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N/A		N/A	18--10-10 - PAID Cancel - Boston MA 18---10-22 - PAID Cancel - London England Stamp issued in 1875
			SS ALGERIA

  The ship "SS Pennland" was built with the name "SS Algeria" for the "Cunard Line" by the dockyard "J & G Thomson" in Glasgow and launched 12th July 1870. The maiden voyage began on 27th September 1870 and lead from Liverpool via Queenstown to New York.
   The "SS Algeria" is a steamship with three masts and a length of 110, 08 metres (361,2 feet). She had a breath of 12,35 metres (41,4 feet) and a mass of 3,428 tons. 200 passengers in the 1st class and 1,054 in the steerage could travel in this construction made of steel. The "SS Algeria" had a service speed of 13 knots (24 km/h, 15 mph).
   In the year 1882 the "Red Star Line" bought the "SS Algeria" and renamed her to "SS Pennland". The first voyage under the flag of the "Red Star Line" began 13th May 1882 from Antwerp in Belgium to New York. Until 15th December 1894 the "Pennland" took the route Antwerp-New York and after this for a short time the route Antwerp-Philadelphia.
   From 27th March 1892 till 23th September 1903 the "SS Pennland" was chartered by the "American Line" and used for the routes Philadelphia-Liverpool, Antwerp-New York, Antwerp-Philadelphia and Philadelphia-Antwerp.
   In 1903 the "SS Pennland", the former "SS Algeria", was scrapped in Italy.

N/A			1904-07-20 Various postmark being redirected
			Hamburg-Amerika Line - SS PATRICIA

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N/A			1908-02-03 Flag Cancel Haverhill MA
			Hamburg-Amerika Line - SS AMERIKA

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N/A			1913-07-09 Machine Cancel Liverpool England
			RMS TEUTONIC

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N/A			1914-07-09 Machine Cancel Niagara Falls NY
			Niagara Navigation Company - SS CAYUGA

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N/A			1926-07-09 Slogan Cancel London England
			White Star Line - RMS Homeric

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N/A			c 1930 Slogan Cancel Dublin Ireland
			White Star Line - RMS GEORGIC

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N/A			1926-03-23 USPO Machine Cancel Tampa FL
			Ford Fleet Ship - SS ONEIDA

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N/A		N/A	1929-03-28 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel Washington DC
			Cosulich Line - MS Vulcania

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N/A		N/A	1932-12-01 Canadian Mute Cancel Toronto Ontario
			Furness Line

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N/A		N/A	1932-12-01 Canadian Mute Cancel Toronto Ontario
			Furness Line

Timetable insert, side 1

N/A		N/A	1932-12-01 Canadian Mute Cancel Toronto Ontario
			Furness Line

Timetable insert, side 2

N/A		N/A	1933-01-30 USPO Machine Cancel Seattle WA SS Santa Paula
			First Voyage

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N/A			1937-06-14 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel Cleveland OH
			SS CITY OF BUFFALO

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N/A			1938-08-29 Paquebot Cancel Trinidad
			MV City of New York

MV City of New York was an American motor Passenger/ Cargo ship built in 1930 by Sun Shipbuiling & Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA for the American South Africa Line Inc., New York. She was on route from LOURENCO MARQUES for NEW YORK with a cargo of 6,612 tons of chrome ore, wood, wool, hides and asbestos when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-160 and sunk on the 29th March 1942. 26 persons lost from a total 144.

N/A			1938-10-17 Slogan Machine Cancel Nassau Bahamas
			SS GRIPSHOLM

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N/A			1940-04-01 Machine postmark New York NY
			SS WASHINGTON

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N/A		N/A	c 1941 Ships Marking
			SS SANTA ELISA

SS Santa Elisa was a refrigerated cargo ship built for the United States Maritime Commission by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey in 1941. Operated by the Grace Line, Santa Elisa was a member of Convoy WS 21S from Newport, England, for Malta as a part of "Operation Pedestal". After she straggled from the convoy, she was attacked and torpedoed by the Italian motor boats MAS 557 and 564 25 nautical miles (46 km) southeast of Cape Bon, Tunisia on on the night of 12/13 August 1942. MAS 557 strafed the vessel with her .51 Breda machine gun, killing four British army gunners, while the second motorboat launched a 450 mm torpedo that struck Santa Elisa on the starboard side near the No. 1 cargo hatch at about 05:17. The ship's cargo of aviation gasoline burst into flames. Santa Elisa eventually sank at approximately 07:17 on 13 August near position 36°20′N 11°28′E / 36.333°N 11.467°E / 36.333; 11.467Coordinates: 36°20′N 11°28′E / 36.333°N 11.467°E / 36.333; 11.467, and 28 survivors were rescued by HMS Penn and landed at Malta.
Cachet by Walter Czubay

N/A			1944-02-09 US Postal Service No. 1 Machine Cancel
			S/S JALAPA

V-Mail. From the Tom Kean collection.

