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Postal History of South Georgia, 1929 ~ 37

EXPEDITION MAIL
PELAGIC WHALING MAIL, 1931
Whaling technology advanced so that by mid 1920s Whaling Expeditions could deploy Floating Factory (FF)
ships pelagically in international waters free of any land services and without national control or taxation

FF ANGLO-NORSE II
Licensed by the Falkland Islands Government to fish pelagically off the South Sandwich Islands,

FF Anglo-Norse II completed two profitable seasons, 1929~30 and 1930~31,
with Edward Beveridge Binnie on board, appointed the Expedition Secretary

1931 Cover at 1d internal rate, probably transferred from FF Anglo-Norse II by an off-duty catcher on a mail run to
Grytviken, and there datestamped SG1, MR 7 31 was sent by Edward B Binnie

to his elder Brother, Thomas Binnie, Stanley; taken thence by SS Fleurus, logged inbound 2 April 1931

The first Anglo Norse ex Montcalm, built 1897, operated at the South Sandwich whaling ground for
1927~28 and 1928~29 seasons

The second Anglo Norse II, ex Maricopa built 1914, worked the same whaling ground for the next two seasons
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