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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	1965-02-12 USPO Machine Cancel Pascagoula MS
			Launching

Cachet by Morris W. Beck

 

			1966-07-27 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)
			USS GEORGE BANCROFT SSBN-643

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			1966-07-27 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)
			Ship Commemorative - USS George Bancroft SSBN-643

Note: Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

			1967-10-11 Locy Type 2(n+) (USS)
			USS HENRY L. STIMSON SSBN-655

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			1970-11-15 Locy Type 7t(nu) (USS)
			Ship Commemorative - USS George Washington SSBN-598

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 61 Nuclear Ships and Bernhard M Vesper.
Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

			1971-10-15 Locy Type 7dit(nu) (USS,POW/MIA) "REMEMBERING OUR / POW - MIA'S CAUSE / FOR FREEDOM"
			Ship's Crest

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N/A			1974-03-05 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS, "CANAOPUS")
			Misspelling of ships name.

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			1983-06-30 Locy Type 2-1n+ (D2,USS)
			Ship's Crest

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			1983-07-29 Locy Type 7dit(nu) (USS, "READY TO SERVE / READY FOR SERVICE / TOP TENDER CAN DO") Locy Type 9-2t(n+) (USS, FPO MIAMI 34087)
			Ship's crest

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			1988-01-27 Locy Type 2-1n+ (D1,USS)
			USS SAND LANCE SSN-660

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			1989-07-04 Locy Type 2-1n+ (D1,USS)
			Independence Day 1989

Rogak Cachet

 

			1991-07-04 Locy Type 2-1n+ (D2,USS)
			Independence Day 1991

Rogak Cachet

 

			1992-05-12 Locy Type 2-1tn+ USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-35
			Ship's Crest

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			1994-11-30 Locy Type LDC 2-1tn+ USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. C-35
			Category

Cachet Maker: Charles B Hall.
The Vietnam Wall cachet is by C.B. Hall. The 'Last Day in Commission' rubberstamp and ship's cachet may have been applied by the postal clerk whose signature appears above the address for C.B. Hall in the lower right corner.

 

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