USS CASTOR AKS-1 Covers Page 1
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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 |
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1941-03-12 | |||
First Day in Commission |
Hutnick Cachet
Back black pen notations "52100"..."15045637"...Purple rubberstamp S.E. Hutnick return address
1941-03-12 | |||
Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington
1941-05-11 | |||
Cachet Maker: William S Linto
Official Mail
N/A |
1941-06-06 | ||
On June 6, 1941 CASTOR was at San Diego en route to Pearl Harbor for the first time. This was mailed during that 5-day stop. Interestingly, the ship already had rubber stamp with a Honolulu return address. Even that probably should have been Pearl Harbor instead.
Nothing on back of cover.
1941-11-26 | |||
Category |
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1941-11-26 | |||
Category |
Note: Although a philatelic cover, the back has signature of crewmember BM3/c Francis W. (“Frank”) Wittich (1918-2006)
Unknown Cachet
1941-12-02 | |||
Category |
Unknown Cachet
1943-04-01 | |||
Category |
Censored wartime (WWII) use
1945-10-27 | |||
Cachet Maker: Desmond D Jagyi.
No Image |
1945-11-21 | ||
Category |
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1951-03-21 | |||
First Day Postal Service |
Unknown cachet
No Image |
No Image |
1951-03-21 | |
First Day Postal Service |
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1951-04-18 | |||
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1951-09-12 | |||
Battleship |
Note:
No Image |
1955-01-08 | ||
Category |
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No Image |
1958-10-27 | ||
Category |
Note:
No Image |
1959-05-07 | ||
Category |
Back pencil notations cancel type
1962-03-20 | |||
Category |
Unknown Cachet Maker
1963-09-18 | |||
Category |
Unknown Cachet
Front typed notation "U.S.S. CASTOR (AKS-1)
No Image |
1963-11-11 | ||
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1966-07-09 | |||
Category |
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1966-12-15 | |||
Patriotic |
Unknown Cachet
1968-03-12 | |||
Category |
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