HANCOCK CV 19 Covers Page 1

 
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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

 

N/A		N/A	1944-01-24 USPO Machine Cancel Quincy MA
			Launching

From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1944-06-30 Locy Type 2z
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1944-10-03 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-05-12 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-09-02 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-09-24 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8a
			Tokyo Bay

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			1945-10-27 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8b
			Navy Day 1945

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			1946-01-25 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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			1946-01-30 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

			1946-04-25 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Note: Postmark on back is for U.S. Navy Branch 10548 (location unknown). See Branch Numbers for additional shore-based branch postmarks.

 

			1954-02-15 Locy Type FDC 2
			First Day Recommissioned

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			1954-12-05 Locy Type 2
			USS HANCOCK CVA-19

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			1956-03-22 Locy Type 2(n+)
			U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

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			1958-10-07 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8c
			U.S. Navy

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No Image			1964-06-24 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8d
			Category

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			1969-10-27 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS) 1963
			Ship's Crest

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No Image			1972-02-29 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS) 1971
			Leap Year

Note: Add-on cachet by - Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1974-04-15 Locy Type 9efu(n+) (USS,N.Y.) Locy Type PPR USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8e
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 1 Old Ironsides and Frederick L Karcher.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1974-04-15 Locy Type PPR USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-8e
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Makers: Frederick L Karcher and USCS Chapter 1 Old Ironsides.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

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