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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

			1939-09-25 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBT) PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINIA USS Mustin DD-413
			Ship Keel Laying

Note: Cachet Maker: Dr. S. E. Hutnick.

			1939-09-25 Locy Type 3r (A-TBT) PORTSMOUTH / VIRGINIA] USS Sirius AK-15
			Ship Keel Laying

Note: Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson and C Wright Richell.

N/A			1940-12-14 Locy Type 5hks USS Vega AK-17
			Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G Nicholson. From the Ronald Finger collection.

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 THE FIRST / WATCH
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Note: Cachet Maker: Dr. S. E. Hutnick

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 THE FIRST / WATCH
			Category

Note: Cachet Makers: A M Chester and Deane C Bartley

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 THE FIRST / WATCH
			Ship First Day Of Postal Service

Note: Cachet Makers: Tazewell G Nicholson and C Wright Richell.

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 THE FIRST / WATCH
			Patriotic - U.S. Navy

Note: Cachet Makers: J Robert Bund and Robert Stoner.

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 "THE FIRST / WATCH"
			First Day in Commission

Muridge Cachet

 

			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 9x
			Category

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			1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 9fw
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1941-10-20 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-OBO) "THE FIRST / WATCH"
			Ship Commissioning

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

N/A		N/A	1941-11-01 Locy Type 3 (A-OBO)
			Commissioning cachet

From the Liam McGovern collection.

 

			1942-03-27 Locy Type 3z (BTT)
			Official Business

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			1942-07-19 Locy Type 3z (BTT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

N/A		N/A	1983-10-26 USPS Type 9 Annapolis MD
			40th Anniversary of Sinking

Cachet by Wayne A. Forester

 

			2002-04-18 USPS Pictorial Postmark "60th Anniversary Station" Halifax VA
			60th Anniversary of Doolittle Raid

Cachet by Alvin Eckert

 

N/A		N/A	2016-10-20 USPS Type 12 Belmont MI
			75th Anniversary of Commissioning

Cachet by Donald Lawson

 

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