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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			1924-02-25 Locy Type 3 (AC)
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No Image			1931-07-07 Locy Type 6 (AT SEA)
			Category

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No Image			1931-12-15 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Back BREMERTON WASH. NAVY YARD STA machine cancel 1931-12-15

 

No Image			1934-01-01 Locy Type 6
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			1934-05-10 Locy Type 6 with "CARIBBEAN SEA" added separately
			Guantanamo Bay

Note: Cachet Maker: R L Razzette.

 

			1934-08-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "ELEVENTH / ANNIVERSARY"
			Ship's Birthday

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			1934-10-14 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Category

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			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) 13 NAVY DAY / BALBOA C.Z.
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 16 Edwin Denby and Lloyd A Nace.

 

			1934-11-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Armistice Day 1934 (Day late)

Elton O. Clem Cachet

 

			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Elton O. Clem

 

			1935-04-21 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Herbert Dobb

 

			1935-08-05 Locy Type 6
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey.

 

			1936-03-06 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: John Coulthard

 

			1936-03-06 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Fred Wayman

 

			1936-05-09 Locy Type 7dr
			Fleet Maneuvers

Notes: Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton.

 

			1936-08-30 Locy Type 7dr  (USS Colorado BB-45) Locy Type 9  (USS Raleigh CL-7) Locy Type SLKsl (74x7)  (USS Raleigh CL-7)
			Ship Birthday - USS Colorado BB-45

Notes: Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson

 

			1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "COLUMBUS / DAY PSNY"
			Columbus Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Douglas C. & Harry F. Wentz

 

			1937-11-19 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-12-02 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-12-25 Locy Type 7dr
			Christmas Day 1937

USCS Chapter 22 Cachet

 

			1938-10-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF."
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

			1939-04-29 Locy Type 7dr Locy Type 9v (C) Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

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			1939-05-22 Locy Type 7dr
			Memorial Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Crosby
Cachet with picture of USS Saratoga CV-3 but cancelled on USS Colorado BB-45.

 

			1939-10-27 Locy Type 7dr
			Navy Day 1939

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			1942-01-31 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1943-06-23 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4
			Independence Day Menu Insert from the June 23 1943 cover

Censored Officer's Mail

 

			1943-12-07 Locy Type Fz (CD-Z4)
			Remember Pearl Harbor

Notes: Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1945-06-01 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-58c 1945-06-02 New York NY imcomplete 1945-06-11 WASHINGTON D. C. REG. SEC. 1945-06-12 WASHINGTON D. C. U. S. Fleet P. O.
			Official Business

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			1945-11-22 Locy Type 7dr
			Thanksgiving 1945

Note: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 22
Back purple pen notation "S-1926"

 

No Image			1946-04-17 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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			1946-06-20 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

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