N/A			1950-07-26 Sweden CDS
			M/S STOCKHOLM

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N/A			1952-06-13 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Church Street Station" New York NY
			Advertisement postcard

Grace Line - SS SANTA OLIVIA

N/A		N/A	1952-07-28 Paquebot postmark
			Maiden Voyage of M.V. EBOE

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N/A			1956-09-28 Capetown South Africa postmark
			Ocean Liner

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N/A			1956 Machine Cancel Southampton England
			SS UNITED STATES

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N/A			1956-07-07 Machine Cancel Havre De Grace MD
			M/V Flying A Washington

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N/A			1958-05-29 Machine Cancel Lisbon Portugal
			SS EXIRIA

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N/A			1958-04-18 Machine Cancel Southampton England
			SS LIBERTE

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N/A			1959-09-06 Double CDS Yokohama Japan
			SS PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

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N/A			1963-11-22 Double CDS Yokohama Japan
			SS PRESIDENT LINCOLN

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N/A		N/A	1964-09-11 PAQUEBOT Belfast Ireland
			SS AMERICAN PRODUCER

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N/A			1965-04-30 PAQUEBOT Italy
			SS EXPORT CHAMPION

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		N/A	c 1966 US Postmark, Chinese stamp
			MV ORIENTAL QUEEN

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N/A		N/A	1966-03-03 Norway Postmark
			SS OSLOFJORD

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N/A		N/A	1966-04-05 Southampton Machine Cancel Tonga CDS
			RMS CARONIA

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N/A		N/A	1966-11-05 Machine Cancel Miami Fl
			SS FLORIDA

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N/A		N/A	1967-07-18 Canadian Slogan Cancel
			SSS Flying Cloud

SSS = Sea Scout Ship

N/A		N/A	1967 CDS
			M/V HAR-CANAAN

Israel stamps issued in 1967

N/A		N/A	1968-08-26 Charleston SC Machine postmark
			SS IRISH SPRUCE

1957-1972

			1968-11-16 French postmark
			SS SEA WITCH

Built in 1968, destroyed June 2 1973 after a steering control broke and she rammed the SS Esso Brussels in New York Harbor.

N/A		N/A	1969-08-25 PAQUEBOT Ivory Coast
			SS AFRICAN CRESCENT

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N/A		N/A	1969-09-16 PAQUEBOT Portugal
			SS AFRICAN SUN

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N/A		N/A	1969-05-18 Cape Town South Africa Paquebot postmark
			M/V IRISH ASH

1957-1972

N/A		N/A	1969-09-25 USPO Machine Cancel Barrow AK
			S. S. Manhattan

Commercial oil tanker belonging to the Humble Oil Co. (now Exxon). In 1969 she made an experimental voyage through the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the North Slope of Alaska and on out through the Bering Strait, to see if it was feasible to bring out oil from the North Slope by tanker. The basic answer was "no," which is why we now have the pipeline.

N/A		N/A	1969-09-30 Ship Mail Section CDS PAQUEBOT Melbourne
			M/V Forresbank

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N/A		N/A	1973-02-05 Hobart Australian CDS
			SS SAMOA BEAR

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N/A			1973-09-20 Turkish CDS
			SS SOHIO INTREPID

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N/A		N/A	1974-07-12 USPS 4-bar Greenhurst NY
			Postal Ship "For Roligt" (For Fun)

Chautauque Lake Local Post

N/A		N/A	1975-02-18 Locy Type 2#
			M/V FALCON LADY

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N/A		N/A	1976-09-04 Dutch Cancel PAQUEBOT
			M/S FLEVOLAND

Netherlands

N/A		N/A	1976-07-28 USPS Machine Cancel PAQUEBOT Baltimore MD
			M/V General A. F. Cebesoy

Turkey

N/A		N/A	1977-02-08 Suffolk England
			SS STAG HOUND

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N/A		N/A	1978-06-16 Eureka CA Paquebot postmark
			M/V IRISH STAR

1970 -1978. - Joint venture with the Norwegian Star shipping company

N/A		N/A	1979-02-02 Coos Bay OR postmark
			M/V PARALLA

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N/A			1979-02-17 PAQUEBOT Larnaca, Cyprus
			SS EXPORT COURIER

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N/A		N/A	1980-08-22 PAQUEBOT Corner Brook, Newfoundland
			SS ORIANA

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N/A		N/A	1984-05-31 PAQUEBOT Everett WA
			M/V KEIFUMARU

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			1987-04-28 PAQUEBOT Long Beach CA
			SS Texaco Minnesota

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N/A		N/A	1999-03-02 PAQUEBOT
			SS PENNY

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N/A			1941-12-07 USPO Duplex Cancel Honokaa Hawaii
			Board of Health Employee Mail

Christmas card, closed with tape. "Released / By I.C.B. 220" marking on the back.

N/A			1941-12-07 USPO Duplex Cancel Honokaa Hawaii
			Board of Health Employee Mail

Christmas card, closed with tape. "Released / By I.C.B. 220" marking on the back.

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