Wasp CVS 18 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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

 

			1943-10-22 Boston MA Registered 1943-10-23 Boston MA (North Postal Annex) Registered
			Official Business

Commissioning Detail

 

N/A		N/A	1944-12-02 Locy Type 2z
			Officer's Mail via Polar Air Mail

Censored, WWII use. From the Steve Shay collection.

 

			1944-12-29 Locy Type 2z
			Category

Censored, WWII use

 

			1945-09-15 Locy Type 2rtz
			Category

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			1945-09-30 Locy Type 2rtz
			Category

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			1945-10-27 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-12
			Navy Day 1945

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No Image			1946-01-28 Locy Type 2(n) (CV)
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1946-02-15 Locy Type 2(n) (CV)
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

			1946-11-19 Locy Type 2(n) (CV) Bayonne N.J Naval Supply Depot Sta.
			Last Day in Commission

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			1951-10-09 Locy Type 2r
			First Day Postal Service (Posted a month late)

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

			1952-05-15 Locy Type 2pr Locy Type 9efu
			Category

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			1961-05-08 Locy Type 7tnu (Large Letters)
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1963-05-15 Locy Type 7tnu (small letters)
			Back-up Recovery Ship

Add-on Cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

No Image			1964-05-16 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-12c
			Recovery Force

Cachet by Frederick L. Karcher

 

No Image			1965-03-15 Locy Type 2(n+) (CVS,USS)
			Category

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			1965-06-07 Locy Type 7tnu (Large Letters)
			Gemini 4 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck

 

N/A		N/A	1965-10-25 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS,"CVS")
			GEMINI Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck. From the Jon Howard collection.
Background History - This cover is postmarked for what space collectors call the Gemini-6 Scrub. Gemini-6 was supposed to be launched on this day to rendezvous with an earlier launched Agena target vehicle. The Atlas booster carrying the Agena failed and went in the water. NASA scrubbed the Gemini-6 launch as there was no target to preform a rendezvous with. USS Wasp was to be the prime recovery ship for the mission. Many ships in the recovery fleet held their covers until the rescheduled flight took place in December. However, a number of ships did postmark covers on the scrub date and send them to collectors. Scrub covers from the prime ship USS Wasp are extremely scarce. That, along with both the Beck RSC and ship’s RSC and the ship’s return address all combine to make a very desirable cover!

 

			1965-12-18 Locy Type 7tnu (Large Letters)
			Gemini 7 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck

 

No Image			1966-06-06 Locy Type 2(n+) (CVS,USS)
			Gemini 9 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck

 

No Image			1966-06-06 Locy Type 7tnu (Small letters)
			Gemini 9 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck

 

No Image			1966-06-06 Locy Type 7tnu (Small letters)
			Gemini 9 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck, additional typed text by addressee W. E. Pegg

 

No Image			1966-06-06 Locy Type 7tnu (Small letters)
			Gemini 9 Recovery Force

Cachet furnished by Morris W. Beck

 

N/A		N/A	1968-09-27 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-12c
			European Deployment

Add-on Cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

No Image			1970-11-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Category

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			1972-01-26 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Official Business

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			1972-02-23 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Ship's Crest

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