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Published: 2017-12-16 14:02:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 2186; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 23
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Vintage souvenir post cardWhite border era, circa about 1930
Unused
ANCHOR LINE, — T.S.S. "CALIFORNIA"
SS California was a British steam turbine ocean liner that was built in Glasgow in 1923 for Henderson Brothers, and destroyed in the North Atlantic by a Luftwaffe air attack in 1943. California carried passengers between Glasgow and New York via Derry and Boston, and in 1935 she was transferred to Anchor Line.
This postcard was printed in Scotland for Anchor Line "THE NATIONAL TOURS" and is a souvenir of an Easter Bermuda Cruise.
The reverse side has the red flag logo of The National Tours, and the Fifth Avenue New York address of the management company.
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bobbyz41 [2020-03-30 01:26:16 +0000 UTC]
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wildelf34 [2019-12-29 02:44:09 +0000 UTC]
Nice postcard, I have the sepia tone version of this liner, and the second California too. Hmm both would be lost in the wars, WW1 and WW2, maybe they needed to stop naming liners with this name, seems to cause them to sink. Sorta like other lines, one would sink, so they give the name to the next and something happens to it too, seems to be bad luck naming a second ship the name if the first one sank.
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Yesterdays-Paper In reply to grassa48 [2017-12-16 14:55:59 +0000 UTC]
aww, shuckies! I owe it all to deltiology - the hobby really is a fun way to learn history. There were three different passenger ships with the name SS California - I didn't know this until I started doing research on this card. Of the three, two of them met a horrific end in wars. The original California was torpedoed by a U-boat in 1917.
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