Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

MV "Ocean Mail". 1955 Cover (letter enclosed) franked Canada 2c tied by Sanitarium P.O Ontario machine cancel, addressed to Penang, Malaya, the edges fire damaged, with the red cachet "DAMAGED IN SHIP FIRE / AT SEATTLE". The MV "Ocean Mail" collided with the MV "Arizona" on November 22nd, in the Colombia River. Whilst undergoing repairs on the 30th a fire broke out in the mail room, which was quickly extinguished, and the vessel resumed its voyage on December 1st. The Canadian fire damaged mail was off-loaded before it sailed and returned to Vancouver where the Post Office sorted it during the following week and applied the explanatory cachet. Photo on Page 44.
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