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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 Ship --------- Category

 

			1935-12-25 Locy Type FDPS 3 (AC-TTB) "RECOMMIS / 31 OCTOBER"
			Recommissioning

Cachet by James Chun.

 

			1935-12-25 Locy Type FDPS 3 (AC-TTB) "RECOMMIS / 31 OCTOBER"
			Recommissioning

Cachet by James Chun.

 

N/A		N/A	1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "TODAY IS / NAVY DAY"
			Navy Day

ANCS Cachet, signed by Jimmie Allen.

 

			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			New Years Day 1937

Cachet by Jimmie Allen.

 

			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF."
			New Year's Day Annapolis Naval Academy

Cachet by Jimmie Allen.

 

			1937-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF."
			New Year's Day Annapolis Naval Academy

Cachet by Jimmie Allen. Same cover as above only showing postmark and ship's seal.

 

N/A		N/A	1937-02-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Valentines Day

Cachet by Jimmie Allen. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1937-03-17 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)<br/) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			St. Patrick's Day

Cachet by Jimmie Allen. Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-04-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			April Fool's Day 1937

Cachet by William S. Linto. Back of cover had rubber stamp for Jimmie Allen as well as autograph of John E. London (USCS 4430). It is not known what role, if any, either of these individuals had in creating this cachet.

 

			1937-05-09 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Mother's Day

Cachet by Douglas C. & Harry F. Wentz, sponsored by the Moundbuilders Crew No. 30, ANCS

 

N/A		N/A	1938-05-30 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "COCO SOLO / CANAL ZONE"
			Memorial Day

Cachet by William F. Schlechter

 

N/A		N/A	1940-03-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "N.O.B. / NORFOLK, VA"
			Neutrality Patrol

Add-on cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

			1940-05-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "NAVY YARD / CHARLESTON SC"
			Category

Photo cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

N/A		N/A	1943-09-07 Locy Type 7z
			Censored sailors mail

The ship had postal facilities at the time, but not a machine cancel. So this postmark was applied either on another ship or ashore.

 

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