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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 --------- Cachet Category

			1974-12-27 USPS Machine Cancel Pascagoula MS
			Keel Laid

Cachet by U.S.S. America Chapter No. 71, USCS. (Oldendorf mis-spelled)
Back pencil notations ship info

			1978-03-04 Locy Type FDC (2n+)(USS)
			First Day In Commission

Cachet by Sir George H. Newman & Ronald Reeves

N/A		N/A	1978-03-04 Locy Type FDC (2n+)(USS)
			First Day In Commission

Cachet by the USS San Diego Chapter No. 27, USCS. Contributed by Tom Kean.

N/A		N/A	1978-03-17 Locy Type (2n+)(USS)
			Welcome to Home Port

Cachet by the USS San Diego Chapter No. 27, USCS. Contributed by Tom Kean.

			1979-06-07 TOCHIGI MARU (Japanese Ship) 1979-06-08 Locy Type 2(n+)(USS)
			Portland Rose Festival 1979

Front blue rubberstamp "LOADING WHEAT FOR JAPAN". Cachet by the USS Oregon Chapter No. 79, USCS

			1982-08-05 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) 1978
			1982 Seafair Fleet Week

Note:

			1986-04-02 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)
			Ship's Crest

Back USPS routing marks (CA,J5,HA)...Pencil notation "duplicate"...PHILADELPHIA PA machine 1986-04-06...Blue rubberstamp "APR 9 1986"

No Image			1992-07-04 Locy Type 2tnu (DD top, 972 bottom)
			Independence Day 1992

Cachet by Gary R. Rogak

			1999-03-10 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) 1994 Locy type 9-1(n+u) (USS) 1994
			Category

Note:

No Image		No Image	2003-06-20 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			Decommissioning

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image			2003-06-20 USPS Pictorial
			Decommissioning

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image			2003-06-20 USPS Pictorial San Diego, CA
			Decommissioning

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

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