Page 39 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1913 ~ 29

TRANSIT MAIL
FROM TRISTAN DA CUNHA, VIA SOUTH GEORGIA

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1918 Tristan da Cunha Cover with type 1 cachet departed 24 April, aboard oil tanker SS Perth en route Liverpool to South
Georgia. Entering the mail system at Grytviken on 11 May, SG1 transit backstamped, the cover was carried by Salvesen
whale catcher Subra outbound that day in ballast for Buenos Aires for onward shipment thence to Capetown

Tristan mail with South Georgia transit cancels known 1918 to 1922 and in 1931, this May 1918 the earliest.

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1920 Cover, with type II cachet, taken on 25 May by Salvesen’s supply ship Pentaur ex Tristan da Cunha to South
Georgia, transit datestamp SG1, JU 4 20 struck on arrival. Onward by SS Karl, sailed 9 June for Buenos Aires with

one bag mail. Taxed “1½d FB” at Edinburgh, Foreign Branch, paid by GB dues, tied by 23 JY 20 datestamp
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