Country Japan

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

 

Japan Antarctica Covers

 

 

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

 

			1930-08-16 Ship's Marking Chichibu Maru
			Built 1930 SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

Cut Square and 2 postcards.
The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.

 

N/A		N/A	1932-04-21 Ship's Marking Chichibu Maru
			Built 1930 SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.

 

			1932-12-16 Ship's Marking Chichibu Maru
			Built 1930 SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

Ship's marking on a USS Oglala CM-4 cover.
The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.

 

N/A		N/A	1933-11-26 Ship's Marking Chichibu Maru
			Built 1930 SUNK by USS Gudgeon SS-211 April 28 1943.

The ship was also named Titibu Maru 1938, Kamakura Maru 1939-43.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-05-01 Ship's Marking SS BOKUYO MARU
			Paquebot Cover Yokohama Japan postmark Built 1924 Sank July 1939

Cacheted. July 1939 caught fire and sank on voyage Valparaiso and Los Angeles to Yokohama.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-09-10 Ship's Marking SS TOTTORI MARU
			Paquebot Cover Yokohama Japan postmark Built 1913 Sank May 15 1945

Cacheted. USS Hammerhead SS-364 is credited with sinking this ship. At the time, she was being used by the IJN as a POW Troopship (ie "Hellship") but no POW's were on board at the time of her sinking.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-06-18 Ship's Marking IJN Cruiser ASAMA
			Port Visit to Honolulu Commissioned May 17 1899 Decommissioned November 30 1945

Cachet by the Honolulu Stamp Company
On 20 March 1935, the Asama departed Yokosuka on a training voyage to Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Suva, Apia, Honolulu, Truk, and Saipan, returning to Yokosuka on 22 July 1935 after a 20,930-nautical-mile (38,760 km) cruise.

 

N/A		N/A	c 1935 Ship's Marking IJN Oil Tanker ERIMO
			Port Visit to Honolulu Commissioned December 16 1920 Beached March 4 1942 Hit by 3 Torpedoes from USS S-39 (SS-144)

Cachet by the Honolulu Stamp Company

 

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1955-08-07 Ship's Marking ASAHI DE 262 USS Duxbury Bay AVP-38

Port Visit to Norfolk VA. Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

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1970-08-10 Ship's Cachet JMSDF KIKUZUKI (Crysanthemum Moon) DD-165 USS Leahy DLG-16

Port Visit to Norfolk VA. Cover by Tazewell G. Nicholson. JMSDF = Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

 

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c 2021 Ship's Cachet JS Maya DDG-179

Courtesy of the Dennis Gill collection.

 

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