Cachet Category Ship Launching Page 2

Page 1  (1933 - 1936)
Page 2  (1937 - 1940)
Page 3  (1941 - 1944)
Page 4  (1945 - Present)

 

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 Full Cover Back Image	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Cachet Makers

 

			1937-05-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASH" USS Arizona BB-39
			C. E. Pierson P.W.

Notes: Dual Launching of the USS Patterson DD-392 and USS Jarvis DD-393.

 

			1937-05-06 Locy Type F   (USCS Illustration A-46a) "LAUNCHING / JARVIS / PATTERSON" USS Arizona BB-39
			M.B. Owens Deane C. Bartley

Note: Dual Launching of the USS Patterson DD-392 and USS Jarvis DD-393

 

			1937-05-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASH" USS Arizona BB-39
			C.E. Pierson M.T. Woolsey Chapter #40, USCS

Note: Launching of the USS Patterson DD-392

 

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) NAVY YARD / NORFOLK VA USS Lamson DD-367
			Norwood B Scatchard

Notes: Launching of the USS Blue DD-387

 

			1937-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) PORTSMOUTH / VA. USS Leary DD-158
			Naval Cachet And Cancel Club C Wright Richell

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of USS Helm DD-388 and USS Blue DD-387.

 

		No Image	1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			C Wright Richell

Notes: Cachet is thermographed. Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			David R Annis

Notes: Cachet is thermographed. Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			M Fay Muridge National Cachet Society Walter Czubay

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			P J (PeeJay) Ickeringill

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			Lloyd A Nace

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48. Not sure what role, if any, T. M. Holcombe had in creating this cachet.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48. Not sure what role, if any, T. M. Holcombe had in creating this cachet.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3 (TBB) ALOHA USS / HONOLULU US Receiving Ship Brooklyn NY
			James Chun Elsie Lee

Notes: Cachet is thermographed. Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) HONOLULU / LAUNCHED USS Dunlap DD-384
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1937-08-26 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) HONOLULU / LAUNCHED USS Dunlap DD-384
			Frederick Horton

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Honolulu CL-48.

 

			1938-02-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF" USS Arizona BB-39
			C. Wright Richell Melton M. Parker J. P. Clark

Cachet is thermographed. Launching of the USS Maury DD-401.
This cachet is also seen in a green color.

 

			1938-03-15 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) MARE ISLAND / CALIF USS Vega AK-17
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of USS Sturgeon SS-187

 

		No Image	1938-04-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) NAVY YARD / NORFOLK VA USS Yorktown CV-5
			Cachet Maker

Notes: Launching of the USS St. Louis CL-49

 

			1938-04-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) NAVY YARD / NORFOLK VA USS Yorktown CV-5
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Launching of the USS St. Louis CL-49

 

			1938-05-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-TBT) N.N.Y. / PORTS, VA. USS Jacob Jones DD-130
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Launching of the USS Rowan DD-405
Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

 

			1938-08-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) NAVY YARD / BROOKLYN USS Honolulu CL-48
			Frederick Horton Loring W Stannard

Notes: Cachet commemorates the launching of the USS Helena CL-50.

 

			1939-04-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) BREMERTON / WASHINGTON USS Nevada BB-36
			Lloyd A Nace T M Holcombe Deane C Bartley

Notes: Cachet is thermographed. Cachet commemorates the launching of USS Wilson DD-408

 

			1940-04-20 Locy Type 6dep-1 Navy Yard Philadelphia PA
			T M Holcombe Lloyd A Nace

Notes: Cachet commemorates launching of USS Curtiss AV-4
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1940-04-20 Locy Type 2 Marine Barracks League Island Philadelphia PA
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Cachet commemorates launching of USS Curtiss AV-4

 

			1940-05-16 Locy Type 2 Bremerton Navy Yard
			Lloyd A Nace T M Holcombe

Notes: Launching of USS Biscayne AGC-18.

 

			1940-05-16 Locy Type 2 Bremerton Navy Yard
			R C Berg

Notes: Commemorates launching of USS Charles F Hughes DD-428 and USS Monssen DD-436

 

			1940-06-13 Locy Type 7dit NAVY YARD STA. Brooklyn Navy Yard
			Dr S E Hutnick

Notes: Launching of USS North Carolina BB-55

 

		No Image	1940-09-04 Portsmouth, N.H. Navy Yard
			Francis C Pace

Notes: Launch of the USS Grayling SS-209

 

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