USS Columbia C-12 United States Navy un-armored cruiser first day cover with a postmark from Keystone, SD on June 14, 2024. A photo of cruiser is printed on cachet #3010 by Alvin Eckert, USCS #9964.

USS Columbia: this 413 foot cruiser was built in Philadelphia and commissioned April 23, 1894.  She joined the US Atlantic Fleet that year and five years later joined the fleet that destroyed the Spanish Fleet in the Caribbean. This proud cruiser later served on the Atlantic Coast during WW I and decommissioned on Aug 21,1919. (see the web pages for details of her design, construction, battles and post-war service history)

Cover prepared on an un-gummed archive-quality envelope and franked with 32 cent USS Maine stamp # 3192, and varoius 73 cent flag coil stamps #5875-78 (FDOI).

Seller has over 16 different Spanish-American War ship covers (USS Brooklyn, Newport, Indiana, Maine, Olympia, Montgomery, Relief, Solace, Texas & Oregon), plus a cover for Admiral George Dewey, and over 30 other USN battleship covers. 

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