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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

N/A		N/A	1968-06-22 USPO Machine Cancel Newport News VA
			Keel Laying

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N/A		N/A	1972-05-13 Locy Type 2 USS Hermitage LSD-34
			Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

No Image		No Image	1972-05-13 USPS Slogan "CHRISTENING OF / THE USS NIMITZ"
			Launching

Note:

No Image		No Image	1972-05-13 USPS Slogan "CHRISTENING OF / THE USS NIMITZ"
			Launching

Note:

No Image		No Image	1972-05-13 USPS Slogan "CHRISTENING OF / THE USS NIMITZ"
			Launching

Note:

			1972-05-13 USPS Slogan CHRISTENING OF / THE USS NIMITZ
			Ship Launching

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 61 Nuclear Ships and Bernhard M Vesper.

No Image			1975-03-03 Locy Type 2-1(n) (CVAN,USS)
			Sea Trials

Note:

			1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n)
			First Day in Commission

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			1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n)
			First Day in Commission

Note:

N/A		N/A	1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Commissioning

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Commissioning

Cachet by Morris W. Beck

N/A		N/A	1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Commissioning

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

N/A		N/A	1975-05-03 Locy Type FDC 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Commissioning

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1975-07-10 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

Official Ship's Cachet

No Image			1975-08-18 Locy Type P [2-2t(n) with "A" cut out]
			Category

Note:

No Image			1975-09-02 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (CVAN,USS,FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			30th Anniversary of V-J Day

Cachet Maker: Richard F. Hoffner and Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A		N/A	1975-09-10 Locy Type P [2-2t(n) with "A" cut out]
			Collector request

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1975-10-13 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

USN Bicentennial

N/A		N/A	1976-02-10 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

Official ship's cachet

N/A		N/A	1976-03-18 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

Official ship's cachet

N/A		N/A	1976-04-06 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

Official ship's cachet

N/A		N/A	1976-06-14 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector request

Official ship's cachet

N/A		N/A	1976-07-04 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector's Request

Independence Day

N/A		N/A	1978-01-11 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVAN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

			1978-06-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (CVN,USS,FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Note:

N/A		N/A	1978-06-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1978-06-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1978-06-28 Locy Type 2-2t(n+) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1978-06-28 Locy Type 7-2tn+ (09501)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1979-05-03 Locy Type 2-2t(n) (USS,"CVN",FPO NEW YORK 09501)
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1980-05-19 Locy Type 2-1n+ (USS)
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

			1980-05-26 Locy Type 2-1n+ (USS)
			Welcome Home

Nicholson Cachet

N/A		N/A	1980-10-01 Locy Type 7-2t(n+) (FPO 09542)
			Port Visit Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1983-03-03 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) (N-35) 1980
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1984-12-08 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) (N-35) 1980
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

N/A		N/A	1984-12-17 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) (N-35) 1980
			Collector's Request

Official Ship's Cachet

No Image		No Image	1985-02-22
			FDOI - Nimitz stamp

Note: Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

N/A		N/A	1986-01-29 USPS Pictorial "Philatelic Center" Newport News VA
			Collector's Request

Unsure if this is the NIMITZ silhouette but it could be, plus the stamp is Nimitz. So it is included as a novelty.

			1987-07-02 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-35
			New Homeport

USCS Chapter 4 Cachet

			1989-05-03 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Catalog Illustration N-35a
			Ship Birthday

Rogak Cachet

			1992-05-21 Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520272) ZIP 98780
			Ship Birthday - USS John Marshall SSN-611

Notes:

No Image			1992-06-03 Locy Type Meter OFR3 (#504246) ZIP 96697
			Category

Notes:

N/A		N/A	1992-12-25 2-1(n+) (USS) (N-35b)
			Collector's Request

Merry Christmas

			1993-08-01 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-35b Locy Type 2-1p(n+) USS TRUXTUN CGN-35
			Port Visit

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N/A		N/A	1993-08-01 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-35b Locy Type 2-1p(n+) USS TRUXTUN CGN-35
			Port Visit

Cachet by USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS

N/A		N/A	1993-09-19 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-35b
			Collector's request

Official Ships Cachet

N/A		N/A	1993-11-13 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration N-35b
			Collector's request

Official Ships Cachet

			1993-12-25 Locy Type 9-1(n+) (USS) USS Nimitz CVN-68 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USS Truxtun CGN-35 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS) USS Roanoke AOR-7 Locy Type 9-1(n+) (USS) USS California CGN-36 Locy Type 2n+ USS Sacramento AOE-1
			Merry Christmas

Note: Cachet Maker: Tom Armstrong

No Image			1994-01-10 Locy Type Meter FR2 (#8014019) ZIP 98780
			Category

Notes:

			1994-11-28 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96697-2820)
			Category

Note:

No Image			1996-05-20 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96697-2820)
			Returning to Home Port

Note: Cachet Maker: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

No Image			1997-07-01 Locy Type 9-1e(n+) (USS)
			At the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton WA, SCRAPPING is completed on the USS Seawolf SSN-575, USS Snook SSN-592, USS Patrick Henry SSN-599, USS Henry Clay SSBN-625 and the USS Baton Rouge SSN-689

Note: Cachet Maker: Tom Armstrong

No Image			2008-09-08 Locy Type F [CD-10]
			Category

Notes: Contributed by Bill Payden.

No Image		N/A	2010-05-03 Locy Type F
			35th Anniversary of Commissioning

cachet originally created for the Commissioning by Frederick L. Karcher

No Image		N/A	2010-05-03 Locy Type F
			35th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Michael F. Hebert

No Image		N/A	2015-05-03 USPS Pictorial Norfolk VA
			40th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Michael F. Hebert

No Image		N/A	2015-05-03 Locy Type F
			40th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Robert Jank

No Image		N/A	2015-05-03 USPS Pictorial Norfolk VA
			40th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

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