philatelia
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria
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Post by philatelia on Jun 29, 2020 12:46:32 GMT
LOVE these posts! MORE, please! What is it about ships and ship covers that is so darn enticing? I find myself wanting to google all of these ships to learn their history. Even as a kid I loved the CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower books and as an adult I couldn’t put down Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien.
I think I’m going to concentrate on Bermuda ship covers - especially the packet boat (paquebot) traffic between Bermuda and New York. It would be a fun challenge to try to find cover examples from all of the ships that worked that route. I keep seeing censored covers from WWII routed through the islands, too. That deserves some research. In any case, I’m hooked!
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jun 29, 2020 14:53:18 GMT
I think the Captain needs some shore leave 
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Post by stamphinger on Jun 29, 2020 15:21:36 GMT
Me too! I've read every volume of both series. Have you read Dewy Lambdin's The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures? Twenty-three volumes at last count.
Don
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stanley64
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What I collect: Canada, USA, Netherlands, Portugal & Colonies, Antarctic Territories and anything that catches my eye...
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Post by stanley64 on Jun 30, 2020 8:35:33 GMT
I think I’m going to concentrate on Bermuda ship covers - especially the packet boat (paquebot) traffic between Bermuda and New York. It would be a fun challenge to try to find cover examples from all of the ships that worked that route. I keep seeing censored covers from WWII routed through the islands, too. That deserves some research. In any case, I’m hooked!
As a slight digression, but in keeping with the eye-candy theme, you may want to include this auction catalogue or at a minimum, have a glance as you do your research and build up the knowledge/library
I will be curious to see what and where this takes you; in the meantime, thanks for the distraction philatelia...
Happy collecting!
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Post by stamphinger on Jul 2, 2020 22:21:34 GMT
Canceled aboard USS Ellis, DD-154, at Tacoma, Washington, a destroyer dating back to 1919. Served in the Atlantic during WW II on anti-submarine patrol and as escort for convoys. Decommissioned and struck from the Navy rolls in 1945, sold and scrapped in 1947. The cartoon cachet by cachet artist John Coulthard.
Don Stamphinger USS Ellis from internet photo
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jul 2, 2020 22:43:43 GMT
stamphinger - I appreciate your (and other posters) adding text to the post, much more interesting than simply posting a pic
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oldpapercollect
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 10, 2020 11:31:25 GMT
From Eretz Yisrael, 2 early ship cancels.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jul 10, 2020 18:26:05 GMT
New in today's mail, USNS MIRFAK, my first of this ship with the Deep Freeze cachet.
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oldpapercollect
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 11, 2020 3:14:22 GMT
Spent this afternoon going through some old postcards I haven't touched in years and found these shown here plus couple dated cancellations. Watch for 'em.
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jul 13, 2020 10:05:27 GMT
Estonian ships postmarks:
M/S mare Balticum, June 1995
M/S Regina Baltica
September 1998
November 1999
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oldpapercollect
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 14, 2020 12:23:09 GMT
On the 25th Anniversary of Eretz Yisrael, this happened.  |
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Jul 28, 2020 22:21:47 GMT
USCGC POLAR STAR
1989, addressed to Capetown, South Africa, delivery was not successful and the cover returned to sender. The franking using the two Antarctic Explorer stamps is an attractive feature.
Wile it is not a Deep Freeze cover, I couldn't resist the postal history aspects.
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Post by daniel on Jul 29, 2020 0:50:09 GMT
A cover and a postcard posted on board HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalagar and still in commission with the Royal Navy (and now the Flagship of the First Sea Lord, head of the Royal Navy as well as being a museum). Since she is still in commission she has a commanding officer and the covers are signed by the then existing COs Lieutenant Commander H A Twiddy DSC and Lieutenant Commander C W Whittington. HMS Victory was involved in the Siege of Gibraltar in 1782.  Scan_20200729 by Daniel, on Flickr |
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oldpapercollect
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 29, 2020 20:34:12 GMT
Probably created for Philatelic purposes but this cover has its own story to tell. Franked with SC.1715 13 cents orange tip butterfly stamp and cancelled in FT. Lauderdale this cover shows auxiliary markings on the front and back as shown.
  back of cover.
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Post by daniel on Jul 29, 2020 23:32:00 GMT
Now, here is something of a Naval oddity. Originally, HMS Excellent was a wooden ship which became a gunnery school in 1830. Two further replacements were renamed HMS Excellent including HMS Charlotte in 1859. By 1891 the school moved to a largely reclaimed island called Whale Island near Portsmouth. Since the Royal Navy is not permitted to 'rule over land' the island became the stone frigate HMS Excellent, continuing the tradition, and replaced the wooden ship. This cover marks the 150th anniversary of the Gunnery School. It is signed by the former First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Pollock GCB MVO DSC. It is postmarked with a British Forces Postal Service cancel for Whale Island/HMS Excellent. The story doesn't end there. Subsequent to this cover, the school closed in 1985 and HMS Excellent was decommissioned only to be recommissioned in 1994!  Scan_20200729 (3) by Daniel, on Flickr |
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oldpapercollect
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Jul 30, 2020 16:26:39 GMT
Arco Heritage Steam Tanker owned by Atlantic Richfield Co. entire with ship hand stamp. Mailed at sea.
 
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oldpapercollect
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What I collect: UPU, UNITED NATIONS, SCOUTS ON STAMPS, CHICKENS ON STAMPS, ESPERANTO & CINDERELLA STAMPS and ISRAEL POST OFFICE OPENINGS SINCE 1948
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Post by oldpapercollect on Aug 2, 2020 2:02:43 GMT
U.S.S ROE shown franked with 3 1/2 cent SC. 803's. Auxiliary markings of Registered and Parcel Post. 
