CRASH / WRECK MAIL
1988 (Jan) French internal postcard aboard the Vickers Vanguard aircraft chartered by Aeropostale which crashed on take off at Toulouse. No casualties but @/3 rds of the mail was burnt. Cachet ³COURRIER RETARDÉ / SUITE ACCIDENT AÉROPOSTALE / DU 29-01-88² applied in red to mail in O.K. condition. £40

1939 cover from Malaya to UK with the adhesives washed off, struck with the two line cachet in red SALVAGED MAIL / EX. CENTURIA. (note error of spelling). The flying boat Centurion crashed on the Hoogly river near Calcutta. The 4 passengers & crew were rescued together with the majority of the mail. £30

1917 cover from U.K. to India with the adhesive washed off and struck with the oval framed ACCIDENT AT SEA. MONGOLIA, 23 6 17 in blackish violet. The Mongolia was a P&O steamer sunk by a mine on 23. 6. 1917, 58 miles from Bombay. £70

1885 cover from Belgium to USA with the adhesives washed off. On the reverse is the New York, USA Post Office label explaining the sinking of the Ship OREGON off Fire Island. A very unusual origin. £140

1944 (Nov) letter in bad condition carried on the Deutsche Luftahansa Focke-Wulf Condor flight from Berlin to Stockholm which crashed, curiously, after an attack by German military aircraft over the Baltic sea. Recovered mail to Sweden had an explanatory label attached and was enclosed in an Ambulance envelope. £60

1945 cover being part of the mail recovered from the S.S.Groningen IV sunk in the Ysselmeer in January 1945 as a result of a collision with the steamer Jan Nieveen and which was raised in September 1946. An official label attached to the reverse explained the delay. Scarce. £90

1916 cover from U.K. to Sweden carried on the S.S.Newton which suffered a fire on board, damaging the mail. A purple cachet of explanation was applied to the reverse. £90

1909 cover from Algeria to France showing the ORAN A ALGER TPO & having had the adhesive washed off by immersion in water. The cover is struck with the two line cachet NAUFRAGE DE LA VILLE D¹ALGER in black. £70

1938 (23 March) cover from Morocco to France per plane Ville de Toulouse which crashed in the Pyrenees, all being killed. The cachet in violet, CORRESPONDANCE AVION retardée et déteriorée par suite de l¹accident aérien survenu le 23 MARS 1938 was applied at Toulouse. £30

1943 (Feb) cover from New York to Sweden by Boeing 314 Yankee Clipper which crashed on landing on the Tagus river in Lisbon. 24 fatalities and 15 people were saved. An explanatory label in Swedish was applied in Stockholm on arrival. £45

1909 cover from Mustapha, Algeria to France with adhesives washed off. The cover is struck with the two line cachet in black NAUFRAGE DE LA VILLE D"ALGER. £55

1917 cover from UK to INDIA with the adhesive washed off. The reverse is struck with the oval framed ACCIDENT AT SEA / MONGOLIA / 23 6 17 handstamp in violet. £80

1954 (Aug) cover from Germany to USA by Air France Constellation. The cover somewhat singed and without adhesive was struck on the reverse with a 3-line cachet in purple Delay caused by Air / Mail Interruption near / Norwich Conn Aug 3 1954. No fatalities, some mail was saved. £40

1939 (Aug) cover from UK to Sweden carried aboard a Lockheed Electra of British Airways which caught fire near Copenhagen and crash landed in the sea. The pilot escaped, the five passengers were killed. The cover was forwarded in an ambulancecover with an explanatory note enclosed. £50