HOPPER DDG 70
Ship Name and Designation History
This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.
Arleigh Burke Class (Flight I) Guided Missile Destroyer Keel Laid 26 February 1995 - Launched 6 January 1996 |
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- USS Hopper DDG-70 Covers Page 1 (1996-2008)
Postmarks
This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.
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THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
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existing example.
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Postmark Date |
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Locy Type |
1997-09-06 |
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Commissioning, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS
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Locy Type |
1998-01-21 |
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Ship's cachet, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler
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Locy Type |
2002-11-21 |
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Ship's cachet, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler
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Locy Type |
1998-02-17 |
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Maiden Deployment, cachet by Roger A. Wentworth
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Locy Type |
1998-10-27 |
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Navy Day, cachet by Roger A. Wentworth
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Locy Type |
2002-11-21 |
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Ship's cachet, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler
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Locy Type |
2011-10-07 |
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Courtesy of the USCS Postmark Survey 2011-2012
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Locy Type |
2011-10-07 |
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Courtesy of the USCS Postmark Survey 2011-2012
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Locy Type F |
2008-10-17 |
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100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet. Ship's cachet, serviced by Wolfgang Hechler
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USPS 4-bar |
1996-01-06 |
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Launching, cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS
Other Information
Named in Honor of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9 1906 – January 1 1992) an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Because of the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace".
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