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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

			1936-01-13 Locy Type 2 U.S. Receiving Ship at Philadelphia PA
			Ship Launching

Cachet by Gerrit H. Cortelyou and George K. Handle. Sponsored by the CDR John Barry Chapter No. 19, USCS. Cachet is thermogaphed.

			1936-11-02 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

Unknown Cachet
Front pencil notations "T-3 FD "B" "...Forwarding address
Back NEW YORK NY KINGS BRIDGE STA. CDS 1936-11-04

			1936-11-02 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BBT) "FIRST DAY / COMMISSION"
			First Day in Commission

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			1936-11-02 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BBT) FIRST DAY / COMMISSION
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet by Gerrit H. Cortelyou and George K. Handle. Sponsored by the CDR John Barry Chapter No. 19, USCS. Cachet is thermographed.

 

No Image			1936-11-02 Locy Type FDC 3r (A-BBT) FIRST DAY / COMMISSION
			Category

Notes: This letter was included inside the cover.

 

			1936-12-18 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY YARD / NEW YORK"
			Captain John Paul Jones Commodore John Barry

Cachet by Henry Grimsland

N/A		N/A	1937-01-14 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "FUNCHAL / MADEIRA ISL"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A		N/A	1937-01-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PIRAEUS / GREECE"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A		N/A	1937-02-06 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PALERMO / SICILY"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A		N/A	1937-02-21 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "HAMILTON / BERMUDA"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cacheted. From the Tom Kean collection.

No Image			1937-02-21 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "HAMILTON / BERMUDA"
			Shakedown Cruise

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N/A		N/A	1937-02-22 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "HAMILTON / BERMUDA"
			Memorial to Richard Sutherland Dale

Cachet by the Adm. Sir David Beatty Chapter No. 46, USCS

			1937-03-17 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY YARD / NEW YORK"
			St. Patrick's Day 1937

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No Image			1937-06-14 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NAVY YARD / NEW YORK"
			Category

Back is clean

			1938-01-01 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "NEW / YEARS DAY"
			New Years Day 1938

Unknown Cachet
Front pencil notations "SUNK 11 DEC 44"..."DD 369"
Back return address sticker U.S.S. REID SAN DIEGO

No Image			1938-05-01 Locy Type SLPbs(n) (55x5) Locy Type Unlisted RECD USCS Catalog Illustration CD-R3
			Category

Front signed by Wilber W. Carter, NMC
Back Wilber W. Carter, NMC address label

 

N/A		N/A	1938-03-31 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "LAHAINI / T.H.
			Fleet Maneuvers

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) SAN FRAN- / CISCO, CAL
			Fleet Week

Cachet by George V. Sadworth, sponsored by the USS Brooklyn Crew No. 13, ANCS. Desmond D Jagyi

No Image			1941-05-08 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT)
			Category

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			1941-07-10 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT)
			Category

Add on Cachet
Back black printed return address...Black rubberstamp "265"

			1941-11-27 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z2
			Category

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge
Back purple pen notation "Reid 11/29/41"...Pencil notation "REID DD-369 Fz"...Red pencil notation "103"...Black rubberstamp William R. Welch return...Black pen notation "#9/41"

			1942-09-05 Locy Type 9v 1942-09-15 F.P.O. San Francisco Registered 1942-09-17 USPO Registered Glidden, Iowa
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Front black pen notation "Sept. 17"

			1942-10-05 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Front black pen notation "OCT 10"

 

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