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 16, 2020 22:31:17 GMT
According to Wikipedia, USS Long Island, CVE-1 had a long and interesting life as a U.S. Navy ship and civilian vessel. It began as a civilian cargo vessel, but was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1941 and converted to a small aircraft carrier. It was the Navy's first escort carrier or "baby flattop," so called because of it small size (it was only 492 feet long) and utilitarian design. It's purpose was to provide air surveillance and protection for convoys, transport airplanes, and train Navy pilots for aircraft carrier operations. It could carry 30 aircraft.
USS Long Island entered service in 1941, served in the Atlantic and the Pacific theaters throughout WW II, stricken from the Navy rolls in April 1946, was sold to various civilian shipping companies and operated as a sea going vessel until 1971 when Rotterdam University bought the ship for use as a student and immigrant hostel. She was finally scrapped in Belgium in 1977. Perhaps, the most noteworthy service USS Long Island rendered during WW II was the transport of two U.S Marine squadrons and accompanying airplanes to Guadalcanal in 1942 to form the near legendary Cactus Air Force.
I bought the cover for the image of Chance-Vought F4U Corsair in flight for my Aircraft on Covers collection. The inscription in the cancel's killer bars reads First Day/Cancellation, not of the stamp, but for the ship commissioning.
Don StampHinger USS Long Island transporting aircraft during WW II, photo from the internet
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Post by daniel on Aug 19, 2020 19:28:41 GMT
The Merchant Vessel (MV) Lady of Mann was a car ferry built in 1976 for traffic between Liverpool in England and Douglas on the Isle of Man. It was owned by the Isle on Man Steam Packet Company up until 2005 and was finally scrapped in 2011. The Isle of Man (or Mann) is a self-governing British Crown dependency. The cover has a Douglas, Isle of Man postmark for 30th July 1976, a PAQUEBOT mark, a Ship Letter I. Man mark, a Carried on Maiden Voyage mark and a Posted on Board hand stamp.  Scan_20200819 by Daniel, on Flickr |
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Post by daniel on Aug 19, 2020 19:40:29 GMT
This postcard was carried the maiden voyage, Southampton to New York, of the Queen Mary 2 on 16th April 2004. It bears a Queen Mary 2 postage stamp with a nice pictorial cancel and an additional 'Carried on Board QM2' hand stamp.  Scan_20200819 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr |
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Post by thegubman on Dec 30, 2020 11:03:27 GMT
A group of GB KEVIII 1d & 1 1/2d definitives with paquebot postmarks from around the world (UK, USA, Sri Lanka, India, France, Aden). Graham |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2022 9:38:29 GMT
The world got just that little bit smaller when on the 27th of May 1936 the RMS QUEEN MARY set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary Here's the commemorative cover relating to that event, she was in service for 31 years until 1967. >  If only you could turn back the clock ! |
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on May 5, 2022 12:59:19 GMT
Only indirectly is this a " ship " cover but it does have a ship illustration cachet . Some 275 years ago, a lad called John was born, son of a gardener Mr Paul at KIRKBEAN in the south of Scotland He went off to sea, was given command of a variety of merchant vessels, then became a notorious SCOTTISH PIRATE (adding the name Jones to his John Paul) captain of various US Warships including one called the "BONHOMME RICHARD" After that " little American Independence affair" was settled, he became Admiral in Catherine the Great's Russian Navy, and died in Paris age 47 of kidney failure  in 1905 some American found his lead coffin in a neglected cemetery in Paris, and had him carted him off to be reinterred in America, some where called Annapolis I believe!  |
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Post by vikingeck on May 6, 2022 17:14:57 GMT
This 1847 Ship letter arrived today from an ebay seller It is an invoice for $6467 for shipping 60 hogsheads of tobacco from New York bound for a merchant in Gothenburg Sweden . It is a copy invoice as Fred Huth were Shipping agents handling the transaction. This letter was carried on the Brig " CAMBRIDGE" Via Liverpool > There are no American Postal charges as it was taken personally by the Captain who passed for forwarding to London once he had docked in Liverpool The Post office Marked it LIVERPOOL SHIP LETTER and 8d was charged to Huth in London ( 6d was The ship letter rate to the captain +2d for unpaid letter I believe)   |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jan 14, 2023 21:33:02 GMT
I found these at the local stamp club monthly auction.A nice selection of French paquebot cancellations from the early 1900,s. These auctions usually are full of stamps and covers from Ecuador but now and then,there are items from other countries.I am always the only bidder on such items.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jan 14, 2023 21:47:03 GMT
A postcard sent from Djibouti to France with a Marseille -Yokohama paquebot cancellation. Included with the previous items.  |
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hdm1950
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What I collect: I collect world wide up to 1965 with several specialty albums added due to volume of material I have acquired. At this point I am focused on Canada and British America. I am always on the lookout for stamps and covers with postmarks from communities in Queens County, Nova Scotia. I do list various goods including stamps occasionally on eBay as hdm50
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Post by hdm1950 on Jan 15, 2023 0:19:06 GMT
I was looking at my small collection of Niger Coast Protectorate stamps this evening and this partial cancel caught my attention. It appears to include Liverpool which makes me think that this may be a mail ship cancellation. It is dated January 9, 1900 which is in the same month that these stamps ceased to be used.  |
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Jan 15, 2023 0:32:48 GMT
hdm1950Yes,this is a ship cancellation.I can just see paquebot marking at the top of the stamp. Nice stamp,too
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 5, 2023 17:32:07 GMT
This cover was an impulse buy. An attractive rendering of the ship. A first trip cover, operated by the Cunard Line, the Queen Mary sailed between Southampton, England and New York City. It remained in service until 1967, when it was sold and permanently moored at Long Beach, California, where it is operated as a museum and hotel.
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