OtherUS Navy Yard Portsmouth New Hampshire

Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to covers with add-on cachets as well.

1. Portsmouth Naval Prison

 

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 Ship --------- Cachet Makers

 

			1926-08-05 Locy Type 2 Dial Text: "PORTSMOUTH, N.H. / U.S. NAVY YARD"
			Official Business

Return to USS S-11

 

			1926-12-13 Locy Type 1 Dial Text: "U.S. NAVY YARD / PORTSMOUTH, N.H."
			Category

Return to USS S-12

 

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 6g-1 Dial Text: "PORTSMOUTH, N.H. / NAVY YARD STA."
			Old Ironsides Chapter No. 1, USCS

Navy Day

 

			1933-10-19 Locy Type 6g-1
			Portsmouth NH Navy Yard Improvement Association

Notes: Cachet commemorates launching of USS Cachalot SS-170

 

			1940-09-04 Locy Type 6g-1
			Francis C Pace

Notes: Launching of USS Grayling SS-209

 

			1941-09-01 Locy Type 6g-1
			Category

Notes: Christensen Cachet

 

No Image		No Image	1943-07-12 USPO Machine Postmark Kittery ME
			Wilfred R. Cyr

Double Launching From Portsmouth Naval Shipyard - USS Picuda SS-382 - USS Pampanito SS-383

 

			1944-02-28 Locy Type 7di NAVY YARD BR
			Ship Launching - USS Sea Devil AGSS-400

Notes: Cachet Maker: E W Childs.

 

No Image			1945-12-14
			Cachet Maker

Note: Back typed notation "Sailfish 12-10-45-2"...Black pen notation "Decommissioned" Incorrect date as Sailfish Decomm. was 1945-10-27

 

		No Image	1948-10-27 Navy Day
			Unknown

Note:

 

			1964-10-19 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Naval Base Br." Portsmouth, NH
			Cachet Maker

Notes: Commissioning of USS Nathanael Greene SSBN-636
Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

		No Image	2000-06-08 USPS 4-bar "Naval Base Br." Portsmouth, NH USS Maine SSBN-741
			USS Maine Commissioning Committee Cachet. Notice incorrect hull number in the red box.

Note: Port Visit to Portsmouth, NH

 

		No Image	2000-06-12 USPS 3-bar "NAVAL SHIPYARD BICENTENNIAL" Portsmouth, NH USS Maine SSBN-741
			Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

Note: Port Visit to Portsmouth, NH

 

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