SPENCER WHEC 36 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

 

			1941-09-25 1946-01-24 1967-04-26
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			1970-08-11 1973-06-26 1974-01-15
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			1951-11-28 1973-04-09 1937-01-06
			Received Markings Launching Postmark

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N/A		N/A	1937-01-06 Locy Type 3ty (BBT) "LAUNCHING U.S.C.G. / JOHN C SPENCER" US Receiving Ship, Brooklyn (USS SEATTLE)
			Launching

Cover created by NMC Elmer D. La Vergne, ANCS #397

 

N/A		N/A	1941-09-25 USPO Machine Cancel Staten Island NY
			Ship's mail

WPG-70

 

N/A		N/A	1943-10-13 Locy Type 3z
			"V" mail

WPG-70. Postmark not from CGC SPENCER. Post Office Established on SPENCER October 5, 1944.

 

N/A		N/A	1943-10-13 Locy Type 3z
			"V" mail

WPG-70

 

N/A		N/A	1944-11-01 Locy Type 2z
			Censored Officer's mail

WAGC-70

 

N/A		N/A	1944-11-15 Locy Type 2z
			Censored mail

WAGC-70

 

N/A		N/A	Late 1944 Newspaper Clipping CGC SPENCER sinks a U-Boat
			"Battle of the Atlantic"

WAGC-70

 

N/A		N/A	1945-02-07 Locy Type 2z
			Censored mail

WAGC-70

 

N/A		N/A	1946-01-14 Locy Type 2z
			Coastie mail

WAGC-70. Cacheted cover created by Artcraft for the FDR stamps in 1945.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-01-24 Locy Type 2z
			Coastie mail

WAGC-70.

 

N/A		N/A	1951-11-26 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel Brooklyn NY
			Ship's mail

WAGC-70.

 

N/A		N/A	1967-04-26 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel Staten Island NY
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36.

 

N/A		N/A	1970-08-11 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel New York NY
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36.

 

N/A		N/A	1972-06-15 USPS Machine Cancel New York NY
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36. Ocean Weather Patrol, one of the most demanding of the many diversified missions performed by the Coast Guard, began in early 1940 and continued for 37 years. Ocean Weather Patrol was a program in which Coast Guard cutters were assigned to a 10-mile square “Station” on the high seas, and while there, provided world-wide weather forecasting information, collected oceanographic date, and provided emergency navigation assistance and rescue aid for ships and aircraft in distress. "Ocean Station Charlie" was one of eight permanent Ocean Stations under the operational control of the Coast Guard’s North Atlantic Ocean Patrol (NORLANOPAT).

 

N/A		N/A	1973-04-09 USPS Machine Cancel Maryland
			Ship's mail w/ RCVD marking

WHEC-36.

 

N/A		N/A	1973-06-26 German Postmark
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36. "Drucksache" = printed matter

 

N/A		N/A	1974-01-15 USPS Slogan Machine Cancel New York NY
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36. SPENCER leaves New York, heading for Inactivation at United States Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, Maryland.

 

N/A		N/A	1974-01-19 USPS Machine Cancel Maryland
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36. SPENCER's Decommissioned date was January 23 1974.

 

N/A		N/A	1974-01-19 USPS Slogan Machine Cancel Maryland
			Ship's mail

WHEC-36. SPENCER's Decommissioned date was January 23 1974.

 

N/A			1974-01-23 Newspaper Clipping
			Article

WHEC-36. SPENCER's Decommissioned article and ribbons earned.

 

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