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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		No Image	1952-12-16 Locy Type 2 USS Van Valkenburgh DD-656
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

No Image		No Image	1955-10-08 Locy Type 2 USS Haynsworth DD-700
			Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

No Image			1956-04-14
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 3 Admiral Farragut.
The cachet is used as the postmark.

			1956-04-14 Locy Type FDC 2(n)
			Ship Commissioning

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 3 Admiral Farragut and Walter Czubay.

			1956-06-09 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9ef(nu)
			Category

Note:

			1957-06-10 Locy Type 7dity USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23b FIRST DAY OF ISSUE
			Category

Cachet Maker: Art Craft Company.

No Image		No Image	1957-06-10 Locy Type 7dity USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23b "FIRST DAY OF ISSUE"
			First Day of Issue, Sc. 1091

Cachet Maker: Artmaster

No Image			1962-02-25 Locy Type 2t(n+u)
			Category

Note:

			1965-12-25 Locy Type 2(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23d
			Christmas 1965

USCS Chapter 3 Cachet

			1968-03-17 Locy Type 7t(n+u) USCS Catalog Illustration S-23g
			St. Patrick's Day 1968

PEEJAY / USCS Chapter 3 Cachet

			1968-10-27 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS) Locy Type 9ef(n+u)
			Navy Day 1968

USCS Chapter 3 Cachet

			1971-11-11 Locy Type 7dit(n+u) (POW/MIA)
			Official Business

Note:

No Image			1972-05-19 Locy Type 7dit(n+u) (POW/MIA)
			Category

Note:

No Image			1980-10-06 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23i
			Category

Note:

N/A		N/A	1980-10-06 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)
			Last Day Postal Service before Overhaul

Printed cachet by Ronald Reeves

N/A			1981-04-14 USPS Machine Cancel<br/Philadelphia PA
			25th Anniversary

Rubber stamp cachet by Ron's Cachets

N/A		N/A	1981-12-19 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS)
			Undocking Today

Rubber stamp cachet by Ronald Reeves

No Image			1982-06-17 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-8
			Tall Ships 1982

Cachet by Rich Hoffner, sponsored by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image			1982-06-17 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-8
			Tall Ships 1982

Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

			1982-11-10 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23k
			Category

Note:

			1988-10-27 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Navy Day 1988

Rogak Cachet

			1990-11-26 Locy Type 2-1(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23e
			Category

Note:

			1992-02-27 Locy Type 9-1(nu) (USS)
			50th Anniversary of Battle of Java Sea

Note:

No Image		No Image	1992-07-04 Locy Type 2
			4th of July

Note: Cachet Maker: Gary R. Rogak

			1993-03-24 Locy Type 2-1(n+) USCS Catalog Illustration S-23f
			Category

Cachet Maker: Roger A Wentworth

No Image			1994-08-20 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-23l
			Deactivation

Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image		No Image	1994-09-30
			Decommissioning

Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

			1994-09-30 USPS Pictorial Cancel
			Ship Decommissioning

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 97 USS Los Angeles and Charles B Hall.

			1994-09-30 Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+) Locy Type LDC 9-1(n+u)
			Ship Decommissioning

Cachet Maker: Charles B Hall.

			1994-09-30 Locy Type LDC 2-1(n+) Locy Type LDC 9-1(n+u)
			Ship Decommissioning

Cachet Maker: Charles B Hall.
Same cover as above only showing postmarks instead of cachets.

No Image		No Image	1995-06-07
			Arrival at Philadelphia ISMF

Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image		No Image	1998-08-03
			Transferring to Newport, RI

Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

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