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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

 

N/A		N/A	1956-01-25 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Naval Base Br." Portsmouth NH
			Keel Laid

Cachet by George H. Goldey. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1957-08-27 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Naval Base Br." Portsmouth NH
			Launched

Cachet by George H. Goldey. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1957-08-27 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Naval Base Br." Portsmouth NH
			Launched

Cachet by George H. Goldey. From the Neal J. Mills collection.

 

N/A			1961-05-20 USPO Machine Cancel "Submarine Base Br." Honolulu, Hawaii
			Collectors request

Rubber stamp cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1966-06-09 USPO 1-bar Cancel Mare Island CA
			Collectors request

Ships cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1967-03-14 USPO Sloan Machine Cancel Vallejo CA
			Collectors request

Ships cachet.

 

N/A		N/A	1983-09-15 USPS CDS Portsmouth NH
			25th Birthday

Cachet by Robert D. Rawlins, sponsored by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS.

 

N/A			1987-11-19 USPS Type 9 "Submarine Base Br." Honolulu, Hawaii
			Deactivation

Cachet by Robert D. Rawlins, sponsored by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS.

 

N/A			1989-06-02 Locy Type LDC 2-1n
			Decommissioning

Cachet by Gary R. Rogak

 

N/A		N/A	1989-06-02 Locy Type LDC 2-1n
			Decommissioning

Cacheted

 

N/A		N/A	1989-06-02
			Decommissioning Letter

Note:

 

N/A		N/A	1994-10-18 USPS Type 9 "Naval Base Branch" Bremerton WA
			Scrapping program is started for the USS Swordfish SSN-579, USS Seadragon SSN-584, USS Sturgeon SSN-637, USS Francis Scott Key SSBN-657 and USS Benjamin Franklin SSBN-640 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton WA.

Cachet by Tom Armstrong

 

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