September 2016 FULL STEAM Issue 9 SPA09

February 2017 AHEAD Issue 1 MM01

SHP049P £300 1969 set of four Queen Elizabeth 2 maiden voyage covers, each signed by Commodore Warwick. £50 per month for 6 months

SHP505 £120 1969 QE2 British Ships pair of official Cunard FDCs, one with 5d and two 1/-and the other with three 9d, both with Southampton FDI and signed by Commodore Warwick. £30 per month for 4 months

SHP003H £60 1936 American Express blue illustration cover with London postmark and pink ‘via RMS Queen Mary Maiden Voyage’ cachet

SHP003ZG £125 Set of three covers making up the full 1935 Jubilee set, two with New York Paquebot CDS and the other a Paquebot slogan. £25 per month for 5 months

SHP011S1 £75 1968 Queen Elizabeth Final Transatlantic Voyage cover with Southampton Paquebot postmark, signed Commodore Marr.

SHP028U £75 1968 Queen Elizabeth postcard with New York postmark and posted at sea cachet, signed by Commodore Shaw, Captain Treasure Jones, plus 5 others who are possibly crew members or other captains, good item for a research project.

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 1 20TH CENTURY MAIDEN VOYAGES SS Normandie The SS Normandie was built in Saint-Nazaire for the French Line Compagnie Gènèrale Transatlantique. When she entered service she was the largest and fastest passenger ship and is still today the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built. She operated out of her home port of Le Harve and made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings to New York, and held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing on several occasions. During World War II, she was renamed USS Lafayette but in 1942 whilst being converted to a troopship she caught fire and capsized onto her side on the Hudson River. She was salvaged but later scrapped in 1946. SHP001 £50 1935 SS Normandie maiden voyage cover with blue illustration on the left side and French Line label on the reverse, New York postmark SHP001A £60 1935 SS Normandie maiden voyage with blue illustration, paquebot postmark

RMS Mauretania NS Savannah The RMS Mauretania was completed in May 1939 and was the The NS Savannah was the first ever nuclear powered first ship built for the Cunard White Star Company following the merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost of merger in 1934 of Cunard and White Star Line. She had a tonnage $47 million, with the nuclear reactor and fuel core costing of 35,739 gross, an overall length of 772 feet, and with a maximum $30 million alone. It was funded by the US government to speed of 26 knots. However with the outbreak of war her showcase the potential uses of nuclear energy under the commercial service did not last long and she was requisitioned by American ‘Atoms for Peace’ program. It launched in July the Government and sent to America in December 1939 where 1959 and was in active service between 1962 and 1972 she was converted into a troopship. After the war and a major SHP0051A £25 refurbishment, Mauretania returned to serving as a transatlantic ocean liner and cruises to the Caribbean and Mediterranean. 1959 Launching of the NS However by the early 1960s she faced stiff competition from Savannah modern liners, and her final voyage in 1965 to the shipbreaking yard in Fife, Scotland was captained by John Treasure Jones.

SHP002 £75 SHP0051B £25 1939 RMS 1964 NS Savannah First Mauretania Transatlantic Voyage maiden voyage with red cachet SHP0051D £25 NS Savannah, our choice of postmark from ports and illustration of across the world the ship SHP0051E £15 NS Savannah postcard with very interesting German postmark from its port of call USS Enterprise The USS Enterprise was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and at 1,122 feet remains the longest naval vessel ever built. She housed a crew of over 4,600 and remained in service from 1962 to 2012, longer than any other US aircraft carrier. The Enterprise was deployed across the globe during its service including as part of the US blockade during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the more recent Iraq War. SHP052 £50 1960 USS Enterprise Christening, worlds first nuclear carrier SHP052A £25 1965 USS Enterprise 1931 Wilkins-Ellsworth Arctic Submarine Expedition Sir George Wilkins and Lincoln Ellsworth were Australian and American polar explorers respectively who led an Arctic expedition via submarine for scientific and oceanographic research. The submarine was christened The Nautilus and an 18 man crew chosen. They departed from New York but many problems befell the expedition and were later forced to scuttle the submarine off the Norwegian coast due to unrepairable damage. Whilst, they did not reach the pole they came close enough to test core ice samples, the salinity of water, the polar effect on gravity, and proved that submarines were capable of operating in such cold temperatures. SHP057 £60 1931 New York - North Pole, Wilkins-Ellsworth Arctic Submarine Expedition

