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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
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Cachet Category


 

No Image

1924-02-25
Locy Type 3 (AC)

Category

Note:


 

N/A

N/A

1924-04-04
USPO Slogan Machine Cancel
San Francisco CA

Incoming mail to the Ship's CO

From the Tom Kean collection.


 

1924-07-07
Locy Type 3 (AC)
" /RHODE ISLAND"

Category

Postcard use
"RESIDENCES OF C. OGDEN JONES, J. R. DREXEL, and F. PEARSON NEWPORT, R. I.


 

No Image

1928-02-02
Locy Type 9v(C)
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-58
Locy Type PPO (mute oval with diagonal lines)

1928-02-07
Washington D.C. Registered

Official Business

Note:


 

No Image

1931-07-07
Locy Type 6 (AT SEA)

Category

Note:


 

No Image

1931-12-15
Locy Type 6

Category

Back BREMERTON WASH. NAVY YARD STA machine cancel 1931-12-15


 

No Image

1934-01-01
Locy Type 6

Category

Note:


 

1934-05-10
Locy Type 6 with "CARIBBEAN SEA" added separately

Guantanamo Bay

Cachet Maker: R L Razzette.


 

1934-08-30
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"ELEVENTH / ANNIVERSARY"

Ship's Birthday

Note:


 

1934-10-14
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"

Category

Note:


 

1934-10-27
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
13 NAVY DAY / BALBOA C.Z.

Navy Day

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 16 Edwin Denby and Lloyd A Nace.


 

1934-11-12
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"

Armistice Day 1934 (Day late)

Elton O. Clem Cachet


 

1934-11-29
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"

Category

Cachet Maker: Elton O. Clem


 

1935-04-21
Locy Type 6

Easter

Cachet by Lt. A. D. Hunter, USN


 

1935-08-05
Locy Type 6

Category

Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey.


 

1936-03-06
Locy Type 7dr

Category

Cachet Maker: John Coulthard


 

1936-03-06
Locy Type 7dr

Category

Cachet Maker: Fred Wayman


 

1936-05-09
Locy Type 7dr

Fleet Maneuvers

Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton.


 

1936-08-30
Locy Type 7dr  (USS Colorado BB-45)
Locy Type 9  (USS Raleigh CL-7)
Locy Type SLKsl (74x7)  (USS Raleigh CL-7)

Ship Birthday - USS Colorado BB-45

Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson


 

1936-10-12
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"COLUMBUS / DAY PSNY"

Columbus Day

Cachet Maker: Douglas C. & Harry F. Wentz


 

N/A

N/A

1937-07-04
Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
"ENROUTE / HOWLAND IS"

Amelia Earhart Search

Rubber stamp cachet


 

N/A

N/A

1937-11-11

Armistice Day

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby. From the Karl Schweinfurth collection.


 

1937-11-19
Locy Type 9v (C)

Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.


 

1937-12-02
Locy Type 7dr

Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.


 

1937-12-25
Locy Type 7dr

Christmas Day 1937

USCS Chapter 22 Cachet


 

No Image

1938-07-26
Locy Type SLKbs

Category

Hand painted Cachet


 

1938-10-02
Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
"SAN PEDRO / CALIF."

Category

Crosby Cachet


 

N/A

N/A

1938-10-27
Locy Type 7dr

Navy Day

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby


 

1939-04-29
Locy Type 7dr
Locy Type 9v (C)
Locy Type 9efw
Locy Type 9x

Category

Note:


 

1939-05-22
Locy Type 7dr

Memorial Day

Cachet Maker: Crosby
Cachet with picture of USS Saratoga CV-3 but cancelled on USS Colorado BB-45.


 

N/A

N/A

1939-07-25
Locy Type 7dr

Fleet Week

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge


 

1939-10-27
Locy Type 7dr

Navy Day 1939

Note:


 

1941-12-14
Locy Type 3z (BBT)

Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

1942-01-31
Locy Type 7drz

Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

No Image

1943-07-23
Locy Type Fz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4

Category

Censored Officer's Mail


 

1943-06-23
Locy Type Fz
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z4

Independence Day Menu Insert from the July 23 1943 cover

Censored Officer's Mail


 

1943-12-07
Locy Type Fz (CD-Z4)

Remember Pearl Harbor

Cachet is thermographed.


 

1945-06-01
Locy Type 9v
USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-58c

1945-06-02
New York NY imcomplete

1945-06-11
Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.

1945-06-12
Washington D.C. U.S. Fleet Post Office

Official Business

Note:


 

1945-09-02
Locy Type 2# (Br. #16029)

Tokyo Bay

Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

1945-11-22
Locy Type 7dr

Thanksgiving 1945

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 22
Back purple pen notation "S-1926"


 

N/A

N/A

1946-02-20
Locy Type 2(n)

Collectors request

Cachet by Marjorie Wilson, courtesy of the Tom Kean collection.


 

No Image

1946-04-17
Locy Type 2(n)

Collectors request

Note:


 

1946-06-20
Locy Type LDPS 2(n)

Last Day Postal Service

Note:

 


 

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