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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

N/A		N/A	1964-07-07 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard National Association of Supervisors Local 16

N/A			1964-07-07 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by the USS Saginaw Chapter No. 59, USCS

N/A		N/A	1964-07-07 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by George H. Goldey (Goldcraft)

N/A		N/A	1964-07-07 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Morris W. Beck

N/A		N/A	1965-10-23 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Launching

Cachet by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard National Association of Supervisors Local 16

N/A		N/A	1965-10-23 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Launching

Cachet by the USS Saginaw Chapter No. 59, USCS

N/A		N/A	1965-10-23 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Launching

Official ships cachet, signed by the Commanding Officer.

N/A		N/A	1965-10-23 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Launching

Cachet by Morris W. Beck. Airmail border.

N/A		N/A	1965-10-23 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Launching

Cachet by Morris W. Beck.

N/A		N/A	1966-12-16 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Commissioning

Rubber stamp cachet.

N/A		N/A	1966-12-16 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Commissioning

Cachet by the USS Saginaw Chapter No. 59, USCS

N/A		N/A	1966-12-16 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			Commissioning

Cachet by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard National Association of Supervisors Local 16

N/A		N/A	1967-03-05 Locy Type 2(n+)(USS) USS Observation Island EAG-154
			First Polaris Firing (Gold)

Official ships cachet

N/A		N/A	1967-03-21 Panama Machine Cancel Balboa Canal Zone PAQUEBOT
			Canal Transit West to East

Rubber stamp cachet

N/A		N/A	1974-04-14 USPS 4-bar Cape Canaveral FL
			Poseidon Launch (Gold)

Cachet by R. Bob Whitney

N/A		N/A	1979-12-14 USPS 4-bar Patrick AFB FL
			Trident Launch (Gold)

Cachet by R. Bob Whitney

N/A		N/A	1981-12-16 USPO 1-Bar Mare Island, CA
			15th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by the USS Saginaw Chapter No. 59, USCS

N/A		N/A	1984-10-10 USPS Machine Cancel Patrick AFB FL
			TRIDENT 1 Launch (Gold Crew)

Cachet by R. Bob Whitney. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

N/A		N/A	1986-12-16 USPS 4-bar Mare Island, CA
			20th Anniversary

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A		N/A	1994-05-27 USPS CDS Charleston, SC
			Deactivation

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A		N/A	1994-11-03 USPS Type 9 "Naval Base Station" Bremerton, WA
			Scrapping

Scrapping at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton WA of the USS Stonewall Jackson SSBN-634, USS Mariano G. Vallejo SSBN-658, USS Simon Bolivar SSBN-641
and USS Hammerhead SSN-663. Cachet by Tom Armstrong

N/A		N/A	2016-12-16 USPS Pictorial Postmark "50th Anniversary Sta." Vallejo CA
			50th Anniversary

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

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