Cachet Category Ship First Day Of Postal Service Page 3

Page 1  (1933 - 1940)
Page 2  (1941)
Page 3  (1942 - Present)

 

Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to covers with add-on cachets as well.

 

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

 

			1942-01-03 Locy Type FDPS 3 USS Zeilin AP-9
			Walter Czubay

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			1942-01-10 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS San Diego CL-53
			C Wright Richell Tazewell G Nicholson

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			1942-03-17 Locy Type FDPS P  (USCS Illustration E-13) U.S.S. / ELECTRA USS Electra AKA-4
			Taz Nicholson?

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			1942-05-12 Locy Type 2 Navy Receiving Station San Pedro California
			Walter G Crosby

Notes: Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1945-10-27 Type 3 Victory Cancel USS Solar DE-221
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

Green printed cachet actually used on Navy Day

 

			1945-12-10 Locy Type 2(n) USS Fargo CL-106
			Gow C Ng

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			1946-03-28 Locy Type FDC F [CD-4] USS Robert L Wilson DD-847
			Al Cohen

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			1946-11-03 Locy Type FDC 2(n)  (USCS Illustration V-3e) Locy Type FDC F  (USCS Illustration V-3a) USS Valley Forge LPH-8
			Al Cohen

Notes: Cachet Categories: Ship Commissioning and Ship First Day Of Postal Service.

 

		No Image	1947-05-26 USS Edisto WAGB-284
			Manuscript 'First Day'

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			1950-10-17 USS Marsh DE-669
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

Blue printed cachet...Back black rubberstamp T.G. Nicholson

 

			1950-10-17 USS Calvert APA-32
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

Blue printed cachet

 

			1950-11-22 Locy Type 2 APL 30
			Tazewell G Nicholson

Notes: Actually, the ship's first day of postal service was November 5, 1950.

 

		No Image	1950-12-06 USS Deuel APA-160
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

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			1950-12-07 USS Darby DE-218
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

Blue printed cachet...Back black rubberstamp T.G. Nicholson

 

		No Image	1951-01-17 USS Earle B. Hall APD-107
			Cachet Maker

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No Image		No Image	1951-06-04 Locy Type Fake "FIRST DAY / POST SERV" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-37a Locy Type FDPS 9ef(nu) USS Shangri-La CV-38
			Kelly Armstrong

Add-on cachet

 

			1951-09-24 USS Cassin Young DD-793
			Tazewell G. Nicholson

Green printed cachet...used after first day (1951-09-07)

 

			1986-09-02 Locy Type FDPS 2-1(n+) (USS) USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
			Cachet Maker

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			1989-08-07 Locy Type FDPS F  (USCS Illustration A-15) FIRST DAY OF / POSTAL SERVICE USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
			Cachet Maker

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			2002-10-30 Locy Type 2-2 (PCU, FPO AE 09542-2876) USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76
			Roger A Wentworth

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