover.

			1931-11-11 Locy Type 6
			Armistice Day

Cachet Maker: Walter G. Crosby

No Image			1932-04-22 Locy Type 8 (At Sea)
			Category

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			1932-04-30 Locy Type 5hks (C)
			Washington Bi-Centennial

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			1932-08-22 Locy Type 6
			Fleet Week 1932

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			1933-02-19 Locy Type 6
			Category

Post Card...Typed notation upper left
Back typed notation "PLACE CACHET HERE"...Pencil notations "None"..."Recd 2-18-33"

No Image			1933-06-14 Locy Type 5hks (C) "FLAG DAY / BREMERTON"
			Flag Day 1933

Back BREMERTON WASH NAVY YARD STA machine 1933-06-14

			1933-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Independence Day 1933

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No Image			1933-10-12 Locy Type 5hks "Columbus Day / San Pedro"
			Columbus Day

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			1933-11-11 Locy Type 5hks (C) "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day

Cachet Makers: E O Tauer and E J Birdsall.

			1933-12-29 Locy Type 5hks (C) "TEXAS ADMIT- / TED TO UNION"
			Texas Admission Day 1933

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			1934-02-12 Locy Type 5hks "A. LINCOLN'S / ANNIVERSARY"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet Makers: E J Birdsall, E O Tauer and John C Kane.
Cachet is signed by John C. Kane, the ship's mail clerk.
No. 10 cover also commemorates FDR's birthday on January 30 1934 and is postmarked from San Pedro CA on that day.

			1934-02-12 Locy Type 5hks "A. LINCOLN'S / ANNIVERSARY"
			President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Same cover as above only showing second cachet.

No Image			1934-04-30 Locy Type 8
			Category

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			1934-05-31 Locy Type 5hks (C) "FLEET-PASSING / IN REVIEW"
			Fleet Review

Cachet Maker: E J Birdsall.

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "BOSTON / MASS"
			Category

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			1934-11-09 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LOS ANGELES / HARBOR"
			1934 Cruise

Cachet Maker: E O Tauer.

No Image			1934-11-10 Locy Type 7qt
			Welcome Home

Cachet Maker: Admiral Joseph M. Reeves Chapter No. 14, USCS

			1934-11-11 Locy Type 5hks (C) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day 1935

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			1935-07-04 Locy Type 5hks (C) "INDEPENDENCE / DAY"
			Independence Day 1935

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			1936-06-06 Locy Type 5hks (C) "HAIL / TEXAS"
			American History Commemorative

Official Opening of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Texas, Cachet by Desmond D. Jagyi

No Image		No Image	1936-10-02 Locy Type 5hks "ANNI / FIRST BATTLE"
			American History Commemorative

Cachet Makers: Desmond D. Jagyi and William F. Schlechter

			1936-10-03 Locy Type 5hks "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Launching of the USS Enterprise CV 6

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			1936-10-22 Locy Type 5hks (C) "HONORING / SAM HOUSTON"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Desmond D Jagyi.

No Image			1936-12-25 Locy Type 5hks (C) "MERRY / CHRISTMAS"
			Christmas Day 1936

Note: Back black rubberstamp ANCS Edwin Lyons return

			1937-02-12 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LOS ANGELES / HARBOR"
			Lincoln's Birthday

Cachet Makers: Ted DeNyse and Byrd L Powell.

			1937-05-30 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12p "FIRST DAY / THIS CANCEL"
			Memorial Day

Cachet Maker: Louis R Diesing.

			1937-07-29 Locy Type 7qt ("AT SEA")
			Category

Cachet Makers: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS and Meyer Tuchinsky

			1937-09-06 Locy Type 5hks (C) "LABOR DAY / BROOKLYN"
			Labor Day

Cachet Maker: Daniel Puglis.

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 5hks (C) "NORFOLK / VA"
			Navy Day

Cachet Maker: Jack McLennan.
Cachet is partially thermographed (main lettering).

			1938-03-15 Locy Type 5hks (C) "OLD HICKORY / 1767 - 1845"
			President Andrew Jackson

Cachet Maker: Associated Naval Cover Collectors.

No Image			1938-07-05 Locy Type 5hks (C) "COPENHAGEN / DENMARK"
			Category

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			1939-04-01 Locy Type 6 Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12h Locy Type 9efw USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12j Locy Type 9x (C)
			Category

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			1940-06-18 Locy Type 7qt
			Official Business

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			1941-05-03 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. T-12i
			Official Business

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			1941-10-01 Locy Type 7qtz
			Category

Muridge Cachet

			1942-10-03 Locy Type 7qtz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1942-10-19 Locy Type 3z (TTB)
			Sailor's mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

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