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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	1970-08-15 2t(n+u) USS VERMILION LKA-107
			Ship Keel Laying

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

		No Image	1970-08-15
			Ship Keel Laying

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

 

N/A		N/A	1970-08-15 USPO Machine Cancel Newport News VA
			Keel Laying

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		No Image	1975-10-11
			Ship Launching

Cachet Maker: Frederick L Karcher

 

			1975-10-11
			Ship Launching: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 Ship Christening: USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 Ship Keel Laying: USS Carl Vinson CVN-70

Note: Cachet Maker: Newport News Shipbuilding

 

No Image			1975-10-11
			Cachet Category

Note: This is an insert that was inside the cover above.

 

			1975-10-11 USPS Slogan
			Launching & Christening

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N/A		N/A	1975-10-11 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Christening / Of the USS / Dwight D. Eisenhower" Newport News VA
			Christening and Launching

Cachet by the USS America Chapter No. 71, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1975-10-11 Locy Type 2 USS Forrestal CVA-59
			Christening and Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

N/A		N/A	1977-07-30 USPS Machine Cancel Newport News VA
			Sea Trials

Cachet by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Philatelic and Historical Society.

 

N/A		N/A	1977-08-01 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Sea Trials

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			1977-08-01 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Sea Trials

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			1977-08-01 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Sea Trials

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			1977-09-12 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Delivered to the USN

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N/A		N/A	1977-10-18 Locy Type FDC 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Commissioning

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			1977-10-18 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Ship Commissioning

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			1977-10-18 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Ship Commissioning

Note: This is a closeup of the cachet on the back of the cover above.

 

			1977-10-18 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Ship Commissioning

Note: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 61 Nuclear Ships and Kenneth Bieda

 

N/A		N/A	1978-03-17 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Presidential Visit

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			1978-07-08 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			70th Anniversary of the US Naval Postal Service.

Note: Cachet Makers: John E Gill and USCS Chapter 1 Old Ironsides.

 

			1978-07-19 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1980-07-23 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Collectors request

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N/A		N/A	1980-12-22 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Welcome Home from Deployment

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson

 

N/A		N/A	1981-01-13 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Collectors request

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			1981-05-06 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Howard Tiffner

 

N/A		N/A	1984-10-01 Locy Type 7t(nu) (USS)
			Collectors request

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N/A		N/A	1984-11-14 Locy Type 7t(nu) (USS)
			Collectors request

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N/A		N/A	1989-05-31 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS) (large letters)
			Collectors request

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			1994-10-04 Locy Type 2-1(n) (USS)
			Category

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			1996-01-29 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D2,USS) Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS)
			Dwight D. Eisenhower

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			1998-02-02 Locy Type Meter FR2 (#9004339) ZIP 09532 ("D.D.")
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Charles B Hall.

 

			1998-11-07 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (USS)
			Ship's Crest

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N/A		N/A	2007-10-18 Locy Type 12
			30th Anniversary

Cachet by Bill Payden

 

N/A		N/A	2007-10-18 Locy Type 12
			30th Anniversary

Cachet by Mike Brock

 

N/A		N/A	2008-06-06 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration CD-10
			100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet

Cachet by Wolfgang Hechler

 

N/A			2008-08-21 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration CD-10
			100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet

Note: Contributed by Bill Payden.

 

N/A		N/A	2009-01-26 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration CD-10
			100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet

Serviced by Rich Hoffner

 

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