Nalwife Naval Covers

11/08/2025

USS SPARTANBURG COUNTY LST-1192 Naval Cover 1974 SPRINGBOARD Cachet PUERTO RICO

The LST was launched in 1970 and was commissioned in 1971. In 1983 and 1985, the vessel was present in Lebanese waters. Spartanburg County maintained this pattern into 1980. [10] In 1983, while in port at Beirut, Lebanon, crew from Spartanburg County aided in extinguishing a fire aboard the Lebanese...

11/07/2025

USCGC SOUTHWIND WAGB-280 Naval Cover 1973 POLAR Cachet SIGNED

The boilerplate had been lost in the North Sea in early 1970, recovered by a Soviet fishing trawler in the Bay of Biscay, transferred to the Soviet Union, and passed to Southwind on 5 September 1970.

11/06/2025

Liberian Cargo Ship M/S HASTINGS Naval Cover 1977 PAQUEBOT Seattle, Wash

10/31/2025

A clutch-in idle speed of three knots helped conserve fuel on lengthy patrols, and an 18-knot maximum speed could get the cutter on scene quickly. [7] Already part of the design, crews stationed in Vietnam found the air-conditioned interior especially helpful.

10/28/2025

JAMAICA!

It was canceled 17 Nov 1941. It is franked with stamp "Arty". There were two opinions; firstly, that the Army run its own services as in the Peninsular War. The sergeants reported to the Duke of Wellington’s the Superintendent of Military Communications, Major Scovell and later Lieutenant Colonel ...

10/26/2025

MERMAID!

This is a Naval cover originating from the United States, featuring a 4 Cent stamp with a Mermaid cachet. The cover commemorates the Es**rt Destroyer USS EVANS DE-1023 in 1958 during the Cold War era. It is associated with a naval event, specifically related to the Navy branch and sailors. The cance...

10/24/2025

WYOMING!

Wyoming was laid down at the William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia in February 1910, was launched in May 1911, and was completed in September 1912. During the war, she was primarily tasked with patrolling in the North Sea and escorting convoys to Norway.

10/22/2025

PT-109!

The 80 ft (24 m) Elco MTBs were the largest PT boats operated by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Despite having a chronically bad back and a history of other illnesses including abdominal pain and scarlet fever as an infant, John F. Kennedy used his father Joseph P. Kennedy's influence to get int...

10/21/2025

Practically her whole bottom had to be removed in drydock at Balboa. In the fall of 1931 she went to her grave on the south end of Margarita Island off lower California. Venezuela struck a mine on the way out from Holland and was repaired in England.

10/20/2025

British censor sticker on a letter sent in late 1939 from The Netherlands to Palestine (then under British mandate). 1968 censored letter from an Israelisoldier. It was sent 23 Nov 1945. It was franked with stamp "Win the War".

10/18/2025

USS Frigate Bird (AMS/MSC-191) was a Bluebird-class minesweeper acquired by the US Navy for clearing coastal minefields. Among her activities were amphibious exercises on the beaches near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, surveying ocean currents, testing a new type of can buoy, and taking part in fleet...

10/17/2025

In January 1931, she joined the fleet in the Caribbean for Fleet Problem XII and, the following year, also participated in Fleet Problem XIII off Hawaii. Due to the increased tension in the Far East resulting from Japanese military action in Manchuria and at Shanghai, China, she remained in the Paci...