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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

 

Maritime Vessels (Paquebot)

 


 

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c 1918

Real Photo Post Card -
USS Frederick CA-8

Published by A.R.A. - American Recreation Association. In memory of Bruce Ford Reed (1895-1988) from BJ Zamora.


 

N/A

c 1918

Real Photo Post Card -
USS New Mexico BB-40

Published by A.R.A. - American Recreation Association. In memory of Bruce Ford Reed (1895-1988) from BJ Zamora.


 

N/A

c 1918

Real Photo Post Card - WWI Convoy-
USS Zeelandia ID-2507, Dante Alighieri (Italian under US Contract), USS Siboney ID-2999, Duca D'Aosta (Italian under US Contract), USS President Grant ID-3014, USS America ID-3006, USS Calhoun DD-85
Kurisky (No Information), USS Rathburne DD-113, USS Kroonland ID-1541, USS Mongolia ID-1615

Published by A.R.A. - American Recreation Association. In memory of Bruce Ford Reed (1895-1988) from BJ Zamora.


 

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c 1918

Real Photo Post Card -
"American Troop Convoy to France"

Published by A.R.A. - American Recreation Association. In memory of Bruce Ford Reed (1895-1988) from BJ Zamora.


 

N/A

c 1918

Real Photo Post Card -
"Battle Ships in Rough Sea"

Published by The Brown Brothers, Newport News VA. Message says "This is the way they take water over the bow in a storm. I have seen them do this for days."
In memory of Bruce Ford Reed (1895-1988) from BJ Zamora.


 

No Image

1905-12-17
Received Cancel
Somerville Station
Boston MA

Category

"CORSICAN in Lachine Rapids" (Saint Lawrence River)


 

No Image

1908-10-08
Flag Cancel
Revere MA

Category

"Boston Floating Hospital, Boston Harbor, Mass."


 

No Image

1910-07-30
Machine Cancel
Los Angeles CA

Catalina Islands

"Glass bottom power boat "EMPRESS" landing on the beach at Catalina Island"


 

No Image

1913-06-16
Machine Cancel
New York NY

SS GRAND REPUBLIC

Picture postcard


 

No Image

1918-02-27

Category

Notes: Flag cancel from the U.S. Army Postal Service


 

No Image

1928-02-13
Machine Cancel
Hartford CT

SS HARTFORD

Picture postcard


 

N/A

1931-09-03
USTP Seapost Duplex #29
SS President Hoover

Maiden Voyage to Honolulu

Cachet by Hawaiian Philatelic Society


 

N/A

1931-11-12
USTP Seapost Duplex #30
SS President Coolidge

First Port Call to Honolulu

Cachet by Royal C Hendricks


 

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N/A

1932-05-10
USN Purchasing Office
Shanghai China
SS President Monroe

Dollar Steamship Line

Cacheted


 

N/A

N/A

1935-08-08
USPO Slogan Machine Cancel
San Francisco CA
SS Dorothy Alexander

Last Trip for 1935

Cacheted


 

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N/A

1935-03-14
USPO Slogan Machine Cancel
San Francisco CA
SS Malola

Ship Mail

Cacheted


 

N/A

N/A

1938-05-08
Dutch Slogan Machine Cancel
Rotterdam Holland
SS New Amsterdam

Maiden Voyage

Cachet by Holland America Line


 

1939-09-16
NEW YORK N.Y. CHURCH ST. ANNEX Duplex

Category

Marine Department return
S. S. ROBIN ADAIR


 

N/A

N/A

1940-04-20
Bahama Slogan Machine Cancel
Nassau Bahamas

Bahamas-Williamson Undersea Expedition SL

"Treasury/Bahamas" marking, also "Paid At Bahamas" marking.


 

N/A

N/A

1940-05-06
Bahamas Sea Floor postmark

Bahamas-Williamson Undersea Expedition SL

"Posted in Williamson Photosphere / at Bottom of Sea, Near Nassau, / in the Bahamas."


 

N/A

1940-12-25
USTP Seapost Duplex #30
SS President Coolidge

Christmas Day

Built: Oct 1931, Launched: February 1931, Converted to Troop Carrier: 1941, Sank: Oct 1942
Upon her approach to Espiritu Santo on October 26, 1942, the SS Coolidge, fearing Japanese submarines and unaware of the mine fields, attempted to enter the harbor through the largest and most obvious channel. A friendly mine struck the ship at the engine room and moments later, a second mine hit her near the stern.
Captain Henry Nelson, knowing that he was going to lose the ship, ran her aground and ordered troops to abandon ship. Not believing the ship would sink, troops were told to leave all of their belongings behind under the impression that they would conduct salvage operations over the next few days.
Over the course of the next 90 minutes, 5,340 men got safely off of the wreck and to shore. There was no panic as the troops disembarked - many even walked to shore. However, the captain's attempts to beach the ship were unsuccessful due to the coral reef. The SS Coolidge listed heavily on her side, sank, and slid down the slope into the channel. She now rests on her port side with her bow at a depth of 70 ft and her stern at 240 ft.


