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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 Ship --------- Cachet Makers

			1932-04-07 Locy Type 5hks (U.S. FRIGATE) "ST. PETERS- / BURG FLA."
			Port Visit

R/S cachet from the St. Petersburg Stamp Club

			1932-09-17 Locy Type 5hks (U.S. FRIGATE) "WASHINGTON / D.C."
			Category

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			1932-10-27 Locy Type 5hks "WASHINGTON / D.C."
			Rubberstamp cachet

Navy Day

			1933-01-21 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA.
			Port Visit - San Diego

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			1933-02-10 Locy Type 3 (BTT) (U.S. FRIGATE) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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			1933-02-22 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Washington State Philatelic Society

Washington's Birthday
Cover is signed by Deane C. (DC) Bartley and addressed to Harry Moore, Mail Clerk aboard CONSTITUTION.

			1933-02-22 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Washington State Philatelic Society

Signature of Deane C. (DC) Bartley, Back of 02/22/33 cover and Harry Moore's address

			1933-03-04 Locy Type 3 (BTT) (U.S. FRIGATE) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Rubberstamp cachet

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			1933-04-12 Locy Type 5hks (U.S. FRIGATE) "OAKLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Port Visit

R/S cachet from the Oakland California Chamber of Commerce

			1933-05-06 Locy Type 3 (BTT) ("U.S. FRIGATE") "ASTORIA / OREGON" USF Constitution
			Port Visit

Cachet by Virginia Trullinger, sponsored by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce

			1933-05-12 Locy Type 3 (BTT) ("U.S. FRIGATE") "ASTORIA / OREGON" USF Constitution
			Port Visit

Cachet by Virginia Trullinger, sponsored by the Astoria Chamber of Commerce

			1933-05-30 Locy Type 3 (BTT) SEATTLE, / WASHINGTON.
			Memorial Day

Notes: Front of the cover has a Type 3 (B-BBT) postmark from USS Medusa AR-1

			1933-07-12 Locy Type 3 (BTT) ("U.S. FRIGATE") "EVERETT / WASHINGTON" USF Constitution
			Port Visit

Cachet artist was Hal Ringen, sponsored by the Everett Chamber of Commerce

			1933-08-02 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"
			Rubberstamp cachet

Visiting Portland Oregon

N/A			1933-08-31 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "SAN FRAN- / CISCO, CALIF."
			Cachet sponsored by the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce

Visiting San Francisco California

			1933-10-15 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" "LONG BEACH / CALIF."
			USS MACON

Grey USCS Chapter 7 Cachet

			1933-10-15 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" "LONG BEACH / CALIF."
			USS MACON

Red USCS Chapter 7 Cachet

			1934-03-20 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" SAN DIEGO / CALIF
			Port Visit - San Diego

Notes: Cachet Makers: Willard N Watson, Deane C Bartley and San Diego Chamber of Commerce.

N/A		N/A	1934-05-07 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" "BOSTON / MASS"
			Welcome Home to Boston

Cachet by John Gill and sponsored by the Boston Newspapermen Post 305, American Legion

N/A			1934-05-13 Locy Type 3 (BTT) "U.S. FRIGATE" "BOSTON / MASS"
			Mother's Day

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			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3s (BC-BTT) NAVY DAY USS Grebe AT-134
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Raymond R Freshwater

			1935-11-20 Locy Type F "OLD IRONSIDES / ARRIVED IN / HAWAII 1845" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-39 USS Argonaut SM-1
			90th Anniversary of visit.

R/S address on back from cachetmaker L.C. Dewey.

			1938-08-19 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA" USS Ranger CV-4
			Harry Ioor

Cachet commemorates battle between USS Constitution and Guerriere on August 19, 1812. It also commemorates Commodore Isaac Hull

			1938-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN / FRANCISCO" USS Arizona BB-39
			Cachet Maker Unknown

Cachet talks about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. poem to save Old Ironsides.

			1942-01-13 Locy Type Fz [CD-Z3] USS Monssen DD-436
			Second USCS Convention Ship Commemorative - USS CONSTITUTION

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 1 Old Ironsides and John E Gill.

			1947-10-21 Locy Type 7dit(1) ("BOSTON, MASS.") BOSTON, MASS.
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: C Stephen Anderson
Contributed by Mark Kalisch on behalf of Col. & Mrs. Bertram Kalisch, USA (Ret.).

			1947-10-21 Locy Type 7dit(1) "BOSTON/MASS"
			Ship's 150th Birthday

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			1948-10-21 Locy Type 2tnu USS Topeka CLG-8
			Anniversary of launching

Notes: Cachet Maker: A Schoelles.

N/A		N/A	1979-08-24 USPS Pictorial Postmark "APS Station" Boston MA
			Old Ironsides Sails Again

Cachet by Detlef H. Clausen

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