OtherUS Submarine Base Pearl Harbor Hawaii

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

 

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 Ship --------- Category

 

N/A		N/A	1927 Locy Type 3 U.S.S. R 1-20 / P H T H Dial text - U.S. Submarine Base / Pearl Harbor
			Category

"From the early 1920's to 1931, the first twenty submarines of the R class were assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The mail clerk at the Submarine Base often
used the wording "U.S.S. R 1-20/P.H. T.H." and similar wording in the killers of his cancel. This does not imply that the post office was located aboard any of the boats; it merely
identified the boats stationed there." USCS Postmark Catalog, 5th Edition.

 

No Image			1927-12-10 Locy Type 3 U.S.S. R 1-20 / P H T H Submarine Base Pearl Harbor
			Category

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			1929-02-07 Honolulu Hawaii U.S. Submarine Base Pearl Harbor Br.
			Official Business

Return to USS R-14

 

			1931-12-12 Sub Detachment Pearl Harbor Br. Honolulu HI
			Official Business

Return to USS S-21

 

N/A			1932-12-25 Locy Type 5hks "MERRY XMAS"
			Christmas Day

Notes:

 

N/A		N/A	1935-03-15 USPO Duplex "U.S. SUB. DETACH. PEARL HARBOR BR. / HONOLULU, T.H."
			Official Mail

Note:

 

			1936-08-04 Locy Type 6gi-1
			Category

Notes:

 

			1938-05-25 Locy Type 6 "U.S. SUB. DETACH. PEARL HARBOR BR. / HONOLULU, T.H."
			Commissioning of the USS Enterprise CV-6

This postmark is a backstamp on the cover along with another dated 05/28/1938.
T. M. Holcombe

 

No Image			1941-07-05 Locy Type 6 "U.S. SUB. DETACH. PEARL HARBOR BR. / HONOLULU, T.H."
			Sailor's Mail

USS Argonaut SM-1

 

			1941-10-20
			Cachet Category

Back pencil notations "Oct 20 - 41" "Rec Nov 3 - 41" "G2"...
Blue rubberstamps "NAVAL SHORE STATION CANCELLATION SOCIETY" "307"

 

			1943-06-18 Locy Type Fz SUB BASE NAVY 128
			Cachet Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

No Image		No Image	1944-06-09
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel...
Return address USS WYMAN DE-38

 

		No Image	1944-08-12
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel for Naval Supply Depot Coffee Plant

 

No Image		No Image	1944-10-24
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel...
Return address Navy 128 identified as Navy Yard Pearl Harbor

 

No Image		No Image	1945-01-20
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel...
Return address NAS Navy #128 identified as Ford Island Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor

 

No Image		No Image	1945-05-14
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel...
Return address USS SEAL SS-183

 

No Image			1945-05-16
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use...Pearl Harbor Submarine Base cancel...
Return address USS SPERRY AS-12

 

No Image			1959-04-07 Locy Type Meter PB2 (#366421) 17012 BR Submarine Base Pearl Harbor Hawaii
			Category

Notes:

 

			1960-12-20
			Category

Return address USS HALIBUT SSGN-587

 

No Image		No Image	1964-08-03
			Sailor Mail

Honolulu Hawaii machine cancel...Submarine Base in killer bars

 

			1981-12-07 Locy Type 9 Dial text: HONOLULU, HI SUBMARINE BASE STA. USPS
			Ship Commemorative - USS Bowfin IXSS-287

Notes:

 

No Image			1981-12-07 Locy Type 9 Dial text: HONOLULU, HI SUBMARINE BASE STA. USPS
			Ship Commemorative - USS Bowfin IXSS-287

Notes: Same cover as above showing the postmark.

 

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