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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

 

N/A			1917-01-21 Locy Type 3 (AC) "KEY WEST / FLORIDA"
			Sailor Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

			1917-04-21 Locy Type 3 (AC) (with provisional bars)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use on safe arrival card
Back pre-printed message with pen fill in

 

N/A			1917-05-16 Locy Type 3 (AC)
			Censored Sailor Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

			1918-03-26 Locy Type 1z
			Official Business

Censored wartime (WWI) use

 

			1920-06-21 Locy Type 1u
			Category

Postcard use
"U. S. N."

 

No Image			1923-12-15 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Note:

 

N/A			1924-10-07 Locy Type 3s "SUBMARINE / TENDER"
			Sailor Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

N/A			1926-00-15 Locy Type 3s
			Sailor Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

N/A		N/A	c 1926 Locy Type SLK
			Straight Line Killer

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

			1927-01-27 Locy Type 9v 1927-01-29 New Haven CT Registered 1927-01-31 Unreadable M.O.B.
			Category

Return to USS S-12

 

			1927-06-03 Locy Type 9v 1927-06-07 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Category

Reduced at right
Return to USS S-9

 

N/A			1927-06-20 Locy Type 3s "JOIN / THE NAVY"
			Sailor Mail

Courtesy of the Jim Myerson Collection.

 

No Image			1927-02-25 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-74a
			Category

Registered mark on reduced piece

 

No Image			1928-05-25 Locy Type 3s "JOIN / THE NAVY"
			Category

Note:

 

			1928-08-10 Locy Type 9v 1928-08-12 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Official Business

Return to USS S-8

 

			1929-06-14 Locy Type 5bs (C,OOX) "NEW LONDON / CON"
			Official Business

Return to USS S-7

 

No Image			1930-11-28 Locy Type 5s (C) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PA"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

No Image		No Image	1932 Locy Type 5hks "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

			1932-01-12 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Back side contains signature of Navy Mail Clerk: J. H. Baker (?)

 

No Image			1932-06-29 Locy Type 5hks "MARE ISLAND / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note: Back purple SANTA ANA CALIF. GEN. DEL. 1932-06-30 CDS

 

N/A		N/A	1932-10-27 Locy Type 5hks "SAN / DIEGO"
			Navy Day

Cachet by Harry Ioor

 

			1933-02-01 Locy Type 5hks "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Official Business

Note:

 

		No Image	1934-05-29 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) WASHINGTON / D.C.
			Port Visit - Washington D.C.

Note:

 

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: Henry Kraus

 

No Image			1934-08-28 Locy Type 3 "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1934-09-07 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Port Visit

Manley Cachet

 

			1934-09-07 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) "PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII"
			Port Visit

Manley Cachet

 

			1934-09-07 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) PEARL HARBOR / HAWAII
			Hawaii

Cachet Makers: Robert L Manley and C Wright Richell
USCS 152 is Robert Manley

 

			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-BBB) "NAVY DAY / AT SEA"
			Navy Day 1934

Note:

 

No Image			1935-08-13 Locy Type F "SUBMARINE BASE / NEW LONDON" USCS Catalog Illustration CD-2
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

No Image			1935-09-02 Locy Type 3 "LABOR DAY / SAN DIEGO"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

N/A		N/A	1936-02-12 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			Abraham Lincoln's birthday

Cachet by. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

 

		No Image	1936-07-04 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "COCO SOLO / CANAL ZONE"
			Independence Day

Cachet by the Coco Solo Chapter No. 41, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1939-08-27 Locy Type 3r(A-BBT) "SYDNEY ISL / PHOENIX GR"
			1939 Hydrographic Survey

Note: Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-08-31 Locy Type 3r(A-BBT) "HULL ISL / PHOENIX GR"
			1939 Hydrographic Survey

Note: Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-11-05 Locy Type 3r(A-BBT) "GARDNERS ILS / PHOENIX GR"
			1939 Hydrographic Survey

Note: Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-12-05 Locy Type 3r(A-BBT) "MC KEAN ILS / PHOENIX GR"
			1939 Hydrographic Survey

Note: Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-12-19 Locy Type 9efw
			Collectors request

Cancel not "tied" (no postal ink on cover) to cover. Possible case of "Cancelled to Order" favor postmark and stamps later applied to blank envelopes. Look closely at the postmark illustration with special attention to the center perforations.

 

No Image			1940-03-21 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note:

 

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