MERCURY RECOVERY SHIP COVER & POSTMARK VARIETIES

Mercury-Atlas 4 - 13 September 1961 - A Simulator Astronaut

Recovery Force Ships

Ship

Type

Designation Covers

Atlantic (Task Force Alfa)

USS Decatur1

SRS/PRS (actual) - Destroyer

DD-936

Y

USS Plymouth Rock

PRS (designated) - Dock Landing Ship

LSD-29

N

USS Bigelow

SRS - Destroyer

DD-942

N

USS Borie

SRS - Destroyer

DD-704

N

USS Cony

SRS - Destroyer

DDE-508

N

USS Escape

SRS -Salvage & Rescue Ship

ARS-6

N

USS Glennon

SRS - Destroyer

DD-840

N

USS Wallace L. Lind

SRS - Destroyer

DD-703

N

USS Sarsfield

SRS - Destroyer

DDE-837

N

USS Zellars

SRS - Destroyer

DD-777

N

Tracking Ships

USAF Coastal Sentry

TS - Indian Ocean Tracking Ship

T AGM-15

N

USAF Rose Knot

TS - Atlantic Tracking Ship

T AGM-14

N


Cachets

Cachet

Description of Cachet

Colours Type 

USS Decatur1

Official ship's envelope with ship's seal & extra text

 Gold Rubber Stamp

USS Decatur1

Official ship's envelope with cachet produced by USS Decatur’s LT. J. A. Fel & extra text  Aqua Rubber Stamp

Notes:
1) From Steve Durst's unpublished book

 

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