USS Cuttlefish Post Card Canceled with Dec 25 1937 Fancy Cancel / Peace On Earth / Good Will Toward Men with Graphic Mistletoe in between text. Probably never used again after that date. An extremely rare Christmas Fancy cancel. This Card also carrier the Submarine's Apostille Seal. An official seal used on official documents for the ship.
USS Cuttlefish (SC-5/SS-171), a Cachalot-class submarine and one of the "V-boats," was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the cuttlefish. Her keel was laid down by Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 21 November 1933 sponsored by Mrs. B. S. Bullard, and commissioned on 8 June 1934, Lieutenant Commander Charles W. "Gin" Styer in command. Cuttlefish was the first submarine built entirely at Electric Boat's facility in Groton, Connecticut; construction of previous Electric Boat designs had been subcontracted to other shipyards, notably Fore River Shipbuilding of Quincy, Massachusetts. Four Peruvian R-class submarines had previously been finished in Groton, using material from cancelled S-boats salvaged from Fore River.
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