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 2 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] MM01 20TH CENTURY MAIDEN VOYAGES SS New Amsterdam The SS New Amsterdam was a Dutch ocean liner built in Rotterdam for the Holland America Line, and recognised as Holland America’s finest ship. She was in service from 1938 -1973 and at 36,982 tonnes was the largest liner constructed in the Netherlands. Her advance design which incorporated modern fire resistance and air conditioning features saw her dubbed the ‘Ship of Tomorrow’. During the war she was requisitioned by the British after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and served as an allied troop transport. SHP005 £40 1938 SS New Amsterdam, Maiden Voyage cover between Rotterdam and New York.

1939 SS America The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. Famously two members of her crew, Franz Joseph Stigler and Erwin Wilheim Siegler, were later discovered to have been Nazi spies and part of the infamous Duquesne Spy Ring. While serving on the SS America they gathered information on ship movements and military defences around the Panama Canal. During the war she was later requisitioned as a troop transport and renamed USS West Point. SHP005S2 £30 1940 SS America First Voyage, New York - Puerto Rico - New York.

SS Manhattan SS Manhattan was a 24,189-ton luxury liner built for United States Lines and was the largest liner ever built in America. She carried over 1,100 passengers on the New York - Hamburg route, which included in 1936 carrying the US Olympic team to the Berlin Games. In 1941, the Manhattan was requisitioned to the US Navy as the troopship USS Wakefield, she was heavily damaged by a fire during the war and never returned to commercial service. SHP005Q £35 1932 SS Manhattan, Maiden Voyage, New York - Queenstown - Plymouth - Harve - Hamburg.

SHP005J £40 SS Panama and SS Cristobel 1939 SS Panama, For the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Panama maiden voyage, Canal, Panama Line commissioned three sister ships to run Panama - New York weekly services between New York and the Canal; the SS Panama, SS Ancon, and SS Cristobal. They were designed with state of art innovations and marketed as luxurious ships with just over 200 first-class passengers on board.

SHP005F £40 1939 SS Cristobel, maiden voyage cover.

MORE MAIDEN VOYAGES AVAILABLE SHP005A 1938 SS Oslofjord, maiden voyage Bergen - New York...... £40 SHP005B1 1953 SS Extavia plain cover with paquebot mail posted on the high seas...... £20 SHP005BA 1940 SS Exemplar maiden voyage with Ceylon postmark...... £40 SHP005PA 1968 SS France maiden voyage FDC with illustration of the ship and paquebot postmark...... £25 SHP005R 1952 SS United States maiden voyage, New York - Harve - Southampton...... £25 SHP005W 1946 SS African Star, maiden voyage Durban - USA...... £25 SHP005XC 1940 SS Deltargentino maiden voyage, our choice...... £30 SHP005XE 1937 SS Kungsholm Coronation Cruise, our choice...... £30 SHP006C 1940 SS Exhibitor Maiden Voyage with Colombo Ceylon postmark...... £40 SHP244 1937 USS Porter Coronation Day cover with USS Porter postmark...... £30 SHP277 1956 USS Mariposa launch with San Francisco postmark...... £25 SHP162 1941 SS Exceller maiden voyage with Ceylon - New York...... £40 SHP163 1939 SS Ancon maiden voyage with ‘posted on the high seas the Panama Line’ cachet...... £40 www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 RMS QUEEN MARY RMS Queen Mary was an ocean liner built for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. She was in service from 1936 to 1967 and primarily operated on the trans-Atlantic route, serving as Cunard’s flagship from 1936 until 1946. RMS Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on May 27th 1936 and had achieved the Blue Riband by August; holding it for the majority of the next 15 years. During World War II she was converted into a troopship carrying soldiers from both America, Australia and New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Following a major refurbishment she returned to passenger services after the war but with the advent of the jet engine and her increasing age she was retired in 1967. RMS Queen Mary departed Southampton on her final voyage on October 31st 1967 to the port of Long Beach, California, where she remains moored to this day. 1936 Maiden Voyage SHP003 £50 Sanders cover, Southampton postmark. Buy the pair for £85

SHP003A £50 Sanders cover, New York postmark.

