January 2019

A double ring cancel used on the USS Cacapon. The USS Sennet, a submarine, had a cancel
that was unreadable so a straight line marking at the bottom of the cover with the FDR
stamp.
the area around Peter I Island. Mostly they laid off the icepack, and sent patrols to
photograph a largely unknown coast.
USS Pine Island: This tender was at the edge of the ice from December 25 to
March 3. It had several cancels. One is the standard Navy cancel with the ship’s
name. It also used one reading ‘US Navy 15763 Br.’ The standard cachet is used;
they also had a return-address rubber stamp.
USS Brownson: The destroyer reached the pack on December 17, and stayed
until March 3. It had a standard ship’s name cancel, as well as a single line cachet
with the ship name. And, of course, the usual Operation Highjump cachet.
USS Canisteo: As with USS Brownson this ship got to the ice December 17, and
lingered till March 3. Seen is a single ring ship name datestamp. On its return voyage
it celebrated the rounding of Cape Horn with a crude rubber stamp.
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