Category: Ship Covers and Histories (page 4)

Thanksgiving 2006 Cover of the Month By Don Tjossem (#L-10987) Thanksgiving Greetings from the USS PORPOISE! This very colorful Thanksgiving cachet was cancelled aboard PORPOISE (SS-172) on 24 November 1938 nearly 70 years ago! The artistry and graphics are very…

USS Long Island AVG-1 by Jon Burdett (#11619) with editorial comments added by Steve Shay (#L-10821)         December 2006 Cover of the Month   The USS LONG ISLAND was the second ship so named, and the first…

USS Moffett – USS-362 By Don Tjossem (#L-10987) January 2007 Cover of the Month HAPPY NEW YEAR! This MOFFETT (DD-362) cover was cancelled on 1 January 1937 with a type 3 cancel that indicates she was in Boston, Mass as…

USS Relief – AH 1 Mid-January 2007 Cover of the Month By John Young (#L-8219) Happy New Year, 1933 North Bay Stamp Club “New Years” cachet by Harry Ioor (USCS #877) who produced several different series of printed envelopes that…

USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8) By John Young (#L-8219) February 2007 Cover of the Month TWO TRIPS TO THE BAY OF WHALES USS MOUNT OLYMPUS & USCGC POLAR SEA Sixty years ago, collector Mrs. A. Mace, Marble, MN sent several #10…

USS Constitution By Steve Shay (#L-10821) March 2007 Cover of the Month In July 1931 the frigate USS Constitution, perhaps better known as Old Ironsides, began a journey that would take her on a tour of the eastern United States,…

USS Herbert DD-160 By Don Tjossem (USCS # L-10987)      April 2007 Cover of the Month This month’s Cover of the Month was cancelled aboard the USS HERBERT on April fool’s Day in 1935. (No fooling, that was over…

USS Arctic – AF-7 Don Tjossem, (USCS # L-10987) May 2007 Cover of the Month This cover honoring Mother’s Day was cancelled on 10 May 1936 aboard the third USS ARCTIC (AF-7) with a registered cancellation. This Scott 737, Mothers…

USS Texas (BB 35) – Flag Day, 1932 By John Young (USCS #8219) June 2007 Cover of the Month Future USCS President York Briddell sent two cents Wahington envelope to Battleship No. 35 for cancellation commemorating Flag Day. John C.…

Marine Detachment, Tientsin, China By Glenn Smith, #8073 July 2007 Cover of the Month This cover was mailed from Quartermaster Clerk L. F. Shoemaker, a Marine with the Marine Detachment, Tientsin, China (now known as Tianjin). The letter was posted…