SHP003E £50 Fyfe and Grey cover with Southampton postmark.

SHP003F £50 Buy the pair for £85 Fyfe and Grey cover with New York postmark.

SHP003D £50 American Express cover, London postmark.

Buy the pair for £85

SHP003H2 £50 American Express blue illustration, with Philadelphia postmark.

SHP003I £50 SHP003B £50 American Express cover, Brighton Marshall and Hove postmark. Hancock cover. Buy the pair for £85

SHP003K Small blue illustration in bottom left...... £75 SHP003L Stamp Collecting Ltd postcard...... £95 SHP003T Plain cover, carried with New York postmark...... £40 SHP003TA Illustration of Queen Mary Ship, Eric Britten, and Her Royal Majesty Queen Mary. New York postmark...... £70 SHP003U Westminster Stamp Co, Southampton postmark...... £75 SHP003W Side view illustration in black of the ship on the bottom left of the cover, New York postmark...... £75 SHP003Y Illustrated Greeting plus booklet, unusual...... £60 SHP003ZC First trip from England - America - England, with USA postmark and stamp...... £40 SHP003ZD Blue and white rectangle image in the top left corner, London postmark...... £60 SHP003ZF Hand coloured cover, London...... £75 SHP003ZH Black illustration of the liner in front of the Empire State Building, Southampton postmark...... £50 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 4 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] MM01 1967 Final Voyages

SHP011 £17.50 Last Transatlantic Voyage, Southampton special paquebot postmark. SHP011A £60 Last Transatlantic Voyage SHP010 £25 cover, Southampton Paquebot Last Transatlantic Voyage, New York Paquebot postmark, doubled with the postmark. 2004 Ships issue featuring the Queen Mary II. SHP010S £75 Last Transatlantic Voyage, New York Paquebot SHP012 £15 postmark, signed by the Captain Treasure Jones. Last Arrival at Southampton, Southampton Paquebot postmark SHP012S £75 Last Arrival at Southampton, Southampton Paquebot postmark, signed by Captain John Treasure Jones.

SHP014 £17.50 Last Call at Las Palmas, Paquebot SHP013 £20 Last Call at Gibraltar, Gibraltar postmark. Paquebot postmark SHP014S £75 SHP013S £75 Last Call at Gibraltar, Gibraltar Last Call, Las Palmas slogan Paquebot, signed by Captain Treasure Jones postmark, signed by Captain Treasure Jones.

SHP021 £20 Last Cruise, Lisbon Paquebot postmark.

SHP020S £50 Last Cruise, Southampton special slogan, signed by Captain Treasure Jones.

SHP020 £20 Last Cruise, Southampton special slogan postmark. SHP022 £25 Final Cruise, Las Palmas Paquebot postmark.

SHP023 £25 Last cruise, Long Beach paquebot postmark.

We run regular thematic emails with exclusive offers! Visit www.buckinghamcovers.com/family to ensure you’re not missing out www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH RMS Queen Elizabeth was a Cunard ocean liner built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Scotland. With the outbreak of war she entered service in 1940 as a troopship and it was not until October 1946 that she served in her intended role as an ocean liner operating between Southampton and New York. Named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, the then Queen Consort to King George VI, she was the largest passenger liner ever built, a title held for 56 years. She was replaced by Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1969 and ending up being sold to a Hong Kong businessman but she caught fire and capsized whilst undergoing refurbishments in Hong Kong harbour. 1936 Maiden Voyage SHP004 £50 Sanders cover with Southampton postmark.

SHP004C £75 Cunard White Star cover. 1968 Final Voyages SHP027 £20 New York Slogan Paquebot postmark. SHP027S2 £75 New York Slogan Paquebot postmark, signed by Captain John Treasure Jones.

