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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

 

			1939-05-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "STANDING-BY / OVER SQUALUS" USS Sculpin SS-191
			Rescue of USS SQUALUS SS-192

Autographed by some of the survivors.
Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby, Cachet is thermographed. Cachet mentions the following ships: USS Falcon ASR-2, USS Brooklyn CL-40, USS Sculpin SS-191, USS Wandank ATO-26, USS Semmes AG-24, USS Iwana YT-2 , USCGC Harriet Lane WSC-141, USCGC Thetis WPC-115

 

			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "ISLE / OF SHOALS" USS Falcon ASR-2
			Rescue of USS SQUALUS SS-192

Signed by "L. T. Pitcher"

 

N/A			1939-07-31 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "ISLE OF / SHOALS NH" USS Falcon ASR-2
			Rescue of USS SQUALUS SS-192

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby

 

			1939-08-23 Locy Type 3r (B-BTT)  AT / SEA USS Wyoming AG-17
			Rescue of USS SQUALUS SS-192

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. Cachet mentions the following ships: USS Falcon ASR-2, USS Brooklyn CL-40, USS Sculpin SS-191, USS Wandank ATO-26, USS Semmes AG-24, USS Iwana YT-2 , USCGC Harriet Lane WSC-141, USCGC Thetis WPC-115

 

No Image		No Image	1939-09-13 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "SQUALUS LIFT / ED TO SURFACE" USS Sculpin SS-191
			USS Squalus Raised to Surface

Add-on cachet by Alton (Budd) M. Arrington

 

			1939-11-15 USS GOFF DD-247 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "DECOMMISSION / PORTMOUTH NH" Locy Type F "FIRST TIME THIS / TYPE CANCEL"
			Decommissioning

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			1940-05-23 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "PORTSMOUTH / N.H." USS Sailfish SS-192
			1st Anniversary of loss - USS Squalus

Cachet by Argonauts Crew No. 24, ANCS

 

No Image		No Image	1989-05-23 Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USS) USS L. Y. Spear AS-36
			50th Anniversary of loss - USS Squalus

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