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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	1899-03-31 USPO Duplex No. 1 Cancel "Mil. Sta. No. 1 Manila" PHIL ISL'D
			Sailor Mail

After a one day stop at Guam, USS Oregon anchored at Manila, Philippines Islands 19 March 1899 where she would be based. She was assigned blockade duty in Manila Bay by
assisting the U.S. Army in putting down the guerilla insurrection then raging in the islands.

 

		N/A	1899-04-08 USPO Duplex Cancel "Mil. Sta. No. 2 Philippine Islands" Cavite
			Sailor Mail

USS Oregon stationary

 

N/A		N/A	1899-05-31 USPO Duplex Cancel "Mil. Sta. No. 1 Philippine Islands" Manila
			Sailor Mail

USS Oregon straight-line marking

 

N/A		N/A	1899-09-27 USPO Duplex Cancel "Mil. Sta. No. 3 Philippine Islands" Iloilo
			Marines Mail

USS Oregon manuscript marking

 

			1901-08-05 Straight Line marking USPO Duplex Bremerton, Wash
			Sailor Mail

USPO Machine Cancel from Seattle, Wash (on the back)

 

N/A			1904-03-28 USPO Duplex Manila P.I.
			Sailors Mail

Note:

 

		N/A	1905-04-14 USPO Machine Cancel Manila P.I.
			Sailors Mail

Hand-drawn and lettered USS Oregon corner card.

 

N/A		N/A	1905-12-27 USPO Duplex Cancel Manila P.I.
			Sailors Mail

To Troy OH

 

N/A		N/A	1906-01-23 USPO Duplex Cancel Manila P.I.
			Sailors Mail

To Troy OH

 

N/A		N/A	1906-02-05 USPO Machine Cancel Manila P.I.
			Sailors Mail

To Troy OH

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Historical Note: In December 1905, USS OREGON was ordered home. She sailed from Cavite on 10 February 1906 to Hong Kong for a brief period in dry dock before beginning
her homeward journey.

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N/A		N/A	1900-04-11
			Transfer Order

On 11 April 1900, with this one page document, the Commander in Chief, Forces Asiatic Station detached LCDR Charles A. Adams from duty on board USS BALTIMORE Cruiser No. 3
to duty on board USS OREGON at Yokohama, Japan.
The middle panel of the transfer order shows receipt by Capt. Charles F. Wilkes, Commanding USS OREGON on the same day the order was issued.

 

N/A		N/A	1905-12-25
			Dinner Menu

USS OREGON souvenir Christmas dinner menu sponsored by merchant A.W. Yearsley.

 

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