USS MELVILLE AD-2 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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

 

No Image			1918-03-25 Locy Type 9vz 1918-04-07 New York NY Reg'y. Div.
			Registered Mail

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			1918-09-16 Locy Type 1z
			Sailor's Mail

Censored, World War I. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1918-09-16 Locy Type 1z
			Sailor's Mail

Censored, World War I. Enclosed Letter from the 1918 cover. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1919-03-24 Locy Type 2
			Category

Postcard use
"COMMANDER'S HILL - NAVAL STATION - GUANTANAMO BAY"

 

No Image			1928-04-16 Locy Type 3 (A) "&SQUADRON / ELEVEN"
			Category

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No Image			1930-12-13 Locy Type P (9x with "Parcel Post" removed)
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			1934-01-01 Locy Type 8
			Category

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			1934-06-14 Locy Type 8 Locy Type 3 (B-TBB)
			Flag Day

Cachet Maker: R L Waeckerling.
Artist's first name is Harvey. Unable to make out his last name. Looks like Hoare or Neako?

			1934-06-14 Locy Type 8
			Flag Day 1934

"Teddy" Roosevelt Chapter No. 13, USCS Cachet

 

			1934-06-14 Locy Type 8
			Flag Day

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 13 Teddy Roosevelt.

No Image			1937-07-12 Locy Type 3 (B-TBB)
			Category

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			1940-10-08 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT)
			Category

Return to USS COLE DD-155

			1940-12-03 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "25 YEARS / OF SERVICE"
			Ship's Namesake

Weigand hand painted cachet

No Image			1941-01-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Hand painted cachet

			1941-02-28 Locy Type 7dr
			Official Business (Stricken) - Officer's Mail

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No Image			1941-05-28 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Manuscript ship's name on back of cover

			1941-08-14 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
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			1945-11-06 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

			1946-05-08 Locy Type 9efu Locy Type 9x
			First Anniversary V-E Day

Sadworth Cachet

			1946-05-13 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
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