USS SACRAMENTO PG-19 Covers Page 2

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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.

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The USS SACRAMENTO arrived at Shanghai, China, on 1 April 1932 and remained in adjacent waters throughout the gradually worsening crisis, just short of war, during the rest of the 1930s. With other U.S. forces, she helped to protect national interests during this period. Ordered home toward the end of the decade, the veteran gunboat departed Cavite Philippines on 12 January 1939 for New York, via the Mediterranean. She earned the nickname "the Galloping Ghost of the China Coast".

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Homeward Bound From The Orient Trip 1938-1939

 

N/A		N/A	1938-12-23 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1939-01-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "CAVITE - PI"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-01-19 Locy Type F "CROSSING / EQUATOR" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-01-21 Hand Cancel Singapore
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-01-22 Locy Type F "SINGAPORE / STRAITS.S." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-01-24 Locy Type F "SINGAPORE / STRAITS.S." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Cacheted. Postmark on the back, "Paquebot / Singapore" dated 25 January 1939. From the Gregory Finnegan collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-01-24 Hand Cancel Singapore
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-01-27 Roller Cancel Penang Malaysia
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-01-28 Locy Type F "PENANG / STRAITS.S." USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11 Paquebot Cancel Penang Malaysia
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-02-06 Hand Cancel Colombo Ceylon
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Registered. From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-06 Hand Cancel Colombo Ceylon
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Registered. From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-06 Locy Type F "COLOMBO / CEYLON" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-09 Hand Cancel Colombo Ceylon
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-18 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "MALE-ATOLL /MALDIVES IS"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-25 Hand Cancel Bombay India
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-25 Hand Cancel "APOLLO BANDAR" Bombay India
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-02-25 Locy Type F "BOMBAY / INDIA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-03-13 Hand Cancel Colony of Aden
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-03-13 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "ADEN- / ARABIA"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-03-19 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "SUEZ / EGYPT"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-03-19 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "SUEZ / EGYPT"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

			1939-03-20 Hand Cancel Suez
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Registered. From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-03-25 Hand Cancel Egypt
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-03-25 Locy Type F "ALEXANDRIA / EGYPT" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-11
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-03-27 Hand Cancel Alexandria Egypt
			Homeward Bound Cachet

From the Steve Shay collection.

 

N/A			1939-07-21 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "SALVAGE / AREA"
			Homeward Bound Cachet

Salvage Area refers to Sacramento's use as the Station Ship for the USS Squalus SS-192 salvage operation.

 

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