USN AG Ship Covers

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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	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

			1929-04-25 Straight-line Killer
			Medical Advertisement postcard.

S/S RUTH ALEXANDER. Built 1913, ex- Sierra Cordoba, built for Norddeutscher Lloyd, ex- Callao 1917, 1922 purchased from US Government renamed Ruth Alexander, 1938 transferred to President Terminal Steamship Co. (a subsidiary of APL) not renamed, December 31 1941 bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft.

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-15 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

M/S Snug Hitch

 

N/A		N/A	1944-03-24 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

M/V Tabinta

 

N/A		N/A	1945-03-29 Locy Type 7z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Adrian Victory. KL Dec 15 1944, Lau. Jan 26 1945, Del. Mar 3 1945

 

N/A		N/A	1945-04-13 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Albert P. Ryder

 

N/A		N/A	1944-11-25 Locy Type 2z*
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS American Fisher

 

N/A		N/A	1944-11-26 Locy Type 2z
			Sailor's Mail

SS Andrew Marshalk

 

N/A		N/A	1943-12-10 USPO Machine cancel Milwaukee WI
			Incoming Sailor's Mail

SS Bernard N. Baker

 

N/A		N/A	1945-02-23 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Clarence Darrow

 

N/A		N/A	1945-01-03 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS David Holmes

 

N/A		N/A	1945-10-24 USPO Machine cancel Dexter MO
			Incoming Sailor's Mail

SS Fort Laramie, redirected to SS Park Benjamin

 

N/A		N/A	1944-08-01 Locy Type 7z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS George L. Farley

 

N/A		N/A	1944-08-18 Locy Type 2z*
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Henry R. Schoolcraft

 

N/A		N/A	1945-01-04 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Hiram S. Maxim

 

N/A		N/A	1944-08-22 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Horace Greeley

 

N/A		N/A	1944-06-22 Locy Type 7dz
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS James A. Drain

 

N/A		N/A	1944-05-24 Locy Type 7z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS James G. Blaine

 

N/A		N/A	1944-05-18 Locy Type 3z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Noah Webster

 

N/A		N/A	1943-12-13 USPO 4-bar Warnock OH
			Incoming Sailor's Mail

To Treasure Island CA, redirected to SS Santa Margarita, redirected to SS Paul Hamilton.
Seaman 1st Class Roy Walmyre Anderson, to whom this letter was written, was killed aboard the SS Paul Hamilton on April 20 1944 off the coast of Algiers, North Africa. The SS Paul Hamilton had a loss of 580 personnel, all hands were lost.

 

N/A		N/A	1944-09-20 British Maritime Mail marking US Army Postal Service, APO-813 Victoria Barracks, Belfast, Northern Ireland
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Thomas W. Gregory

 

N/A		N/A	c 1945 No Postmark
			Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-07-27 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-04 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-06 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-11 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-16 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

N/A		N/A	1945-08-20 Locy Type 7# Branch No. Unreadable
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS Trinity Victory

 

			1945-01-02 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS WIDE AWAKE

 

N/A		N/A	1944-04-10 US Army Postal Service, APO ?
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS William N. Byers

 

N/A			1945-09-04 Locy Type 7# Branch #10638 FPO Tacloban Philippines
			Censored Sailor's Mail

SS William Prouse (Mormon, Found Gold in Nevada 1850)

 

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