SHP028 £20 Southampton Paquebot postmark. SHP028S £75 Southampton Paquebot, signed by Commodore Shaw.

SHP030 £20 Last Call at Southampton, Southampton paquebot postmark.

SHP0029 £20 Last Visit to Gibraltar, Paquebot postmark. SHP029S £75 Gibraltar last call, signed by Commodore Shaw.

We have a large selection SHP031 £20 Last visit to Las of Maritime items available Palmas, Paquebot please contact us for a full postmark. list on 01303 278137

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 6 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] MM01 QUEEN ELIZABETH II Queen Elizabeth 2 is an ocean liner built for Cunard which operated as a transatlantic liner and cruise ship from 1969 to 2008, serving as the lines flagship from 1969 until 2004. Built in Clydebank, Scotland she operated out of Southampton. During the Falklands War she carried 3,000 troops to the South Atlantic and was refitted with two helicopter pads, steel plating, and anti-magnetic coil to combat naval mines. Upon her retirement she was acquired with the purpose of converting her into a floating hotel in Dubai, where she remains to this day waiting to be refurbished. 1969 Maiden Voyages SHP040 Cunard Official Cover, pair of first day covers...... £25 SHP040A Cunard Official Cover, Southampton FDI...... £10 SHP040D Cunard Official Cover, carried on the final three voyages...... £20 SHP040E Cunard Official Cover, our choice of FDI...... £7.50

SHP042 £25 Las Palmas Paquebot postmark. SHP042A £25 Preview Cruise, Tenerife slogan down the side, stamp cancelled with London CDS.

SHP042S £75 Las Palmas Paquebot postmark, signed by Commodore Warwick. SHP042B £25 Preview Cruise cover Lisbon CDS postmark, plus Preview Cruise and High Seas Mail cachets.

SHP043 Southampton posted at Sea Paquebot...... £25 SHP043A Southampton posted at Sea paquebot postmark, plus Lisbon CDS 28th April....£27.50 SHP043S Southampton posted at Sea Paquebot, signed by Commodore Warwick....£75

SHP044 £25 Southampton Departure Paquebot postmark. SHP044A £15 Southampton City Council Cover. SHP044AS £25 Southampton City Council Cover, signed Edmund Hockridge.

SHP044P Southampton departure, signed Commodore Warwick...... £75 SHP044S Southampton Departure postmark, signed Commodore Warwick...... £75 SHP045 Le Harve Paquebot postmark...... £25 SHP045S Le Harve Paquebot, signed by Commodore Warwick...... £75 SHP045A £25 Le Harve Paquebot postmark and posted on board QE2 Souvenir Cover cachet. SHP046 Rush Stamps cover, Le Harve paquebot postmark...... £25 SHP046A Rush Stamps cover, Southampton paquebot postmark...... £25

SHP047 Cunard cover, New York Paquebot postmark...... £25 SHP047A Cunard cover, New York postmark...... £25 SHP047AS Cunard cover, New York postmark, signed by Commodore Warwick...... £75 SHP047B Colonnade Hotel cover, carried on the maiden Voyage...... £7.95 SHP048 Le Harve Paquebot postmark, return voyage...... £25 SHP047S Cunard cover Southampton postmark, SHP049 Southampton special Paquebot postmark, return voyage...... £25 signed Captain Warwick...... £85 www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 HOVERCRAFT

SHP091 £35 1968 Pair of Hovercraft covers, Ryde - Portsmouth, pilot signed. SHP050S £25 1969 Hoverlloyd cover, signed by the Craft Commander W Williams.

SHP214S £25 1967 Seaspeed Cowes - Portsmouth and Portsmouth - Cowes, pair of covers, signed by pilot. SHP214O £25 1968 Hovercraft Boulogne - Dover - Boulogne, pair of covers, signed by the Captain.

