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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

			1959-10-03 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "MARE ISLAND / STA." Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo CA
			Launching

Cachet by Cunningham, and sponsored by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard National Association of Supervisors Local 16.

N/A		N/A	1959-10-03 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "MARE ISLAND / STA." Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo CA
			Launching

Cachet by George H. Goldey (Goldcraft Cachets). From the George Marcincin collection.

N/A		N/A	1959-12-29 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Fight TB / Support Your / TB Association" Vallejo CA
			Sea Trials

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1961-03-07 Canal Zone "Paquebot" Duplex Cancel Balboa Canal Zone
			Port Visit

Hand drawn cachet by Janius Eyerman. From the Richard F. Hoffner collection.

			1961-03-20 Locy Type 2t(n+u) USS Observation Island EAG-154
			Missile firing

At Cape Canaveral, Florida. TR fired her first Polaris A1 missile on March 20 1961.

N/A		N/A	1961-03-23 USPO 4-bar Cancel Port Canaveral FL
			Missile firing

Cachet by George H. Goldey (Goldcraft Cachets). From the George Marcincin collection.

N/A		N/A	1961-04-19 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			Welcome to the East Coast

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1961-04-19 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			First FBM Submarine To Transit The Panama Canal, 7 March 1961.

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1961-05-02 USPO Slogan Machine cancel "Submarine Base Branch" Groton CT
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington

N/A		N/A	1961-05-04 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1961-07-26 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1962-06-05 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet (in pencil) by Alton M. (Budd) Arrington, cachet (black ink) by Joe Lynch and then colored by Rich Hoffner

N/A		N/A	1964-05-05 Locy Type 7 USS Proteus AS 19
			Collectors request

Official Ship cachet

N/A		N/A	1965-11-13 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Sta." Groton CT
			Collectors request

Official Ship cachet

N/A		N/A	1967-04-28 USPO Machine Cancel Patrick Air Force Base FL
			Missile firing

Typed & rubber stamp cachet. From the George Marcincin collection.

N/A		N/A	1974-05-31 USPS Machine Cancel Cape Canaveral FL
			Missile firing

Cachet by George H. Goldey (Goldcraft Cachets). From the George Marcincin collection.

N/A		N/A	1981-02-28 USPS Type 9 Bremerton WA
			Decommissioning

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

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