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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

		No Image	1980-02-16 USPS CDS Seattle WA
			Christening cover

Photo cachet of ship namesake

			1981-08-15 Locy Type FDC 2-1(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-70
			Commissioning

Rubber stamp cachet

			1981-08-26 Locy Type 2-1(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-70
			Namesake

Rubber stamp cachet

		N/A	1983-11-10 Locy Type 2-1(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-70
			Collectors request

Rubber stamp cachet, same as the Commissioning cachet but "First Day In Commission" has been removed. Courtesy of John C. Pawlak.

			198507-04 Locy Type 2-1(n) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-70a
			Independence Day 1985

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			1987-02-04 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS, MC KEE) Locy Type 9-1(n) (A,USS)
			Category

Cachet by Bruce E. Speed

 

N/A		N/A	1989-02-14 Locy Type 9-1(n) (A,USS)
			Valentines Day Independence Day (1988)

Cachet by Bruce E. Speed

			1992-10-15 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS,McKEE)
			Ship's Crest

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No Image			1993-02-11 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS,McKEE)
			4th Anniversary USS Pasadena SSN-752

Cachet by Gary R. Rogak

No Image			1997-08-07 Locy Type 2-1p(n+) (USS,McKEE) Locy Type 9-1(nu) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-70c
			Seattle Seafair Week 1997

Cachet by USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS

No Image			1999-07-16 USPS Pictorial Postmark "INACTIVATION" San Diego CA
			Deactivation

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A			1999-07-16 USPS Pictorial Postmark "INACTIVATION" San Diego CA
			Deactivation

Cachet by Al Banasky. Different color postmark.

No Image		No Image	1999-09-30 USPS 4-bar Cancel Hampton Roads VA
			Decommissioning is 1 October

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A			1999-09-30 Locy Type 2-1p(n+) (USS, McKEE) Locy Type 9-1(nu) ("MC KEE")
			Decommissioning is 1 October

Cachet by Al Banasky.

 

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