SHP214Y £15 11972 Sealink m.v. Hengist maiden crossing Folkestone - Boulogne and Boulogne - Folkestone pair. SHP252B £20 1972 Sealink re opening of mail boat service from Holyhead - Dun Laoghaire pair of covers with Holyhead paquebot and Dun Laoghaire paquebot postmarks. SHP050 1969 Anniversaries FDC, Hoverlloyd official cover marking the First Hovercraft flight from Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate to Calais.... £25 SHP092A 1969 Red Funnel Seaflight, Hydrofoil Service, Cowes - Southampton and Southampton - Cowes, pair, both signed by pilots.... £20 SHP093 1968 Hovercraft Dover - Boulogne, pilot signed pair...... £20 SHP096 1972 Maid of Orleans, Sealink, Jersey - Guernsey - Newhaven...... £15 SHP098 1973 MV Senlac, Sealink Inaugural Public Crossing, Newhaven - Dieppe, pair...... £15 SHP165 1972 First forces international hover mail with FPO CDS...... £15 SHP168 Collection of 5 different Hovercraft covers, our choice...... £25 SHP170 1981 Hovermail, Portsmouth - Isle of Wight...... £10 SHP214 1970 Sealink maiden crossing T.S.S. Holyhead Ferry 1, Dun Laoghaire- Heysham and Heysham - Dun Laoghaire pair...... £20 SHP214A 1973 Hovercraft Southport - Squires Gate...... £10 SHP214D Interservice Hovercraft Unit, our choice of cover and postmark...... £10 SHP214E 1971 Inauguration of HM2 Hovercraft service between Bournemouth and Yarmouth, pair of covers...... £20 SHP214HA 1975 Naval Hovercraft Trials, last flight, hovercraft No.XT492...... £10 SHP214K 1969 10th Anniversary of the World’s first hovercraft flight in Southampton water with special Southampton postmark, carried....£10 SHP214KS 1969 10th Anniversary of the World’s first hovercraft flight in Southampton water with special Southampton postmark, carried and signed by Commander Jardine...... £15 SHP214M 1976 RNHTU first flight...... £10 SHP214N 1970 Seaspeed Calais- Dover and Dover - Calais pair, both signed by the Captain...... £20 SHP214Q 1966 Seaspeed Cowes - Southampton first ‘flight’...... £10 SHP214W 1970 Le Havre - Deauville - Le Havre, pair, signed by the two drivers (of the two journeys)...... £25 SHP214X 1971 Hovercraft Jersey - Guernsey and Guernsey - Jersey pair, both signed by the Pilot Captain B. Goldsmith...... £20 SHP214XA 1971 Hovercraft Jersey - Dinard and Dinard - Jersey pair, both signed by the Pilot Captain B. Goldsmith...... £20 SHP214Z Collection of 10 carried hovercraft cards, 2 pilot signed, bulk form the 1970s but some 1960s and 1980s also...... £30 SHP252C 1973 SS Falaise Sealink from Jersey - Weymouth, inaugural car ferry...... £15 SHP252D 1975 Inaugural Voyage Car Ferry, Sealink SS Falaise, Weymouth to Jersey and return...... £20 SHP252H 1974 Sealink SS Maid of Kent, Inauguration of Car Ferry Service, pair of covers, Weymouth - Cherbourg and return...... £20

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF 8 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] MM01 1970 SS GREAT BRITAIN On the 23rd June 1970 The Great Ship arrived back in Bristol from the Falklands where she had been left since 1886 after being damaged in a gale off Cape Horn. Launched on the 19th July 1843 she created a sensation wherever in the world she visited. After 31 years’ service as a steamer her engines were taken out and she carried on as a sailing ship, ending up being used as storage for wool and coal in the Falklands. Since her arrival back in Bristol she has been completely renovated and has pride of place in the city where she was built. SHP060 £35 Official ‘Voyage 47’ the return of the SS Great Britain cover, carried from the Falklands to Bristol.

SHP061 £20 Illustration showing the map of its route.

SHP142 £35 Falklands FDC with return to the United Kingdom cachet.

MARRIOT R.N.N.C COLLECTIONS SERIES SHP202B £20 1990 Operation Pedestal, The loss of the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo with Portsmouth Philatelic Counter postmark and signed by Commander Bertie Tower. Marriot COL1683 £150 Maritime Lot of 10 R.N.N.C Group series 6 no 52 covers, bargain.

