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Posted 04/14/2022   12:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Linus to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Scanned below is a postcard from my WW postal history collection sent onboard the German ocean liner SS Amerika with a nice German Seepost cancel.

110 years ago today, according to Wikipedia, on April 14, 1912, an officer on the Amerika sent a telegram message to the Hydrographic Office in Washington, D.C. USA reporting that the ship "passed two large icebergs in 41 27 N 50 .8 W on the 14th of April" signed "Knutp, 10:51 pm". This message was relayed by the wireless operator on another newer ship, to the relay station at Cape Race, Newfoundland, because the transmitter of Amerika was not powerful enough to reach Cape Race directly.

Tragically, that newer ship, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg and sank less than 3 hours later. The telegram that SS Amerika sent is also shown below, picture snipped from Wikipedia.

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Posted 04/14/2022   02:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Linus,
I have had this stamp "Unidentified" since 2004
(Not my stamp)
Would this have been from that ship do you think?
or from a town in Saxony?

Cheers
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Posted 04/14/2022   3:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Linus to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry Rod, I do not know the answers to your questions about that stamp. Does anybody else know, and can help out Rod?
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Cheers Linus, no need to sweat it.
My query arose when I also had a part strike "?ERIKA" on a stamp
However dashed if I can find it in my database any more.

After finding a boxed ANTIGUA as a Scot Postmark,
I'll be no longer surprised at any of the weird prints on stamps.
My best bet is the ship mark.
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