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