SHP202F £40 1990 50th Anniversary of Operation Dynamo with BFPO 2230 postmark and signed by Commander Dreyer, Richard Annand VC COL2203 £75 and one other. R.N.C.C. Collection of seven photographs signed by sailors - Sir Francis Group series 6 no 54 Chichester, Robin Knox Johnston, Naomi James (2), Clare Francis, C Sullivan and Chay Blyth. SHP202FA £20 1990 15th Anniversary of Operation Dynamo with Dover postmark and signed by Lt. Elstob, Owen Hughes, and Frank Gannon - all Dunkirk survivors, R.N.C.C. Group series 6 no 16 SHP202K £15 1990 Commemorate the Battle of the Bay of Biscay with Portsmouth philatelic counter postmark and signed by Vice Admiral Sir John Lea. R.N. Marriot R.N.C.C. Group series 6 no 49 SHP203 £20 1997 Operation Pedestal Convoy WS21S to Malta COL2076 £75 with special postmark and four signatures. Royal Naval Covers US Navy Station Norfolk, 8 ‘Welcome to Norfolk’ covers marking series 4 no 31 visits of foreign ships between 1957 - 1970. SHP203A £20 1997 To the memory of the men of HMS Splendid (P228) with special postmark and three signatures. Royal Naval Covers series 4 no 12 SHP203B £20 1995 15th Anniversary of HMS King George V at sea with the US Third Fleet with special Newcastle upon Tyne philatelic counter postmark and four signatures. Royal Naval Covers series 3 no 10 COL2103 £50 SHP202P £75 5 different signed Royal Navy Marriott covers, our Collection of 8 Navy choice, these usually retail at £20 each Ships covers, all signed.

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£5 LIST £10 LIST Buy any 2 for £9 Buy any 2 for £18 or any 3 for £12 or any 3 for £25 SHP206 1971 Plymouth Navy Days official cover with special SHP209 1972 Carried on the fastest round the world flight race BFPO 1189 postmark. Our choice of date on postmark from Mansfield to Sydney and back with Mansfield between 28th/29th/30th August...... £5 postmark and signed by a competitor. Our choice of SHP208 1971 National Rally of Boats, Northampton With special postmark date...... £10 Northampton postmark...... £5 SHP211 1971 To commemorate the launch of the first Type 42 SHP210 1971 Philatelic Cover with paquebot postage, our choice...£5 Destroyer HMS Sheffield with special Barow-in-Furness SHP212 1971 20 Maritime Regiment Cover with special BFPO 1140 postmark...... £5 postmark...... £10 SHP213 1971 North Western Federation of Philatelic Societies 1 SHP215 1986 Royal Wedding with Gibraltar postmark and Royal 1th Annual Convention with Manchester postmark and Navy cachet, signed by Commander Halpert of HMS paquebot posted...... £5 Apollo...... £10 SHP213A 1971 Germany and Colonies Philatelic Society with special SHP219 100th Anniversary of Clacton-on-Sea with postmark and Great Yarmouth postmark...... £5 paquebot posted...... £10 SHP217 1972 First operational use of the Gray’s mechanical SHP223 1969 QE2 High Seas mail posted on board maiden voyage, cancellation with paquebot postmark...... £5 Le Havre postmark, plain cover...... £10 SHP218 1972 RNLI Lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee SHP223A1969 Maiden voyage of the QE2 postmarked New York, named by the Queen at Henley-on-Thames with special Henley postmark...... £5 and posted on board...... £10 SHP220 1965 Nordenfieldske with Nordkapp postmark...... £5 SHP232 1970 The Tall Ships Race with special Plymouth postmark.. £10 SHP227 1969 Clyde River Steamer Club, 80th Anniversary of SHP239 1979 Sea Jet, Brighton - Dieppe Inaugural Flight with The Caledonian Steam Packet Company with special Brighton Marina postmark...... £10 Gurrock Renfrewshire postmark...... £5 SHP243 1986 Royal visit to the Channel Islands with Guernsey SHP229 1969 Chelmsford and District Philatelic Society Golden post office postmark and signed by Admiral Sir Richard Jubilee with special Chelmsford postmark...... £5 Fitch KCB Second Sea Lord...... £10 SHP230 1965 Portsmouth and District Philatelic Society 2nd SHP261 1971 60th Anniversary of the first naval flying training, Exhibition at Round Tower Point with special Portsmouth flown...... £10 Philatelic Society postmark...... £5 SHP236 1977 Navy Day Auckland Naval Base with Auckland SHP262 1972 Disbandment of 899 Squadron Fleet Air Arm.... £10 postmark and signed by Rear Admiral J F McKenzie SHP265 1969 Maiden Crossing m.v. Leinster Dublin - Liverpool, (Chief of Naval Staff)...... £5 Paquebot postmark...... £10 SHP238 1982 Maritime Heritage Year, Stamp Exhibition Exeter. SHP265A 1969 Maiden Crossing m.v. Leinster Liverpool - Dublin, Special Exeter postmark and stamp exhibition cachet. Paquebot postmark...... £10 Signed by a Midshipman...... £5 SHP268 2004 Ocean Liners FDC, our choice...... £10 SHP240 1973 125th Anniversary of Irish Mail with Holyhead SHP204C 1979 30th Anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Anglesey postmark...... £5 Treaty with BFPO 3079 postmark and signed by Admiral SHP242 1972 Disbandment of 1107 Marine Craft Unit, carried on two different flights, paquebot posted at sea...... £5 Sir Henry Leach...... £10 SHP247 1937 Union Castle Line (a British shipping line) with SHP204 1982 285th Anniversary of the Birth of Admiral Lord Southampton postmark, plain cover with Union Castle George Anson with BFPO 1768 postmark signed by Rear Logo on reverse...... £5 Admiral E. R. Anson ...... £10

