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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

N/A		N/A	1932-07-05 Locy Type 5hks
			Port Visit - San Pedro CA

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1933-05-30 Locy Type 5hks "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA"
			Port Visit - San Francisco CA

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1933-06-10 Locy Type 5hks "FLAG / SCOFOR"
			Port Visit - Seattle WA

Cachet by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1933-07-05 Locy Type 5hks (C) "PORTLAND / ORE"
			Port Visit - Portland OR

Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1933-10-27 Locy Type 5hks "AT SEA / NAVY DAY"
			Navy Day

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N/A		N/A	1933-11-15 Locy Type 5hks "FIRST DAY / FLAGSHIP"
			Flagship

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N/A		N/A	1934-03-09 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "DEWEY'S / DRYDOCK"
			Dewey Drydock

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N/A		N/A	1934-06-04 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "ENROUTE / YOKOHAMA"
			Going to Yokohama

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N/A		N/A	1934-06-24 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "TSINGTAO / CHINA"
			Port Visit

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N/A		N/A	1934-09-17 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "CHINWANGTAO / CHINA"
			Port Visit

Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

N/A			1934-10-11 Locy Type 5ahks "GUAM / M. I."
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1934-10-27 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "NAVY DAY / SYDNEY AUST."
			Navy Day

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No Image			1934-11-21 Locy Type 5ahks (C) "INDIAN / OCEAN"
			Category

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N/A			1934-12-03 Locy Type P "USS AUGUSTA / JAVA SEA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-55d
			Category

Insert Card from NMC

 

No Image			1934-12-05 Locy Type P "BALI THE / LAST PARADISE" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-55d
			Category

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No Image			1934-12-10 Locy Type P "USS AUGUSTA / MACASSAR" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-55d
			Category

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N/A			1935-03-29 Locy Type 5ahks "AMOY TO / SHANGHAI"
			Navy Mail Clerk card

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N/A			1935-04-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "WHANGPOO / RIVER"
			Navy Mail Clerk card

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N/A			1935-04-02 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			Navy Mail Clerk card

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N/A		N/A	1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GLORIOUS 4TH / AT TSINGTAO"
			Independence Day

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N/A		N/A	1935-07-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "FIRING SRBP / OFF TSINGTAO"
			SRBP = Short Range Battle Practices

Add-on cachet by Rich Hoffner

 

N/A		N/A	1935-07-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "FIRING SRBP / OFF TSINGTAO"
			SRBP = Short Range Battle Practices

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N/A			1935-08-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "TSINGTAO / TO CHEFOO"
			Navy Mail Clerk card

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N/A			1935-08-14 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "CHEFOO / NORTH CHINA"
			Navy Mail Clerk card

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N/A			1935-10-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ADM MURFIN / CINCAF"
			Change of Command

Cachet by David Brockton Browne

 

N/A		N/A	1935-10-09 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "TAIWAN / KAIKYO"
			Port Visit

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			1935-10-15 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "BANGKOK / SIAM"
			World Cruise

Printed return address on back for William F. Schlechter

 

			1935-10-31 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "PONTIANAK / BORNEO"
			World Cruise

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N/A		N/A	1935-11-03 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "JESSELTON / BR'N BORNEO"
			World Cruise

Cachet by - . Killer text is "Jesselton, British North Borneo" (now Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia)

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SULU SEA / "
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . The Sulu Sea is a body of water in the southwestern area of the Philippines, separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "BALABAG / STRAITS"
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . The Balabac Strait is one of the straits that connects the South China Sea with the Sulu Sea. It separates Balabac Island (Palawan province), Philippines, from Balambangan and the Banggi Islands north of Borneo that are a part of Malaysia's Sabah state.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-07 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ZAMBOANGA / MINDANAO"
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga is in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philippines.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-07 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ZAMBOANGA / MINDANAO"
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . Zamboanga City, officially the City of Zamboanga is in the Zamboanga Peninsula region of the Philippines.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ILOILA / P.I."
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . Iloilo, officially the Province of Iloilo is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-09 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "ILOILO / P.I."
			World Cruise

Cachet by - .

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ILOILA TO / MANILA P.I."
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - .

 

N/A		N/A	1935-11-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "CUYO EAST / PASS P.I."
			USS AUGUSTA Crosses the Equator

Cachet by - . The Cuyo East Pass is to the east of a group of about 45 islands lying to the northeast of the Philippine island of Palawan.

 

No Image			1935-11-15 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "COMMON / WEALTH P.I."
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1936-01-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NEW YEAR / CAVITE P I"
			New Year's Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by the The International Exchange Club

 

N/A		N/A	1936-01-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "5TH BIRTHDAY / OLONGAPO P I"
			5th Birthday

Cachet by John J. Haag, sponsored by Ted Harrington

 

N/A		N/A	1936-03-20 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "DUMANQUILAS / BAY P I"
			World Cruise

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			1936-04-18 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NANKING / CHINA"
			Category

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1936-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "JULY FOURTH / TSINGTAO"
			Independence Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Ted Harrington

 

No Image			1936-08-18 Locy Type P "USS AUGUSTA / CHEFOO" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-55d
			Category

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N/A			1936-08-23 Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-55b
			Official Business

Registered, Official Business

 

			1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / SHANGHAI"
			Navy Day 1936

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Leslie E. Paulson ANCS #145.

 

N/A		N/A	1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / SHANGHAI"
			Navy Day

Cachet by John N. Lawrence. The AUGUSTA postmark is real, the others are not.

 

N/A		N/A	1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / SHANGHAI"
			Navy Day

Cachet by Leo A. Schupp

 

N/A		N/A	1936-11-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "CROSSING / THE EQUATOR"
			Equatorial Cruise 1936

Cacheted

 

N/A		N/A	1936-12-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ISLE OF BALI / N.E.I."
			Equatorial Cruise 1936

Cacheted. N.E.I. = Netherlands East Indies.

 

N/A		N/A	1936-12-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "MAKASSAR / CELEBES"
			Equatorial Cruise 1936

Cacheted. Makassar is the capital city of the island of Sulawesi (historically called Celebes).

 

N/A		N/A	1936-12-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "CHRISTMAS / CHEER"
			Christmas

Cacheted.

 

N/A		N/A	1937-03-12 Locy Type 3s (B-BTT) "OLONGAPO / P.I."
			World Cruise

Cachet by John Coulthard

 

N/A			1937-03-19 Double-Ring Registry
			Registered Sailors Mail

Clipper Mail

 

N/A		N/A	1937-09-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			Sailors Mail

Peru Indiana duplex marking also.

 

N/A		N/A	1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / CHINA"
			Navy Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by the Independence Crew No. 2, ANCS

 

N/A		N/A	1938-01-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SHANGHAI / CHINA"
			New Years Day

Cacheted.

 

			1938-01-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "OLONGAPO / P.I."
			Category

Cachet by Harry Ioor

 

N/A		N/A	1938-01-20 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ENROUTE / SHANGHAI"
			Shanghai, China

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N/A		N/A	1938-01-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "CAVITE / P.I."
			Cavite Philippines

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

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