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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to covers with add-on cachets as well.

 

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 Ship --------- Cachet Makers

 

			1919-09-24 Locy Type Machine NAVY / YARD / STATION
			Category

Notes: Return to USS WISCONSIN BB-9

 

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 7di NAVY / YARD / STATION
			USCS Chapter 4 Stephen Decatur Meyer Tuchinsky Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Launching of USS Cassin DD-372

 

			1935-10-28 Locy Type 7di NAVY / YARD / STATION
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Wichita CA-45 Ship Launching - USS Cassin DD-372 Ship Launching - USS Shaw DD-373

Notes: Cachet Maker: Philadelphia Navy Yard Development Association.

 

No Image		No Image	1936-06-03 USPO Slogan Machine cancel "NAVY YARD STATION" Philadelphia, PA
			Unknown cachet

Launching of four USCG Treasury Class cutters, USCGC CAMPBELL WHEC-32, USCGC INGHAM WHEC-35, USCGC DUANE WHEC-33, USCGC TANEY WHEC-37. Back is clean

 

			1940-04-01 Type 6deip-1 PHILADELPHIA, PA / NAVY YARD STA
			Al Cohen

Note:

 

			1940-04-20 Locy Type 6deip-1
			Ship Launching - USS Curtiss AV-4

Notes: Cachet Makers: T M Holcombe and Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1941-09-02 Locy Type 6deip-1
			Category

Notes: Christensen Cachet

 

			1944-08-20 Locy Type 6deip-1
			Ship Launching - USS Antietam CVS-36 Ship Launching - USS Chicago CG-11 Ship Launching - USS Los Angeles CA-135

Notes: Cachet Maker: Philadelphia Navy Yard Development Association.
Not sure what role, if any, William Senerchia had in making the cachet.

 

			1944-08-20 Locy Type 6dep-1
			Ship Launching - USS Chicago CG-11 Ship Launching - USS Los Angeles CA-135 Ship Launching - USS Antietam CVS-36

Notes: Cachet Maker: Ralph P Werve.

 

			1948-10-27 Type 6deip-1
			Raymond W Milling

Notes: Cachet commemorates Recommissioning of the USS Cabot AVT-3.

 

N/A			1951-07-03 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "150th Anniversary / 1801 Philadelphia 1951 / Naval Shipyard" Philadelphia, PA
			Employees of the PNSY

Note:

 

No Image			1964-04-03 Locy Type 2 USS KIDD DD-661
			Morris W. Beck

Last Day of Postal Service
Backstamped with a "US Navy Yard Station", Philadelphia PA duplex postmark

 

No Image			1992-12-07 USPS Type 9 "US Naval Base Station" Philadelphia, PA
			Ronald Reeves

50th Anniversary of the launching of the USS New Jersey BB-62

 

No Image			2001-10-12 USPS Pictorial "PNSE Show Station" West Chester, PA
			Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

200th Anniversary of League Island/Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

 

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