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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 Ship --------- Category

 

N/A		N/A	1964-05-27 USPO Machine Cancel Quincy MA
			Keel Laying

Cachet by Malcolm C. Walker, sponsored by the Nuclear Ships Chapter No. 61, USCS. Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-10-14 USPO Machine Cancel Quincy MA
			Launching

Cachet by Morris W. Beck. Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

N/A		N/A	1967-01-18 USPO Machine Cancel Boston MA
			Collectors request.

Ships cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1968-10-12 USPO Machine Cancel Quincy, MA
			Commissioning

Cachet by the General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division.

 

N/A		N/A	1973-03-12 USPS Slogan Machine Cancel "SUBMARINE BASE STA." Groton, CT
			Overhaul

Ships cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1983-10-12 USPS CDS "Quincy Br." Boston MA
			15th Anniversary

Cachet by Robert D. Rawlins, sponsored by Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS.

 

N/A		N/A	1988-10-12 USPS CDS "Quincy Br." Boston MA
			20th Anniversary

Ships cachet. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1996-06-25 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USS Nimitz CVN-68
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Roger A. Wentworth

 

N/A		N/A	1996-06-25 USPS Type 9 "Naval Base Station" Bremerton WA
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1996-06-25 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS) USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
			Decommissioning

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS.

 

N/A		N/A	1997-02-05 Locy Type 2 USS California CGN-36
			Scrapping is completed at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton WA on the USS Dace SSN-607, USS Whale SSN-638, USS Puffer SSN-652 and the USS Bergall SSN-667.

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

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