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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

			c1916 Locy Type 3a
			Category

Postcard use

			1916-06-20 Locy Type SLKb (USS) (49x4)
			Category

Postcard use
"The Log" detailing ship's arrival at Old Point Comfort, VA

			1917-03-29 Locy Type 3 (AC)
			Category

International Art Publishing Co. Easter postcard

			1918-05-18 Locy Type 1z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use

No Image			1923-02-22 Locy Type 3rs (AC)
			Category

Note:

No Image			1923-04-11 Locy Type 3rs (AC)
			Category

Envelope face only

No Image			1924-04-23 Locy Type 7t
			Category

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No Image			1924-05-07 Locy Type 3rs
			Category

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No Image			1924-11-09 Locy Type 3s (AC) (1921-25)
			Category

Back pencil notation "NEVADA / 1b"

No Image			1926-01-15 Locy Type 3r "BREMERTON / WASH."
			Reduced Official Business

Note:

			1926-07-11 Locy Type 3r "PORT ANGELES"
			Category

Leland Lund Publishing Tacoma WA postcard

			1927-04-11 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Category

Shows seal imprinted in wax on the back of the cover.

			1927-04-11 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Category

Same cover as above only showing postmarks.

N/A		N/A	1920's
			Registered, Official mail

From the USS Nevada while at Navy Yard, Norfolk VA

No Image			1927-06-14 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
			Category

Back black pen return to ship at San Francisco...Pencil notation "NEVADA"

No Image			1927-10-31 Locy Type 9w (AC)
			Category

Note:

			1928-01-04 Locy Type 9v (C)
			Category

Registered use from USS ANTARES AG-10
Pencil notation "MAILED / ON USS NEVADA / SEE OTHER SIDE"
Back violet type 9v (C) x2...Violet BROOKLYN N.Y. Registered...Pencil notation "NEVADA / 18"

No Image			1930-05-07 Locy Type 8
			Category

Note:

No Image			1931-04-10 Locy Type 3s (AC) 1930-32 "ENROUTE TO / BREMERTON"
			Category

Addressed to Walter G. Crosby

			1931-07-02 Locy Type 8
			Nevada State hand colored cachet

Add-on cachet by Roger A. Wentworth. Back black pen notation "WENTWORTH A / O CACHET"

No Image			1931-07-02 Locy Type 8 "A.M."
			Category

Note:

N/A		N/A	1931-07-02 Locy Type 8 "P.M."
			Collectors request

From the Bill Wladyka collection.

			1931-11-26 Locy Type 3s (AC) THANKS / GIVING DAY
			Thanksgiving Day

Note:

No Image			1931-12-13 Locy Type 3s (AC) SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA
			Category

Cachet was added later. Maker unknown.

			1932-01-26 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
			Category

Unknown
blue pen / typed cachet

No Image			1932-03-03 Locy Type 3s (AC) 1930-32 "HAWAIIAN CRUISE" 1932-03-12 SEBASTOPOL CALIF. Duplex
			Category

Note:

No Image			1932-05-30 Type 3s (AC) (1930-32) "MEMORIAL / DAY"
			Category

Back SANTA ANA CALIF GEN DEL CDS 1932-05-31...Pencil notation "BB36"

			1932-05-30 Locy Type 3s (AC) (1930-32) "MEMORIAL / DAY" Locy Type 9v (C+) Locy Type 9w Locy Type 9x
			Category

Note:

No Image			1933-01-23 Locy Type 5bhks "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Official Business

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No Image			1933-03-20 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

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			1934-01-05 Type 5hks "WELCOME / MACON"
			USS MACON

USCS Chapter 7 Cachet

			1934-03-11 Locy Type 5hks 18 TH / ANNIVERSARY
			Ship Birthday

Harry E Klotzbach

N/A		N/A	1934-12-20 Locy Type 5hks "SAN-PEDRO / CALIF"
			Sailors mail

Signed by the XO. From the David Pallante collection.

			1935-07-27 Locy Type 5hks "SEATTLE / WASH"
			Category

E A Peake and Ronald E Greenwood

			1935-08-01 Locy Type 5hks "FLEET WEEK / SEATTLE WN"
			Fleet Week

Eugene L Mueller

		No Image	1935-08-01 Locy Type 5hks FLEEET WEEK / SEATTLE WN
			Category

Walter G Crosby

No Image			1936-02-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "WASHINGTON / BIRTHDAY"
			Category

Back pencil notation "BB36"

			1936-02-29 Locy Type 5hks BREMERTON / WASH
			Category

Note:

N/A			1936-03-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "20TH / ANNIVERSARY"
			20th Anniversary

Cachet by E. A. Peake. From the Tom Kean collection.

		No Image	1936-04-02 Locy Type 5hks BREMERTON / WASH
			Category

Note:

N/A			1937-05-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			US Fleet Battle Maneuvers

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Lloyd A. Nace, ANCS 54. From the Bill Wladyka collecton.

No Image			1938-04-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "PEARL / HARBOR TH"
			Category

Back purple rubberstamps "1826(x2)","Portland, Ore.","(cross)"...Red pen "1755-N"...Pencil "IV","10","120"...Red pencil "163 (crossed out)"

			1939-03-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Ship Birthday

Ted Harrington

			1939-04-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASHINGTON"
			Ship Launching - USS Wilson DD-408

Notes: Cachet Makers: Lloyd A Nace, T M Holcombe and Deane C Bartley.
Cachet is thermographed.

			1939-06-24 Locy Type 5hks "AT / SEA"
			R.O.T.C. Cruise 1939

Crosby Cachet

			1941-04-13 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB)
			Category

Mae Weigand.

			1941-07-11 Locy Type Fake [CD-3]
			Category

Sibley's Department Store Hobby Shop

			1941-11-28 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB)
			Category

Note:

			1943-03-12 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1945-03-14 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Envelope face only

			1945-07-20 Locy Type 9# (Br. #15730) 1945-07-22 USPO 9# (Br. #13874) 1945-07-31 USPO New York, NY Registry Division
			Registered Official Business

Note:

			1945-09-09 Locy Type 7t(#u) (C+)
			Category

Note:

No Image			1945-12-07 Locy Type 2n
			Category

Back red pencil notation "NEVADA"

No Image			1946-02-05 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Note:

N/A		N/A	1946-02-05 Locy Type 2(n)
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Stewart Milstein

N/A		N/A	1946-03-13 Locy Type 2(n)
			Collectors request

Cachet by John N. Lawrence

			1946-06-30 Locy Type LDPS 2n
			Last Day Postal Service

Modern computer add on cachet by MhCachets
Back pencil notations "BB36"..."2(N)"..."7900"..."WE"...Red rubberstamp "101"...Computer printed red/black makers mark

			1946-06-30 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Category

Thermographed cachet by Walter G Crosby.

N/A		N/A	2016-12-07 USPS Type 9 "Naval Sta MOU No 1" Pearl Harbor HI
			Pearl Harbor Day

Cachet by Michael Brock.

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