Author: John Germann (page 21)

USS Schenck DD-159 By Steve Shay (#L-10821) March 2006 Cover of the Month This month’s cover is a wonderful hand drawn cover celebrating the March 17 holiday. The cachet was drawn by Ted Rauterberg, USCS #1439. Ted was a “shut-in”…

USS SQUALUS SS-192 By Glenn Smith (#8073) Perhaps the most famous U.S. Navy submarine peacetime disaster, mainly for the massive successful rescue effort after she sank off the Isle of Shoals on May 23rd, 1939. Commissioned in March 1939, SQUALUS…

USS Relief AH-1 By Steve Shay (#L-10,821) This hand painted cover by an unknown artist marks St. Valentine’s Day 1935 aboard the hospital ship USS Relief. The Relief was the first ship designed as a hospital ship for the US…

USS Sirius (AK-15) By Steve Shay (#L-10,821) USS Sirius was a cargo ship built in 1918 and acquired by the War Shipping Board in 1922 and assigned to the Naval Transportation Board. She operated along the East Coast and Caribbean…

USS West Virginia By Glenn Smith, (USCS #8,073) Official business cover from VADM David Foote Sellers, Commander Battleships, Battle Force, flying his flag in USS WEST VIRGINIA BB-48 to CAPT A. C. (Andrew) Pickens at the Naval War College, Newport,…

USS West Virginia (BB-48) By Steve Shay (#L-10,821) This small cover was sent to a shop we would all like to have visited. Who wouldn’t want to visit a shop selling antiques, curious, uniforms, steamship and yacht equipment, coins, naval…

Vincennes (CA-44) John Young, (#L-8219) Interesting hand-drawn ink & pen cachet (colored pencil) done by sailor aboard USS VINCENNES (Leonard) for crew-member, H. Avery Pratt for a relative in Essex, CT. Cachet depicts “King Neptune & mermaid” waiting for ship…

USS VESTAL (AR 4) John Young (L-8219) A combination of colored pencil, ink, newspaper cartoon (Popeye) & part of a photograph documents the retirement of Michael Owens from U.S. Navy, posted aboard USS VESTAL on July 7, 1939. Mike enlisted…

USS Turkey (AM-13) By Steve Shay (#L-10,821) The minesweeper USS TURKEY was assigned to the Pacific Fleet based in San Pedro, California in September 1939. TURKEY was commissioned December 13, 1918, a little too late to see service during World…

USS Swordfish (SSN-579) By Steve Shay (#L-10,821) The USS Swordfish was the second of the Skate class of nuclear attack submarines, the first class of the attack submarines to be built for the Navy that was not considered as a…