 

1940-12-31

Hawaii

Notes: Cachet Makers: Floyd C Hayes and J Lothian.
Hayes is ANCS 977 and the back of the cover has his address stamp while he was stationed at Fort Shafter. It has his middle initial as "G" instead of "C". See also: Pearl Harbor Attack


 

1941-08-07
FDPS 6d-1
Wheeler Field Hawaii

Category

Note: Cachet director is P. Gross. There is an artist signature in the cachet but it is too small to make out.
See also: Pearl Harbor Attack


 

N/A

1942-03-30
Flag Marking
SS John Paul Jones

Liberty Ship

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No Image

1944
Locy Type machine

Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
S. S. GULF CARRIBBEAN


 

1944-06-08
Locy Type machine

Category

U.S. FLEET POST OFFICE WASHINGTON D.C.
From back of USS MENGES DE-320 cover


 

1945-03-02
Locy Type 2z

Category

S. S. JOSEPH GOLDBERGER
Censored wartime (WWII) use


 

No Image

1945-03-31
USPO Machine
New Orleans,LA.

Category

S. S. KATHIO
Armed Guard Unit


 

1945-06-11
Locy Type 2z

Category

U.S.C.G. Army Y-21
Back is clean


 

1945-07-04
Locy Type 7z*

Category

S.S. JOHN MASON
Back is clean


 

1945-10-11
Type 2z

Category

Merchant Marine Tanker S.S. ARICKAREE
Back is clean


 

1946-01-04
U.S. FLEET POST OFFICE STA.
Portland, Maine

Category

Return to USS ATA-173


 

N/A

1946-05-02
USPO Machine Cancel
SS Texarkana Victory

Liberty Ship

KL 11/20/44 - LAU 01/11/45 - DEL 02/10/45. Cover courtesy of Tom Kean, cachet by Boyer


 

c1947
Italian Ship Postmark

Category

Operated with the USAT from 1944-1946 as a Troop Carrier (USAT Saturnia 1944), then Hospital Ship (USAHS Francis Y. Slanger Jan 1945-Dec 1945) and back to a Troop Carrier (USAT Saturnia 1946) before repatriated back to the Italian government in 1947.


 

N/A

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1947-07-16
Egypt Paquebot Postmark
Alexandria Egypt

Collectors request

Delivered in 1945, Scrapped in 1976. Cachet by Harry Ioor. From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.


 

N/A

N/A

1950-02-23
Army/Air Force Postal System
USAT HONDA KNOT

Category

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N/A

1959-07-21
Camden NJ

First Atomic Liner

Note: Signed by Sponsor - First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower


 

1964-09-28
USPO Machine Cancel
Portland OR

Commissioning of -
RV Yaquina

Cachet by the Corvallis Philatelic Stamp Club. From the Rich Hoffner collection.


 

N/A

1970-06-20
US Navy Br. 17071
Naval Office Hong Kong

Category

Note:


 

N/A

N/A

1977-09-12
"Terminal Annex"
Seattle WA

Category

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1979-02-12
U.S. Navy / NMCB 74

Sailor Mail

Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 74 was established on April 28 1943.


 

N/A

N/A

2004-05-08
USPS Pictorial
Marinette WI

Launching & Christening
Staten Island Ferry JOHN J. MARCHI

Cover by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

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N/A

2004-05-08
USPS Pictorial
Marinette WI

Launching & Christening
Staten Island Ferry JOHN J. MARCHI

Cover by Gregory Mews, autographed by John J. Marchi


 

N/A

N/A

2005-10-25
USPS Pictorial
Staten Island NY

100th Anniversary of the Staten Island Ferry System
Staten Island Ferry JOHN J. MARCHI cachet

Cover by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS


 

N/A

N/A

2019-05-18
USPS MPP
Baltimore MD

2019 Maritime Expo / Open House

SS JOHN W. BROWN was a WWII Liberty Ship named after John W. Brown, a labor leader from Maine who had died in 1941. She was launched on September 7, 1942 from the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. The JOHN W. BROWN made 13 voyages during World War II. In 1946 the government loaned the JOHN W. BROWN to the City of New York, where she became a floating maritime high school, the only one in the United States. The ship served in that capacity from 1946 to 1982. Acquired by Project Liberty Ship, Inc., the JOHN W. BROWN arrived in Baltimore to serve as a museum ship and memorial in 1988. Cachet by Richard F. Hoffner

 


 

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