Lot 149 POSTAL HISTORY

SS NORWEGIAN - DAMAGED BY IMMERSION / IN SEA WATER. 1917 (Feb 21) violet boxed handstamp on cover (stamp floated off) Los Angeles (Lone Star Film Corp.) to London with two violet cachets and LONDON PAID cds. The S.S. Norwegian beached off the Irish coast on March 13th following an explosion probably caused by a mine, which killed five people.