Lot 93 POSTAL HISTORY

KINGSTONIAN - 1918 (11 April) DAMAGED BY IMMERSION IN SEA WATER boxed h/s in violet on obverse of cover with stamp washed off from Alexandria to Marseille, the cover is addressed to Holland and redirected. Sudan censor h/s on obverse and variety of transits on reverse incl Cairo, Jinja Uganda, Khartoum, White Nile and then the Steamer Kingstonian was badly damaged by German submarine U68, she was towed into Sardinia where the mail, about a fortnights correspondence from Egypt and Palestinian Front were offloaded. On leaving Sardinia the ship was again hit by a German U48 and sunk. Nineteen different types of handstamp have been recorded.