Page 55 - South Georgia

Postal History of South Georgia, 1929 ~ 37

UPU SURFACE MAIL
WHALING MAIL - GODTHUL HARBOUR
Bryde and Dahls Hvalfangereiskap A/s, a Norwegian company, processed their whale catches with off-shore
Floating Factory ships, Aviemore (1908 ~11); Admiralen (1909 ~ 10) and Thor I (1910 ~ 17, 1922 ~ 29) supported

with limited on shore facilities

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1929 Cover, at 2½d UPU rate, datestamped SG2, MR 5 29, enclosing a letter dated 4/3-29,
taken by FF Orwell returning to Norway, departing Grytviken 10 March 1929 with two bags of mail

Transit stamped Sandefjord, 18.IV.29
Thoralf Hystad worked on board the whale catcher Thor Senior feeding FF Thor I, anchored in Godthul Harbour,

and wrote not infrequently to his fiancée. Whenever Thor Senior returned to South Georgia
he would take the opportunity to mail his letters to Gudrun

Before the Thoralf Hystad - Gudrun Abrahamsen correspondence surfaced in 2013,
surviving mail from Godthul Harbour was unknown

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