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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 Ship --------- Category

 

			1939-04-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON" USS Nevada BB-36
			Ship Launching

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace (ANCS 54) and T. M. Holcombe (ANCS 15). Cachet is thermographed.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-07-05 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Commissioning (Launching cachet)

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-07-05 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Commissioning

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace (ANCS 54) and Gordon A. Shaw

 

N/A		N/A	1939-09-18 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "SAN FRANCISCO / CALIF"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-09-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-09-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-09-29 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-09 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-09 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-11 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "ON THE / EQUATOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-11 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "ON THE / EQUATOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-17 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "GUAYAQUIL / ECUADOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-17 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "GUAYAQUIL / ECUADOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-17 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "GUAYAQUIL / ECUADOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-19 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "GUAYAQUIL / ECUADOR"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Mae Weigand

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "CALLAO / PERU"
			Shakedown Cruise

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "CALLAO / PERU"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Mae Weigand

 

N/A		N/A	1939-10-26 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "CALLAO / PERU"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Lloyd A. Nace.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-11-04 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-11-04 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-11-04 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BALBOA / CANAL ZONE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Louis C. Weigand.

 

			1939-09-04 Locy Type SLPbns (52x3)
			Ship's Seal

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1940-05-07 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			Port Visit (Shakedown Cruise cachet)

Cachet by Edward Hacker.

 

N/A			1941-03-02 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T. H."
			Port Visit

Note:

 

			1945-08-06 Locy Type 2z*
			Sailors mail

Censored.

 

			1946-06-22 Locy Type 2z* (used after POD)
			Atomic Tests

Cachet by Smartcraft.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-06-22 Locy Type 2z* (used after POD)
			Last Day of Postal Service (Unverified)

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

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