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

 

No Image		No Image	1953-1966 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Picture postcard

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No Image			1953-01-15 Locy Type FDPS 9efu USS Staten Island AGB-5
			First Day of Postal Service

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No Image			1953-01-22 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			No Image

Tazewell G. Nicholson Commissioning cachet. This is not a Commissioning cover.

 

		N/A	1953-08-12 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Nanook '53 Mailed at Resolute / Cornwallis Island

From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.

 

			1953-08-16 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Nanook '53

Letter Enclosed

 

			1953-08-16 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Nanook '53

Enclosed Letter

 

		N/A	1953-09-02 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Nanook '53 Mailed at Alert / Ellesmere Island

From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.

 

			1954-05-06 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9efu USS Staten Island AGB-5
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		No Image	1955-03-07 Locy Type 2 1956-09-25 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9efu
			Official Business

Cover made from cut pieces dated over a year apart

 

			1956-11-29 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II 1956-1957

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			1956-12-20 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II 1956-1957

Also postmarked with a USN Slogan Machine Cancel dated May 1 1956
Interesting note on back - "Filler card from Staten Island cover 12/20/56". Where's the cover now?
The mail clerk, Lisle A. Rose, later wrote "Assault on Eternity", the story of Admiral Byrd's Operation Highjump 1946-47.

 

			1957-01-01 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II 1956-1957

Picture postcard of the USS Staten Island AGB-5

 

			1957-01-01 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II 1956-1957

Picture postcard of the USS Staten Island AGB-5

 

			1957-01-11 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II 1956-1957

United Nations Airletter

 

			1957-02-11 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze II

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			1957-08-16 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Arctic Operations 1957

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			1958-11-24 Locy Type 2 Locy Type 9efu USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze IV

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			1958-12-22 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43

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			1959-01-15 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze IV

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			1959-02-11 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			International Geophysical Year / Wilkes Station

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			1959-09-05 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Ice Island T-3 / Arctic Ocean / IGY (International Geophysical Year)

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No Image			1959-09-05 Locy Type 2
			Ice Island T-3 / Arctic Ocean

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			1960-02-27 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Arctic Operations with USS Sargo SSN-583

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			1961-02-23 Locy Type 2
			Operation Deep Freeze

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			1961-02-23 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43

Cover created by Harvey Dolin
Note: The "1961 Amundsen Sea Cruise" straight-line marking was added by Richard Mayerson.
It is a FAKE marking having never been aboard the ship.

 

			1961-02-23 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Real-Photo Cachet

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			1961-02-23 Locy Type 2 USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43

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			1961-02-23 Locy Type 2
			Operation Deep Freeze

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			1962-09-29 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Category

Pre-printed ship's cachet and return address

 

			1962-12-10 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze / Task Force 43

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			1963-10-25 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze

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			1964-11-03 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze X 1964-1965

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			1965-02-01 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
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			1965-02-09 Locy Type 2 (USS) USS Staten Island AGB-5
			Operation Deep Freeze 1965

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