Shipcards

Very cool cards. Have never seen any of those before.

This is one of my favorite ship cards. Canadian National Steamships had five similar ships named for wives of British Admirals: Lady Nelson, Lady Rodney, Lady Somers, Lady Drake, and Lady Hawkins. This view card was used for all five ships, simply changing the overprinted name of the ship.

I like that artist signed card of the "RMS Lady Hawkins". I noticed too that jarnick also mentioned the "RMS Lady Nelson". This ship, and others, also served as hospital ships during WW 2.

I have posted a postcard and a cover that was mailed from this ship and illustrate them here the way I mount them on my album pages.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu - - really a nice presentation, well done

Thank you Blaamand.

All my albums are a labour of love. I now have 3 large full binders of ship postcards and still have more to mount. I will probably end up with 5 volumes once I am done. These albums contain both postcards and covers, all ship related. There are even a couple of ship internal newspapers

Chimo

Bujutsu

SE MS Juno Exiting Gota Canal

Probably the best-known canal that I'd never heard of ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ta_Canal ... "Göta Canal is a sister canal of Caledonian Canal in Scotland, which was also constructed by Thomas Telford."

http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/R.../Gota-Canal/ ... "This early 19th century canal ... includes 66 locks, rivers and lakes."

http://www.gotakanal.se/en/ ... and the canal has its own website!

http://ww2.stromma.se/en/Gota-Canal...ips/MS-Juno/ ... and the boat has its own website!

http://www.eurorivercruises.com/fleet/juno.html ... and is well-known in the business

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/c...e-canal.html ... 2012 review

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/a...-Sweden.html ... 2013 review

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MS-JUNO-Lea...311028928986 ... ouch! a better postcard!

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

The ZSG MS Linth.

Zürichsee Schifffahrt & Gastro = Lake Zurich Shipping & (?)Dining

Blick gegen Kongresshaus = Looking Towards Kongresshaus, but good luck picking it out

https://www.zsg.ch/en/motor-boat-linth.html ... yup, same boat!

Q/ Any votes in favor of starting a "Shipcards ROTW" topic in the "Worldwide Postcards" forum?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Some ship postcards I got at the Owen Sound show yesterday.

Chimo

Bujutsu

The White Star Line's RMS Majestic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Majestic_(1914)

http://www.whitestarhistory.com/majestic2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjbVGUAAnT4 ... the video tour!

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

The second MS Ilmatar of the Finland Steamship Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finla...ship_Company ... the Finland Steamship Company

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/l...inland.shtml ... transferred in 1945 to USSR as war reparation, and renamed EMBA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Beach_Princess ... so they build another one in 1964, and look where it ended-up!

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Ilmatar.html ... the encyclopedia

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Yikes! I managed to omit the ship!

For those of y'all aspiring to The Bujutsu Standard http://goscf.com/t/22899&whichpage=3#382608 ...

... a ship track chart would nicely complement its matching ship card.

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/l...anchor.shtml ... while it was easy enough to find the SS Anchoria (twice!), I was not able to find a voyage that arrived in NYC during September of any year, and was not able to find Ms Gibson, either.

Q/ Should I erase all those penciled markings to 'restore' the card to 'mint' condition?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

If they had pocket track charts for passengers on the SS France in 1964, I never saw them and, frankly, my father was the sort of guy who would have pointed them out, and had us keep one up to date.

Which begs the question: how was it done?

Q/ Was there a daily announcement on the public address system?

Q/ Was there a daily announcement at breakfast each morning?

Q/ Was the information posted, in one/more places, so that passengers could update their charts at any time?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

A bump for the thread.
Huge City of Cleveland Steamer.
This one is postmarked in Cleveland Aug. 11 1908.

I'd like to add a card of one of the most famous ships in recent history -- the battleship Maine. Or at least her remains in Havana Harbor. I was quite startled to find this in a $1 box, considering picture postcards had not really been established in 1898 when the Maine exploded, setting off the Spanish-American War.



EDIT: And here's the back of the card. Diamond News Co. issued cards in Cuba from 1900 to 1906, marketing mostly to occupying U.S. military personnel.