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Wreck Cover 1855/63: 4 d. blue on white paper, a used pair (Pos. VI
6 ...mehr Wreck Cover 1855/63: 4 d. blue on white paper, a used pair (Pos. VI 6 A/B), margins clear to fine, used on 1856 Larkworthy correspondence cover from Kalk Bay to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia tied by CGH obliterators in black; the reverse with oval framed "KALK BAY" datestamp of despatch (March 12) in red, CAPE TOWN oval framed datestamp in red and CAPE TOWN / CAPE OF GOOD HOPE cds both of the same day. The cover travelled on the brig "Prairie" which arrived at the Cape on January 22, 1856, spending time in port and undergoing a change of Captains with James R. Caithness appointed as master for the onward leg of the voyage. The "Prairie" sailed on March 24th for Melbourne and she ran aground in a gale off Cape Otway, Victoria approaching Port Philip Bay and was dismasted and grounded on the Coast of Northern Tasmania on May 26th. She was later re-floated and repaired with the mail picked up by the "Titania" arriving at Melbourne on June 16, 1856 with reverse showing "SHIP LETTER / GPO MELBOURNE cds (June 19) in red. Rare - the sole recorded Wreck Cover bearing Cape Triangular adhesives. Note: The Master, James Ramsey Caithness, was an unlucky or perhaps incompetent mariner with six of the ships he was associated with coming to grief in dramatic style. In 1844 it was the schooner "Mary" in Algoa Bay, in 1848 the brig "Lady Leith" on Thunderbolt Reef, in 1851 the "Diadem" at Plettenberg Bay; in 1854 the "Sea Gull" in Table Bay and in April 1855 the tragic "Flying Dragon" was consumed by fire. There was one more disaster in 1856, not in South African waters but off Melbourne, when he was in command of the brigantine "Prairie".
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6 ...mehr Wreck Cover 1855/63: 4 d. blue on white paper, a used pair (Pos. VI 6 A/B), margins clear to fine, used on 1856 Larkworthy correspondence cover from Kalk Bay to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia tied by CGH obliterators in black; the reverse with oval framed "KALK BAY" datestamp of despatch (March 12) in red, CAPE TOWN oval framed datestamp in red and CAPE TOWN / CAPE OF GOOD HOPE cds both of the same day. The cover travelled on the brig "Prairie" which arrived at the Cape on January 22, 1856, spending time in port and undergoing a change of Captains with James R. Caithness appointed as master for the onward leg of the voyage. The "Prairie" sailed on March 24th for Melbourne and she ran aground in a gale off Cape Otway, Victoria approaching Port Philip Bay and was dismasted and grounded on the Coast of Northern Tasmania on May 26th. She was later re-floated and repaired with the mail picked up by the "Titania" arriving at Melbourne on June 16, 1856 with reverse showing "SHIP LETTER / GPO MELBOURNE cds (June 19) in red. Rare - the sole recorded Wreck Cover bearing Cape Triangular adhesives. Note: The Master, James Ramsey Caithness, was an unlucky or perhaps incompetent mariner with six of the ships he was associated with coming to grief in dramatic style. In 1844 it was the schooner "Mary" in Algoa Bay, in 1848 the brig "Lady Leith" on Thunderbolt Reef, in 1851 the "Diadem" at Plettenberg Bay; in 1854 the "Sea Gull" in Table Bay and in April 1855 the tragic "Flying Dragon" was consumed by fire. There was one more disaster in 1856, not in South African waters but off Melbourne, when he was in command of the brigantine "Prairie".
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