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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

 

		No Image	1970-09-23 Newport News VA Machine
			Keel Laying

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		No Image	1970-09-23 Newport News VA Machine
			Keel Laying

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No Image		No Image	1970-09-23 Newport News VA Machine
			Keel Laying

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No Image		No Image	1971-09-22 Locy Type 2 USS WACCAMAW AO-109
			Launching

Fred Karcher Cachet

 

No Image			1971-09-22 Newport News VA Slogan "Christening Of / The USS / California"
			Launching

Fred Karcher Cachet

 

		No Image	1971-09-22 Newport News VA Slogan "Christening Of / The USS / California"
			Launching

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			1974-02-16
			Commissioning

Note:Booklet courtesy of Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1975-07-01 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CGN,USS)
			Port Visit Port Everglades, FL

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			1979-05-19 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CGN,USS)
			Port Visit Port Everglades, FL

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			1981-12-04 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CGN,USS)
			Category

Signed by CO

 

No Image			1988-10-24 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			U.N. Day

Herb Gordon Cachet

 

No Image			1989-02-16 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			15th Anniversary

Tom Armstrong Cachet

 

No Image			1989-08-03 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Port Visit

Tom Armstrong / USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS Cachet

 

No Image			1990-04-16 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)
			Entered Drydock #4 Today

Tom Armstrong Cachet

 

No Image			1990-05-18 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Stamp First Day of Issue

Tom Armstrong Cachet

 

No Image			1990-07-04 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Independence Day

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1990-11-15 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Official Business

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			1990-12-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Christmas 1990

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No Image			1991-01-01 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta. Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USS TRUXTUN CGN-35 Locy Type 9-1n (USS,USN) USS CAMDEN AOE-2 Locy Type 9-1nu (USS,USN) USS CARL VINSON CVN-70 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USS NIMITZ CVN-68
			Happy New Year

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1991-12-07 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Pearl Harbor Day

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1991-12-21 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)
			Official Business Change of Command

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

			1991-12-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Christmas 1991

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1992-09-28 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Category

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

		No Image	1992-12-25 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Christmas 1992

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1993-01-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			The USS California leaves Puget Sound Naval Shipyard today

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1993-12-25 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USS NIMITZ CVN-68 Locy Type 2-1p(n+) (USS) USS TRUXTUN CGN-35 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USS SACRAMENTO AOE-1 Locy Type 2-1(n+) USS ROANOKE AOR-7
			Christmas 1993

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image		No Image	1993-12-25 Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Christmas 1993

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image		No Image	1994-02-16 Locy Type 2(n) (USS) bars obscured Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CGN,USS) bars obscured Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			20th Anniversary

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image		No Image	1994-02-16 Locy Type 2(n) (USS) bars obscured Locy Type 2t(n+u) (CGN,USS) bars obscured Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS,closing paren. missing)
			20th Anniversary

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1994-06-15 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			World War Two 1941-45

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

			1994-06-15 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS,closing paren. missing)
			Ship's Photo Postcard

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image		No Image	1994-02-16 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS) USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN CVN-72 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) USS SACRAMENTO AOE-1 Bremerton WA Naval Base Sta.
			Christmas 1995

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1996-07-27 Irving CA Pictorial "West Coast Stamp & Cover Fest Station"
			USCS 40th Convention, Cachet honors the USS California

USS Los Angeles Chapter No. 97, USCS Cachet

 

No Image			1996-07-27 Locy Type 2t(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163)
			Scrapping is completed at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton WA on the USS DACE SSN-607 USS WHALE SSN-638 USS PUFFER SSN-652 USS BERGALL SSN-667

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1997-10-03 Locy Type 2t(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163)
			Change of Command

Note: Tom Armstrong

 

No Image		No Image	1998-08-28 Locy Type LDPS 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163) Locy Type LDPS 9-1(n+u)
			Deactivation Ceremony

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS Cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1998-08-28 Locy Type LDPS 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163)
			Deactivation Ceremony

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1998-09-18 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163)
			Final Journey

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1998-12-25 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1163)
			Christmas

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

No Image			1999-07-09 Locy Type LDC F
			Decommissioning

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS Cachet

 

No Image			1999-07-09 Locy Type LDC F
			Decommissioning

Donald R. Wilson Cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1999-07-09 Locy Type LDC F
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1999-07-09 Locy Type LDC F
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1999-07-09 Locy Type LDC F
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	2000-11-29 USPS Type 9 Cancel "Naval Base Sta." Bremerton WA
			Scrapping Completed

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	2000-11-29 USPS Type 9 Cancel "Naval Base Sta." Bremerton WA
			Scrapping Completed

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	2012-07-17 USPS Pictorial Postmark "United States Navy / Week Station" Sacramento CA
			Honoring the California's

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

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