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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			1935-09-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTT) NAVY YARD / PHILA, PA. USS Aylwin DD-355
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Blue DD-387 Ship Keel Laying - USS Helm DD-388

Notes: Cachet Makers: Dr S E Hutnick and Desmond D Jagyi

 

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) "NAVY YARD / NORFOLK VA" USS Lamson DD-367
			Launching of USS Blue DD-387

Notes: Cachet Maker: Norwood B Scatchard

 

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) PORTSMOUTH / VA. USS Leary DD-158
			Ship Launching - USS Helm DD-388 Ship Launching - USS Blue DD-387

Notes: Cachet Makers: Naval Cachet And Cancel Club and C Wright Richell

			1937-08-14 Locy Type FDC 3r "1-ST-DAY / COMM."
			Commissioning Cachet

Note: Cachet Maker: Leo Schupp...Cachet shows wrong hull as #378
Back is clean

		No Image	1937-08-14 Locy Type FDC 3r "1-ST-DAY / COMM."
			Commissioning

Cachet Maker: Dr. Hutnick

		No Image	1937-08-14 Locy Type FDC 3r "1-ST-DAY / COMM."
			Commissioning

Cachet Maker: Walt Czubay

 

			1937-08-14 Locy Type FDC 3r (AC-TTB) 1-ST-DAY / COMM
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Frederick Horton

 

			1937-08-14 Locy Type FDC 3r (AC-TTB) 1-ST-DAY / COMM
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Cachet Maker: Norfolk Cover Service

 

			1937-08-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) 1-ST DAY / COMM
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Notes: Cachet Maker: Naval Cachet And Cancel Club.
Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

 

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) NAVY / DAY
			Navy Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Meyer Tuchinsky.
Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

 

			1937-11-15 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) SAN JUAN / PUERTO RICO
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Notes: Cachet Makers: Naval Cachet And Cancel Club and C Wright Richell

 

			1937-11-15 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) SAN JUAN / PUERTO RICO
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Notes: Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed.

 

No Image		No Image	1937-12-05 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) HAVANA / CUBA
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Notes: Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed.

No Image			1937-12-22 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) "PORTSMOUTH / VA-"
			Category

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		No Image	1938-09-06 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF-"
			Category

Note: Liddell add on cachet

			1938-10-03 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF-"
			Category

Crosby Cachet

No Image			1938-11-28 Locy Type 3r (AC-TTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
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No Image			1940-03-26 Locy Type 6ep(2)
			Commercial use

Note: Back is clean

			1940-08-14 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			Data Cachet

Note: Cachet Maker: Harrington
Front pencil notation "SUNK"...Back black rubberstamp Ted Harrington return address

 

No Image			1941-01-05 Locy Type 3r (A-BTT) PEARL HARBOR / OAHU, T.H.
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