USS Vestal AR-4 Covers Page 1

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

			1914-02-18 Locy Type 3 (A) "GUANTANAMO / BAY" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8
			Manzanillo Cuba

Postcard use

N/A			1914-04-24 Locy Type 3 (A) "NAVY YARD / PORTSMOUTH" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8
			Sailors Mail

Postcard use

			1915-02-05 Locy Type 3r (AC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			"Doing the Marketing, Caimancra. / (Guantanamo Bay,) Cuba."

Postcard use.

N/A			1915-02-08 Locy Type 3r(AC) "GUANTANAMO / BAY CUBA"
			Sailors Mail

Postcard use

N/A			1915-02-22 Locy Type SLK
			Registered Mail

Straight-line Killer

N/A			1915-02-22 Locy Type 9v (1915-1927)
			Registered Mail

5 wax seals on the back with 2 strikes of the Registry marking.

N/A		N/A	1915-02-22 Locy Type 3r(AC)
			Sailors Mail

Cuban Postcard.

No Image			1916-02-10 Locy Type 3b (B-XOO)
			Category

Front pencil notations "Note Reverse"..."Early "Vestal" spaced different". Back Blue printed return to ship at New York

N/A		N/A	1916-03-30 Locy Type 3(B) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V8a
			Sailors Mail

Printed return address: Auxiliary Division, Atlantic Fleet / U.S.S. Vestal, Flagship / Postmaster, New York City.

			1917-02-28 Locy Type 3 (AC) "AT / SEA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8b
			Harris Brothers postcard depicting Tacon Market, Havana Cuba

Postcard use.

N/A		N/A	c 1917 Locy Type 3
			Sailors Mail

Censored but sent before the postage rate of WWI went up to 3c on 3 November 1917.

N/A		N/A	1918-02-23 Locy Type 1z
			Sailors Mail

Censored. Printed corner card for "A. Albrecht, U.S.N.".

N/A			1918-03-06 Locy Type 9v (on reverse)
			Sailors Mail

Registered & Censored. Printed corner card for "A. Albrecht, U.S.N.". Also has a strike of the Philadelphia PA Registered marking.

No Image			1918-08-22 Locy Type 9v 1918-08-25 Springfield MA Registered
			Registered

Note:

N/A		N/A	1918-11-13 Locy Type 1z
			Official Mail

Censored. Straight-line marking for ship.

N/A		N/A	1918-11-20 Locy Type 1z
			Official Mail

Censored. Typed ship identification.

			1920-02-18 Locy Type 3 (AC) " / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back black pen return to ship at San Francisco

No Image			1922-12-13 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Front red pencil notation ".75"...pencil notation "AC 1". Back black pen return to ship at San Pedro

			1923-03-02 Locy Type 3s
			U.S.S. DESTROYERS, PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL

Postcard use.

N/A		N/A	1923-04-04 Locy Type 3s
			Sailor Mail

From the Bob Govern collection.

N/A			1924-11-09 Locy Type 9 (with bars)
			Sailor Mail

Cuban postcard.

N/A			1925-02-24 Locy Type 9 (1925)
			Sailor Mail

Navy Savings Bank mail.

			1926-06-04 Locy Type 3r (A) "BLOCK I. / R"
			Category

Penalty envelope use
Front pencil notation "T-3r (A). Back multiple pencil notations...Red rubberstamp "7829"

N/A			1928-03-04 Locy Type 3r(A)
			Sailor Mail

Navy Savings Bank mail.

N/A			1928-03-05 Locy Type 3r(A) "G'TMO BAY / CUBA"
			Sailor Mail

Note:

			1928-05-14 Locy Type 9v Navy Yard Portsmouth Virginia
			Category

Registered, Official Business from USS Vestal AR-4

No Image			1931-08-11 Locy Type 6
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp "AUG 13 REC'D"

			1932-09-27 Locy Type 6
			Category

Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor

N/A			1933-02-08 Locy Type F USCS Postmark catalog Illus. CD-1a
			Collectors Request

Cacheted. Postmark made by the North Bay Stamp Club.

			1933-06-10 Locy Type 6
			Category

Cachet by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS. Back SEATTLE WASH Machine 1933-06-10

			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Thanksgiving Day

Cachet Maker: Henry Kraus

			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT)
			John Rodgers

Cachet by Honolulu Star Bulletin / John Rodgers Chapter No. 26, USCS

No Image			1936-08-05 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back SAN PEDRO CALIF. Machine cancel

			c1937 Locy Type SLKb (53x8)
			Category

Gold foil USS VESTAL applied label. Back black rubberstamp "SPONSORED BY / MOFFETT CHAPTER"...Violet rubberstamp Joseph F Koehl return

No Image			1937-01-06 Locy Type 3s (A-TTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Hand painted cachet

			1937-07-04 Locy Type SLPb (53x8)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed. The last digit of the year is illegible. 1937 is a best guess based on the known range for this type of postmark.

No Image		No Image	1937-12-25 Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x Locy Type SLKbs 1940-01-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "RING IN THE / NEW YEAR"
			Christmas Day 1937 / New Years Day 1940

Multiple cancel cover using 1937 Christmas Seals
Back is clean

No Image			1938-01-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp M. B. OWENS USCS Member

No Image			1938-09-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

Back blue pencil notation "Join The / U.S.C.S."

			1938-09-23 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

Cachet Makers: ADM Joseph M Reeves Chapter No. 14, USCS, Lottie Eshliman and H J Lindhardt
Eshliman is the artist. You can see her name at the bottom of the brick wall just above "AMERICAN"

No Image			1939-06-15 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

Notes:

			1940-01-01 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB) "RING IN THE / NEW YEAR"
			New Years Day 1940

George V. Sadworth New Year Greetings Cachet...Sponsored by Ralph L. (Shorty) Burkholder
Back is clean

N/A			1940-02-22 Locy Type F "WASHINGTONS / BIRTHDAY" USCS Postmark catalog Illus. V-8c
			Collectors Request

Note:

			1940-04-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Category

Note:

			1940-06-16 Locy Type F "FIRST DAY / THIS CANCEL" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8c
			Father's Day

Cachet is thermographed.

No Image			1941-07-04 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Category

Notes:

No Image			1941-07-26 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Category

Back is clean

			1941-10-27 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8e
			Navy Day 1941

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge, sponsored by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS. Front pencil notation "AR 4". Red rubberstamp "R in circle". Back blue rubberstamp D.C. Bartley return. Black pen "Vestal". Black rubberstamp "793184"

No Image			1941-11-10 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBB)
			Sailor mail

Crewmember Donald F. McLean joined crew on 27 Oct 1941. Back purple pen return to ship at San Pedro

			1942-03-07 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Add on photo cachet by Bruce D. Liddell. Censored wartime (WWII) use. Back black pen notation "Vestal"

			1942-05-28 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Remember Pearl Harbor

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby. Cachet is thermographed. The postmark month is illegible but a letter inside the cover was dated May 27, 1942.

			1943-05-19 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

N/A		N/A	1943-08-03 Locy Type 3z(BBT)
			Sailors Mail

Censored.

N/A		N/A	1944-04-14 Locy Type 3z(BBT)
			Sailors Mail

Censored.

			1944-04-21 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

No Image		No Image	1948-05-07 Locy Type F "SEATTLE / WASHINGTON" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. V-8d
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

N/A		N/A	1937
			Guard Mail

Unused envelope, rubberstamp marking.

N/A		N/A	c 1991
			"Val Bombers Attack Vestal"

Stamp from UGANDA

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