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COMMODORE GEOFFREY MARR Marr joined Cunard in 1936 and aside from five years during WWII, spent the rest of his career SHP027S £75 with the company. He rose to the highest rank Commodore Marr signed of Commodore Captain of the entire Cunard 1968 Queen Elizabeth Final fleet and during his career served on the RMS Transatlantic Voyage cover with Mauritania, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, New York Paquebot postmark. and would later command the latter two. During the war he served in a steam drifter during the Dunkirk evacuation and was later transferred to the battleship HMS King George V and was SHP030S £75 onboard during its sinking of the Bismarck. He Commodore Marr signed also saw action in the Baltic, Mediterranean, and 1968 Queen Elizabeth Last Malaysian waters, and was in Singapore when Call at Southampton cover. the Japanese surrendered.

Treasure Jones joined Cunard in 1937 before seeing CAPTAIN JOHN TREASURE JONES military action during WWII patrolling the North Sea and Denmark Strait. He was on the AMC Laurentic SHP011S £75 when she was sunk in November 1940 and was Captain Treasure Jones signed 1967 Queen Mary, Last Transatlantic Voyage adrift for over six hours before being rescued. He cover with Southampton paquebot later served escorting the Atlantic conveys and in postmark. 1943 was promoted to Commander. In 1945 he was promoted again to Acting-Captain and sent to South East Asia Command under Admiral Mountbatten. Treasure Jones rejoined Cunard in 1947 and served on several ships including as commander of RMS SHP003O £50 Captain Treasure Jones signed 1987 20th Mauretania, Queen Elizabeth, and the Queen Anniversary of the QM final cruise with Mary. He retired in 1968, after a career of 47 years Southampton postmark. including an incredible 43 continuous years at sea.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM WARWICK Warwick joined the British Merchant Service in 1928 and Cunard in 1937. During World War II SHP026S £60 he was in the Royal Naval and served on coastal Commodore Warwick signed patrols, before being transferred to protecting 1967 Queen Elizabeth II the Atlantic convoys, and later supporting the Clydebank launch cover. invasion of Normandy. After the wars conclusion he rejoined Cunard and when the QE2 was commissioned in 1964, he had commanded every one of Cunard’s passenger ships. In 1966 he was named Master of the QE2, the first person SHP042S £75 to hold the title. Commodore Warwick signed 1969 QE2 Preview Cruise with Las Palmas Paquebot 01303 278137 postmark. EMAIL: [email protected]

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