Cachet Maker USCS Chapter 74 USS Puget Sound

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

 

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			04/27/1968 - 01/27/1996
			USS Puget Sound AD-38

USCS Chapter #74 serving the Seattle/Tacoma area

 

			1978-08-01 USS Eagle WIX-327
			Seafair Fleet

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			1981-08-06 Locy Type 2-2et (FPO SF 96663) "OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT TWO" Locy Type 9-2e (FPO SF 96663) "OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT TWO" Oceanographic Unit 2
			Category

Note: Cachet also mentions USNS Dutton T-AGS-22

 

			1982-03-26
			Launching - HMAS Darwin FFG-44

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N/A		N/A	1982-06-14 USPS 4-bar Cancel Westport WA
			USCG Station Grays Harbor

Cachet by Don Abrahamson, sponsored by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

N/A			1982-09-18 Locy Type 2-1(n+) (D1,USS)
			Port Visit - USS Dixon AS-37

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			1984-08-03 Locy Type 2-1n+ (D1,USS) USS Fife DD-991
			Fleet Week Port Visit - Seattle

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N/A		N/A	1985-01-08 USPS Slogan Machine Cancel Baltimore MD USCGC Northland WMEC-904
			Collectors request

Signed by the CO. Cachet artist is Don Abrahamson. Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1985-05-30 Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USS) USS Vandegrift FFG-48
			First Missile Shot

Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

N/A		N/A	1986-03-17 Locy Type 2-1(n+)(USS) USS Germantown LSD-42
			Departing Seattle

Contributed by Tom Kean.

 

			1989-10-23
			Ship Commemorative - USCGC Hudson WLIC-801

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N/A			1990-08-04 Locy Type 9fy (USCGC / NEW YORK NY USPO) USCGC Polar Star WAGB-10
			200th Anniversary of the USCG

Cachet by Richard J. (Dick) Weber.

 

			1991-07-04 Locy Type 9-1(n+) (USS) Locy Type Meter OFR2 (#520280) ZIP 96629 USS Carl Vinson CVN-70
			Category

Cachet by Charles B. Hall and sponsored by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS

 

			1999-07-01 Locy Type 2-2mtn+(USS APO AP 96635-2780) USS Constellation CV-64
			Category

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			1999-12-25 Locy Type 2-2mt(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96661-3040) USS Bridge AOE-10
			Christmas Day

Cachet by Tom Armstrong, and sponsored by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS
Cover has postmarks from USS Bridge AOE-10, USS Camden AOE-2, USS Rainier AOE-7, USS Sacramento AOE-1, USS Carl Vinson CVN-70, and USS Fife DD-991.

 

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