Other Crash mail – for trade

 

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1892-01-31 German steamer SS Eider was on a trip from New York to Southampton when she stranded at the Isle of Wight. Cover from Boston, USA to Vienna, Austria.
1895-01-30 German steamer SS Elbe was on a trip from Bremen to Southampton and New York. When crossing the North Sea she collided with another ship and sank. Cover from Germany to Lincoln, USA.
1898-01-10 Service cover addressed to Stockholm, Sweden. The cover was used to forward a damaged letter. Size: 260 x 217 mm.
1900-04-05 A British steamer SS Mexican was on a route from Cape Town, South Africa to Southampton when she collided with another ship. Cover from Cape of Good Hope to Germany.
1916-02-14 Swedish Steamship Newton had a fire aboard while at Sunderland, England. Cover from London to Stockholm, Sweden.
1916-12-06 British cover from Gravesend 1 DE 16 to Swindon returned to sender with British resealing label on the back.
1917-03-13 British Steamship Norwegian was on route from New York to Liverpool when an explosion occured and the ship was beached off the Irish coast.
1917-04-?? Unknown ship disaster. Probably on the trip from U.S.A. to Europe. Note the manuscript note in French on the back “Accident en mer”. Arrived in Copenhagen 7th May 1917.
1925-03-?? Registered cover from Peking, China 10.3.1925 to Germany. Arrived in damaged condition.
1929-05-?? Unknown incident. Cover from Chicago 4.5.1929 to Norway where it arrived 21.5.1929. Forwarded in Norwegian service cover.
1926-03-?? Unknown incident. Cover from Porto Alegre 3 MAR 1926 to Düsseldorf, Germany. Resealing label for damaged mail.
1929-09-08 A Swedish SS Heimdall ran aground and sank on its way from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland. Cover from Germany to Finland.
1929-09-08 B Swedish SS Heimdall ran aground and sank on its way from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland. Cover from Denmark to Finland.
1929-09-08 C Swedish SS Heimdall ran aground and sank on its way from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland. Cover from Norway to Finland.
1929-09-08 D Swedish SS Heimdall ran aground and sank on its way from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland. Postcard from France to Finland.
1930-03-12 British SS Comorin was lying in the harbour at Colombo, Ceylon when a fire broke out. The fire was extinguished with sea war damagin most of the mail. Cover from Sydney to London
1933-12-12 Service cover addressed to Göteborg, Sweden. The cover was used to forward a damaged letter from Beograd.
1934-01-16 The train on the Basel-Berlin line caught fire a few km north of Hanau, Germany. Cover from Mainz to Berlin with label from Frankfurt/Main.
1936-11-21 Probably from an unknown railway accident on the line from Springfield, Massachusetts to Newport, Rhode Island.
1937-12-23 Service cover addressed to Göteborg, Sweden. The cover was used to forward a damaged letter from Luckenwalde.
1940-02-01 A Danish SS Vidar was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on its way from Newcastle to Esbjerg, Denmark. Cover from Stoke-on-Trent to Copenhagen forwarded in Danish service cover.
1940-02-01 B Danish SS Vidar was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on its way from Newcastle to Esbjerg, Denmark. Cover from Cardiff to Copenhagen.
1940-06-07 British SS Eros was on route from Montreal to Liverpool when she was torpedoed by th German submarine U-48. Cover from Canada to a Canadian soldier in England.
1942-??-?? Field Post Cover from Market Drayton, Shropshire to military address. British handstamp used in London.
1943-06-?? A Hoggarth & Gwynn mention mail from South America to U.K. Unidentified Vessel. Cover from Argentina to London, England.
1943-06-?? B Hoggarth & Gwynn mention mail from South America to U.K. Unidentified Vessel. Cover from Uruguay to Liverpool, England.
1944-07-?? Unknown incident. Postal stationery cover from Philippines to Appari, Cagayan in Philippines. The cover is watersoaked.
1945-05-25 British ship SS Scythia had a fire aboard when entering the River Mersey. Cover from Canada to England.
1945-06-?? Unknown incident. Damaged cover from U.S. Army Post Office in Germany to Faroe Islands via Great Britain.
1946-06-10 Balloon crash Schiedam, the Netherlands.
1946-10-?? Unknown incident. Mentioned by Hoggarth and Gwynn. First Day Cover from Jamaica to London.
1947-03-?? Italian service cover used to forward damaged mail to Cape Town, South Africa. The damaged item is not included. On the back is an Italian handstamp which refer to an incident in the harbour of Napoli, Italy.
1947-08-12 Part og damaged registered cover from Madrid, Spain 4.8.47 to Austria.
1950-09-12 When French SS Liberté arrived in New York on 12th September a part of the mail had been damaged by water due to a storm on the Atlantic crossing.
1951-03-28 Argentiniain SS Tucuman caught fire on its travel from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Genov, Italy. The fire was extinguished by flooding the hold. Cover from Argentina with an unknown Italian handstamp on the back.
1957-04-29 Unknown incident. According to handstamp on the abck the cover was salvaged from ship due to outbreak of fire onboard.  DACCA R.M.S   ?? Not mentioned in Martime Disaster Mail.
1958-05-27 Dutch balloon crash near Örebro, Sweden. Only 53 cards were flown.
1959-11-01 German Rocket testflight in which crashed during landing.
1961-02-?? Unknown incident. The handstamp refer to “explosion of water pipe in ship´s hold”. Registered cover from Russia to Israel.
1961-05-29 Special card from interrupted rocket mail flight in Germany.
1961-06-22 Danish cover damaged in the mechanical sorting plant. Explanatory note from the Danish Post.
1962-06-23 Special cover from crashed rocket mail flight in Austria (Mooserboden).
1962-12-20 Fire on a train on the railway line between Quantico and Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. Cover from Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina. Handstamp in red is an unusual colour.
1963-07-18 ? Cover was sent from Halle/Saale 17.7.1963 and addressed to Ullersdorf near Dresden. Involved in accident between Halle and Dresden. Unknown label used at RPO in Leipzig (interesting label). Not mentioned by Gwynn & Hoggarth. handbook.
1966-11-10 Fire on board Steam Ship Kypros  near Haifa harbour, Israel. Only few items from this incident are known. Much damaged postcard from Hungary to Israel.
1968-06-06 Cover from special ballon flight near Wien, Austria. Delayed due to strike in France.
1968-06-11 Cover from special ballon flight near Wien, Austria which crashed. All onboard died.
1970-05-04 First Day Cover damged by fire in the post office Jakobshavn.
1971-09-22 Railway accident on the line Spokane-Moscow Star Route. Not recorded in Railway Diasaster Mail.
1972-11-?? Parcelcard for a parcel sent from Godthåb, Greenland 25.10.1972 to Denmark. Due to bad weather the parcel was damaged on board the ship. Special label from the Greenland Post is attached.
1984-12-20 Cover from Berlin, Germany  damaged by fire in a mailbox. Returned in a plastic service cover and explanatory handstamp on the back.